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Welcome to the website of the international Conference for School Effectiveness, School Improvement, School Management. The School Leadership Symposium (SLS) from September 8-10, 2011 will be held at University of Teacher Education of Central Switzerland (PHZ) in Zug. The conference topic is: “Learning Communities: Networked Systems and System Leadership”.

The Symposium is hosted by the Institute for the Management and Economics of Education (IBB), University of Teacher Education of Central Switzerland (PHZ) Zug, in cooperation with Jacobs Foundation und "Carl Link – einer Marke von Wolters Kluwer Deutschland" and further partners.

Target groups are:

school leaders/principals/head teachers
vice principals/deputies
members of the senior management team
members of the school development team
teachers interested in school effectiveness, school improvement, school management
representatives of school leader associations
representatives of training centres
representatives of educational authorities
representatives of ministries
academics working in the fields of school effectiveness, school improvement, school management, education administration/management/leadership
representatives of parents’ associations
representatives of community authorities
representatives of support institutions
representatives of school and business partnership
representatives of foundations
representatives of publishing houses
representatives of social politics and social
welfare administration
representatives of non school related associations
and organisations
representatives of parents' associations

The International Seminar (IS) will take place from September 7-8, 2011. It is the Pre-Conference with international guests, where hot and critical issues for schools and school leadership in different countries will be presented and discussed. Information about the Swiss school systems will be provided. Moreover, the participants will visit schools of Central Switzerland.

The Main Conference from September 8-10, 2011 focuses on Networked Systems and System Leadership as Learning Communities. In the keynote speeches, symposia, and workshops current challenges in the fields of school effectiveness, school improvement, and school management will be discussed. The core idea is to share ideas, knowledge, and experiences.

‚Networked systems‘ (in German: Kooperative Bildungslandschaften) are characterized by a concept that aims to link institutions of education more closely and increase cross-institutional cooperation, thus providing better and more varied chances for the education of children and youths.

In these networked systems, on the one hand ‘vertical’ cooperation is realized among the relevant institutions for the sake of supporting the children’s smooth transition from kindergarden/pre-school to primary school and from there to secondary and vocational schooling. On the other hand, ‘horizontal’ cooperation in terms of ‘opening’ the institutions of education in the municipality is essential, since for supporting a solid development of the young people’s personalities and imparting social competencies to them, it is necessary that all actors involved cooperate: schools, youth welfare services, youth associations, sports clubs, etc.

For the School Leadership Symposium 2011, it is a pleasure to welcome participants from various countries. Numerous speakers and presenters will provide revealing information and lead interesting discussions.

Around the Symposium’s sessions, there will be a rich offer of cultural and social activities. Additionally, there are the fantastic landscape and the cultural centres of Central Switzerland, with places to see from A as in the “Alps”, e.g. the nearby Rigi mountain with its gorgeous view L as in “Lucerne” with the Music Festival at the beginning of September, and Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstättersee) with the „Rütliwiese“, where historically Switzerland was founded, to Z as in “Zurich”, the business city with its international atmosphere.

The conference language is English. The IS will be entirely in English. At the SLS, simultaneous interpretation will be provided for the keynote speeches that are given in German.

Further information about the conference (conference programme, registration, call for papers) will be available at the website:
www.EduLead.com

The School Leadership Symposium 2011 follows the tradition of the events organized by Prof. Huber in the last years: the School Leadership Symposium 2004 in Bamberg, the International Seminars 2004, 2005 und 2006 in Erfurt, the School Leadership Symposium 2006 in Erfurt, and the International Seminars 2009 and School Leadership Symposium 2009 in Zug.

For your further information you find videos of the School Leadership Symposium (SLS) 2009 and the International Seminar (IS) 2009 on our website:
http://www.edulead.com/2009/videos.htm