THE TREASURE WITHIN

5^th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

STARTING FROM BASICS

CHANGE AGENCY FOR SCHOOL improvement

Portoroz, SLOVENIA, 22 and 23 september 2006

Overview of conference workshops:

1. Zuzana Benova (CZ) Working together, learning together

2. Cvetka Bizjak (SI) How to change teachers’ mental models

3. Karel Casaer (BE) Challenges for Special Needs Education in Europe

4. Felix Claus (BE) Creating Shared Meaning among Stakeholders

5. Simon Coffey (UK) Extending the comfort zone

6. Danuta Elsner (PL) A “road map” to change: how to make your way through the change process

7. Margaret Farren (IE) Action Research as a tool for implementing change

8. Bengt-Göte Freding & Joakim Lövgren (SE)) Let’s abolish schools:  Schooling for tomorrow, What schools for the future?

9. Bengt-Göte Freding & Joakim Lövgren (SE) Make your school more succesful: working with school climate surveys.

10. Kees Horsman (NL) Schools themselves: sustainable improvement in schools

11. Pieter Leenheer (NL) and Marc Van den Brande (BE) Superman, catwoman and Mr Universe: a workshop on change agents’ competences

12. Brigita Rupar (SI) Peer coaching: facilitating professional growth for teachers

13. Guido Vandevenne (BE) Milestones in managing complex change processes

14. Valentina Tornabene (IT) “European teacher Competences”: The European teacher as a change agent for inducing innovation within the school

15. Karine Van Thienen (BE) It wouldn’t work in my school. About crocodiles, crabs and sandbanks.

16. Karine Van Thienen (BE) I reflect therefore I learn. The river of change portfolio

17. Karel Binon(BE) A tool for self-evaluation in primary schools