Module 4: Our Shared Leadership Action Plan

Looking into the future

Think about the proposal plan you are about to draft. Reflect upon and answer the following questions How do you see your school reality changing according to the plan you will draft? How can the vision and the process of evidence gathering, planning and implementing shared leadership be sustainable over time? How can you engage your colleagues in the plan you will draft?

I hope my plan will be a turning point in my school, so that the mentality of teachers changes. With this plan, I hope we have a better collaboration, the formal leaders along with the teachers create a sustainable and shared vision for the school and students and all colleagues be comitted to this.

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Examples of action plan

We know you are eager to start drafting your school’s action plan, but we thought it might be useful for you to see an example of an action plan:

Action plan example video

Please find here the action plan drafted by ITST Gentileschi school, Milan, Italy, and here, the peer review they have received from RHIZO Lyceum OLV Vlaanderen, Kortrijk, Belgium. These documents will be explained in the video, however, we suggest that you download them and read them carefully so you’ll have a better understanding of the video.

We hope you found the example of an action plan we’ve provided interesting and inspiring.

We thought it might be useful for you to see some examples of real schools across Europe. Let’s check out the following video to see how schools drafted their action plan and what we found interesting in these examples.

Please note that your action plan proposal might be completely different and include other goals and outcomes as it needs to be adapted to your school vision, data, and circumstances.

Below you can find peer reviews of two other examples of action plans. 

The first action plan was created by Provil Lommel, Secondary School in Belgium. Click here to view a peer review.

The second action plan was created by IES Los Sauces, High School in Spain. Click here to view a peer review.

Please note that in the examples above and in the video, peer assessment was done in a separate document (the rubric document). However, since the rubric you will be using to assess your peers is a built-in, interactive feature of this platform, you will not have to download or upload any rubric documents during the Peer-to-peer Activity towards the end of this course.

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Analysis and reflection

In the previous section you saw some interesting examples of action plans and their assessments, what do you think about the action plans presented above? Please keep in mind that each school is different and what might work in those schools might be irrelevant in your school, this is why we ask you to reflect on the following: - what did you find interesting and inspiring in these examples of action plans - what is similar and can be adapted in your school? - what would you suggest to do differently? And why?

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I find interesting and inspiring these examples of action plans. There is no ideal action plan, given the different characteristics of each school. However, we must share these experiences. Only with a broad vision and knowledge can new tools be created.