Telling facts and figures about the Project "Time for Leaders" bringing innovation to educational leadership in Lithuania

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Project “Time for Leaders”
TELLING FACTS & FIGURES
Rasa Šnipienė
Deputy Director of the Education Supply Centre, Head of the Project

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Implementation, project length
Initiators & promoters: Bureau of Strategic Programmes
of the Ministry of Education and Science of the
Republic of Lithuania (MoES)
Creators: 100 education specialists from all over Lithuania
representing all national education system levels
Implementing bodies:
• Administration team -16 persons from ESC, CSI, ISM
• Lithuanian and foreign consultants - 30 persons
• Coordinators of 15 municipalities – 15 persons
• Volunteers: lots
• Involved through public procurement: lots
Project length:
1 stage (document drafting): 2009 – 2011
2 stage(piloting activities of the1st stage): 2011 - 2015

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Target groups
Education professionals at all levels striving for self-
improvement and improvement of the education
system in Lithuania:
• school administration personnel
• teachers
• administration specialists in municipalities
• officials of the Ministry of Education and Science and
its subordinate institutions
• lecturers of universities
• education consultants
• heads of education self-government institutions and
associations as well as motivated participants

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Activity areas under the Project
Participants:
13 000 education specialists involved during the 1st
stage
26 000 education specialists involved during the 2nd
stage*
*The total is 32 000 of teachers in general education in Lithuania

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Advantages of the Project
• Everyone can be a leader, not only a head, an administrator or a manager.
• All activities are interrelated and complementary.
• Representatives from all levels (national, municipal, school) are involved in
all activities.
• The only project that has embraced all levels in education – from pre-school
to higher education.
• The idea of “leadership for learning”, i. e. “for the benefit of a child” is
gaining strength at all levels of the education system.
• Traditions of cooperation and consultation are being formed by means of
regular educational leadership forums and public consultations.
• Legislation is being studied and analyzed with the aim to identify legal acts or
provisions impeding our progress.
• Communicating and disseminating information about all activities.

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Project activities cover all Lithuania
Info: www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt
Note: “X r.” “X District”꞊

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Municipalities actively involved in different
activities under the Project on voluntary basis
No contribution was
made only by Rietavas,
Pagėgiai, Kalvarijos and
Visaginas municipalities
Info:
www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt

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15 piloting municipalities involved in the Project and dealing with their
own education problems: their teams are formed of representatives from
municipalities, education centres, schools and policy making bodies
Investment made by the Project
into each municipality:
• 2 years of process consultation
• 40 thous. LTL value support portfolios:
traineeship tours in Lithuania and abroad, trainings
• Formal “Educational Leadership” studies (for Master‘s degree)
• Non-formal “Educational Leadership” programme
• Remuneration for coordinators
The remaining municipalities are planned
to be involved in the Project in the 3rd stage
Info: www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt

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Traineeship tours in Lithuania by municipalities involved in the Project
*place of traineeship and number of
municipalities involved
Number of education specialists who
took part in traineeship tours in
Lithuania:
1. Druskininkaii – 9 persons
2. Kaišiadorys District – 19
persons
3. Kaunas – 25 persons
4. Šiauliai – 21 person
5. Kaunas District – 6 persons
6. Kelmė District– 23 persons
7. Klaipėda – 14 persons
8. Klaipėda District– 3 persons
9. Kupiškis District– 1 person
10. Mažeikiai District– 3 persons
11. Panevėžys – 42 persons
12. Prienai District– 15 persons
13. Utena District – 50 persons
14. Anykščiai District – 3 persons
15. Šiauliai District– 8 persons
Total: 242 persons
Info: www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt

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First student crop of the formal studies for Master’s degree in
“Educational Leadership” (81 student (73 graduates); 2012-2014)
National level: 20
MoES 6, NASE 1, CITE 1, EESF
4, EDC 5, NCSNEP 2, PSLC 1
School heads: 21
Deputy school heads: 8
73 education specialists
successfully defended their final
theses for Master’s degree and
were awarded diplomas
Info: www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt

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Second student crop of the formal studies for Master’s degree in
“Education Leadership” (73 students; 2013-2015)
National level: 8
CITE 1
EESF 4
EDC 2
ESC 1
School heads: 7
Deputy school heads: 10
Total number of applicants:137
Info: www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt

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Students of the non-formal programme “Educational
Leadership”: 280
National level: 19
School heads: 53
Deputy school heads: 66
Info: www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt

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Trained education consultants (52)
52 education consultants (360
applicants ) have completed the
General (3 modules) programme
and 1 out of 5 specialized
consultant training programmes
each, and took 3-cycle traineeships
Info: www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt

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Evidence of changes in careers of education
specialists who entered the formal “Educational
Leadership” study programme under the Project
“Time for Leaders”
• 154 persons (1st
and 2nd
student crop)
• Changes in a formal management position
• Changes in a non-formal management position
*”Formal position” means that a teacher, a deputy school head, a school head,
etc. becomes respectively a deputy school head, a school head (following a
competition), a head of an education centre of a municipality or a specialist
of a municipal education department, a university lecturer
*”Non-formal position” means that a person has been elected a head of a
methodical group, etc. at school, region, etc.

