| THE CYPRUS EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: AN OVERVIEW | |
| Day 1: Friday 20th of May 2022 | |
| 9:30 | Keynote presentation |
| Kyriakos Kokkinos, Deputy Minister to the President for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy, Cyprus Nurturing our Youth Generation, Redefining the Role of Education | |
| 11:15 | Keynote presentations |
| 11:15 – 12:00 Petros Pashiardis, Professor of Educational Leadership, Rector of the Open University of Cyprus & Stefan Brauckmann- Sajkiewicz, Professor for quality development and quality assurance in education, Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, AUSTRIA Leadership in times of uncertainty – an edupreneurial perspective 12:00 – 12:45 Kiki Messiou, Professor of Education at the University of Southampton, UK Student-teacher dialogues to promote inclusion: implications for school leaders | |
| 14:30 | Keynote presentation |
| 14:30 – 15:15 Ann Phoenix, Thomas Coram research Unit, Social Research Institute, UCL Institute of Education School leadership with 2020 vision: Negotiating multiple inequalities | |
| 16:00 | Parallel Sessions |
| 16:00 – 17:30 1. Sustainable School Leadership Career and Lifelong Development 2. Vision for the 21st century School: Skills, Values, Knowledge and Competencies 3. Innovation and Technological Advances for Education 4. Including diversity: Leading Schools for Equity and Justice 5. School Communities as Learning Organizations 6. Values, Ethics and Sustainable Leadership | |
| Day 2: Saturday, 21st of May 2022 | |
| 9:05 | Keynote presentations |
| 9:05 – 9:50 Ariel Levy, General Director Joint -Ashalim at JDC Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Social Mobility & the Role of School Leadership 9:50 – 10:35 Michalinos Zembylas, Prof. of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies Open University of Cyprus, Honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa, and Adjunct Professor at the University of South Australia Social Justice Leadership in Europe’s Multicultural Schools: Lessons from Cyprus | |
| Coffee break (10:35 – 11:30) | |
| 11:30 | Pre-recorded video speech by Microsoft Diana Ghazaryan, Senior Industry Executive in K12 Education, Microsoft Central Eastern Europe Navigating the complexity of transformation: a guide for school leaders through the Education Transformation Framework |
| 11:45 | Keynote presentations |
| 11:45 – 12:30 Tanja Bastianic, The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Empowering School Leaders through comparative data and peer-learning: the case of PISA for Schools 12:30 – 13:15 Mika Risku, Head of Institute of Educational Leadership, University of Jyväskylä, FINLAND SURE FIRE claims principals are Finland’s most important leaders | |
| Lunch (13:15 – 15:00) | |
| 15:00 | Keynote presentation |
| 15:00 – 15:45 Michael Paul Bottery, Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull, England Educational Leadership in a World of Covert Threats: the need for a greater stewardship focus | |
| 15:45 | Closing the Conference and speech by ESHA president |
| 16:00 | END of the Conference Works |
Parallel Sessions’ Presentations (Friday 20th of May 2022, 16:00)
| 1 | Sustainable School Leadership Career and Lifelong Development |
| Mary Nihill, National Director of The Centre for School Leadership (CSL), Ireland: Sharing the Lead – Sharing the Load – developing middle leadership capacity in Irish schools Pavlina Hadjitheodoulou Loizidou, Head of In-service Teacher Training Department Cyprus Pedagogical Institute: The power of leadership in the teacher professional learning program of the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute: an (un)easy relationship | |
| 2 | Vision for the 21st century School: Skill, Values, Knowledge and Competencies |
| Kasper Myding, Nordic Schools – education consultants: Leading And Teaching The Nordic Way. Happy, skilled and academically performing teachers and students Koos Stienstra, Director of the academy of Healthcare and Education, University of Groningen Netherlands: Positive Education; development and well-being – the unbreakable relationship | |
| 3 | Innovation and Technological advances for Education |
| Charalambos Vrasidas, Executive Director, CARDET – Professor of learning Innovations and policy, University of Nicosia: Digital Transformation and School Leadership Nansia Kyriakou, Frederick University, Cyprus: Ηow have L2 teaching and learning spaces been transformed from the aftermath of the Covid-19 Pandemic? | |
| 4 | Including diversity: Leading schools for equity and justice |
| Peter Kelly, Associate Professor (Reader) in Comparative Education, University of Plymouth, UK: Pluralism and school leadership in times of uncertainty Luca Janka Laszlo, ESHA consultant: ChildUp, Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as a way of Upgrading policies of Participation https://www.child-up.eu/project-outcomes/ | |
| 5 | School Communities as learning organisations |
| Kristian H. Haugen, Professor emeritus at the UiT, The Arctic Univeristy of Norway: I want to do something else to be a good leader! A study of everyday life of Norwegian school leaders Loes van Wessum, Associate Professor Leadership in Education, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands: Leading a learning school | |
| 6 | Values, ethics and sustainable leadership |
| Andy Mellor, National Wellbeing Director for Schools Advisory Service and Strategic Lead for the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools at Leeds Beckett University: Whole School Wellbeing – The What, The Why and The How Eszter Salamon, Director, Parents International and Education Consultant, ESHA, Leveraging parents’ experiences during school closure for renewing education |