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Evidence of changes in careers of education
specialists who entered the non-formal “Educational
Leadership” study programme under the Project
“Time for Leaders”
• 280 persons
• Changes in a formal management position
• Changes in a non-formal management position
*”Formal position” means that a teacher, a deputy school head, a school head,
etc. becomes respectively a deputy school head, a school head (following a
competition), a head of an education centre of a municipality or a specialist
of a municipal education department, a university lecturer
*”Non-formal position” means that a person has been elected a head of a
methodical group, etc. at school, region, etc.

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Evidence of changes in careers of consultants
trained under the Project “Time for Leaders”
• 52 persons
• Changes in a formal management position
• Changes in a non-formal management position
*”Formal position” means that a teacher, a deputy school head, a school head,
etc. becomes respectively a deputy school head, a school head (following a
competition), a head of an education centre of a municipality or a specialist
of a municipal education department, a university lecturer
*”Non-formal position” means that a person has been elected a head of a
methodical group, etc. at school, region, etc.

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National educational leadership forums in 2013 and 2014
1st
forum:
February 2013
600 participants from 47
municipalities
2nd
forum:
March 2014
700participants from 56
municipalities
Info: www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt
“Social competence. Leadership. Sustainability”.

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Educational leadership forums in municipalities
27 took place in the municipalities
involved in the Project
1 took place in the municipality
not involved in the Project (Klaipėda munic.)
Total number: approx. 900 participants
Info: www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt

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Distribution of 9 translated, published
and presented to the education community books
2000 copies of the books were
published and distributed among
institutions of the national, municipal and school level.
1500 education specialists were participants
at presentations of the books.
Info: www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt

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Presentations of the procured books of 30 titles
in municipalities
• Books of 30 titles were procured
during the Project implementation.
• 150 presentations of the books
to the education community took place
all over Lithuania.
• Over 3000 representatives of the education
community attentded presentations.
Info: www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt

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Web page/virtual environment
• The total of 72 198 unique users visited 121 745 times the internet web site of the
Project in 2014
• On the average approximately 6 016 unique users visit the virtual environment
per month making 10 145 times of visiting the site
• At present we have1 392 subscribers to the Project newsletter. 50 newsletters
were sent to them in 2014.
• Today we have 2 765 friends on the social network “Facebook”
• Almost 200 interviews with leaders in education have been published on the site
since the launch of the Project
• 45 filmed episodes containing interviews with the Project initiators, creators and
involved participants have been placed on the site for the broad public since March
2012
• 15 presentations of books took place over three years and 19 hours of video
materials were made public on the site
• Monitoring of the Project up to 2015 is available at:
http://www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt/lt/apie-projekta/mes-iniasklaidoje

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Participation in events in Lithuania and abroad
•Nominants:
–at “Europos burės 2012”
–at the competition of the Best Project arranged by ESFA in 2012 (“Innovative
Idea”)
–at competition for Closer Cooperation among ESFA, MoES, MoF and incentives for
project implementers in 2013
•Assistants:
–at the conference “Leadership in Education” during the Lithuanian Presidency of
the Council of the European Union 2013 (as moderators)
–at the Exhibition “Mokykla” (“School”) 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 (as active
participants)
•Project presentations during events abroad:
- at the Conference “Rethinking Models of Professional Learning” in Birmingham (UK) in
2014
–at the School Leadership Symposium in 2013 in Zug (Switzerland)
–At the 25th
Conference of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and
Improvement in January 2012 in Malmö (Sweden)
–at the 24 Conference of the Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement
in 2011 in Limassol (Cyprus)
–at the 15th International Conference on Thinking 2011 “ICOT 2011” in Belfast
(Northern Ireland)
–At the Conference “Seizing Success 2010” in Birmingham (UK)
–At the COMENIUS network Conferences “Leading Ahead” in 2009, 2 010 and
2011 in Estonia, Italy and Spain

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Welcome to share ideas
• www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt
• rasa.snipiene@sac.smm.lt