International Successful School Leadership Conference

International Successful School Leadership Conference

May 31 - June 3, 2015

Dear ISSPP Colleague,

We are pleased to invite you, as a researcher / school leader affiliated with the International Successful School Principals Project (ISSPP), to attend and participate in this international conference. The conference will focus on national and international research on case studies of successful schools and successful leadership developed by scholars in the ISSPP project.

The conference is being organized by a consortium of Spanish research teams participants in the ISSPP network and hosted by the Faculty of Education, Universidad de Sevilla. As you can see in the attached Conference program, in addition to the regular conference activities, there will be opportunities to visit Seville area schools on Tuesday, June 2nd.

A small registration fee of euro 100 will be charged to help defray conference costs (breaks and lunch catering, transportation to and from the schools, welcome dinner, etc). Conference participants will also be responsible for all travel, evening meals, and accommodation. Housing can be reserved at the conference rate in two different hotels (see below). Both of them are at walking distance (2-8 minutes) from the Conference venue. Please contact Nina Hidalgo() for further details about the conference program and arrangements.

This conference follows the highly successful international meetings of the ISSPP held in Nottingham, Boston and Umeå. It will provide a unique opportunity to share and debate the international research findings of this project about successful school principalship with colleagues from around the world.

We look forward to seeing you in Seville.

The 2015 ISSPP Seville Conference Planning Committee

Julián López-Yáñez, Universidad de Sevilla

Marita Sánchez-Moreno, Universidad de Sevilla

Javier Murillo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Reyes Hernández, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Nina Hidalgo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Antonio Bolívar, Universidad de Granada

Cristina Moral, Universidad de Granada

José Manuel Coronel, Universidad de Huelva

Inmaculada González, Universidad de Huelva

María Teresa González, Universidad de Murcia

ISSPP 2015 Conference Planning. University of Seville, Spain

Sunday, May 31
Hotel Check-in
20.30 – Welcome Dinner / Monday, June 1
8:00 Registration Opens
9:00 – 9:45 Opening – Conference welcome & overview of ISSPP progress and achievements
9:45 – 11:15 Concurrent panels (2 to 4)
11:15 –11:45 Break
11:45 – 12:45 Keynote speech # 1
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 15:15 Focus Group Panels: Practitioners Talk about Leadership Development
15:15 –15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:00 Case studies
20:30 – 22:30 Dinner on your own / Tuesday, June 2
9:00 – 14:00 School tours
15:00 – 15:45 School Debriefing
16:00 – 17:00 Keynote speech # 2
20:30 – 22:30 Conference Dinner / Wednesday, June 3
9:00 – 9:45 ISSPP overview
9:45 – 11:15 Concurrent panels (2 to 4)
11:15 – 11:45 Break
11:45 – 13:15 Next steps forward and General Conference closing
13:15 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 19:00 ISSPP Research Team Meeting

Venue information

Faculty of Education /

Universidad de Sevilla /

Address: Calle Pirotecnia s/n - 41013 Sevilla, Spain

The Faculty of Education in Ramón y Cajal Campus and surroundings with recommended restaurants

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The hotels and the Faculty of Education in the city centre area

Accommodation:

Hotel NH Collection Sevilla, Spain

Address: Avda. Diego Martínez Barrio, 8 - 41013 Seville

Double room - single use: 64.26€ - taxes and breakfast included

Double room - double use: 73.26€ - taxes and breakfast included

Booking by email:

Booking by phone: +34 954 54 85 00, option 2 “speaking with the hotel”

(Please indicate the booking reference “BF9498441”)

Hotel Meliá Sevilla, Spain

Address: C/ Doctor Pedro Castro, 1 - 41004 Seville

Double room - single use: 97.9€ - taxes and breakfast included

Double room - double use: 108.9€ - taxes and breakfast included

Booking by email: (please fill in and send the attached reservation request)

Phone: +34 954 537084 Fax:+34 954 537956

In order to guarantee both availability and conference rates, bookings should be made earlier than May 5th 2015

Conference dinners:

• The Welcome dinner (May 31th) is included in the registration fee.
• The Conference dinner (June 2nd) is offered for all the participants with a cost of euro 35 (meal and drinks included) and has to be pre-paid together with the registration fee by those who want to attend.
• The rest of the dinners are on participants own.

Registration procedure:

* First step: Transferring euro 100 (euro 135 if you are going to attend the Conference dinner) to the account below:

ACCOUNT HOLDER: Nina Hidalgo

ACCOUNT INFORMATION - IBAN: ES49-0049-6192-1122-1611-1421

CONCEPT: ISSPP Sevilla

BANK BIC/SWIFT: BSCHESMM

BANK: Banco de Santander

ADRESS: Avda. de la Enramadilla, 1 - 41001 Sevilla

* Second step: Please, fill-in and send the registration form (last page) to Nina Hidalgo () with a copy of the bank transfer receipt:

Please do not forget booking accommodation on your own as soon as possible.

Call for contributions:

ISSPP 2015 Conference participants are called to contribute to any of the conference activities including:

Concurrent panels: Advances in the current research strand of ISSPP are welcomed. Country teams participating in research case studies under ISSPP guidelines are called to send contributions about their advances and conclusions

Focus group panels: The purpose of this activity is to set up a discussion between practitioners and academics about relevant issues of the leadership practice in schools, including:

School improvement and professional development: school capacity of change, school results, innovative experiences, school as a professional community, collaboration cultures, etc.

Diversity and multiculturalism in schools: experiences from schools with a high multicultural attendanceand/or placed in disadvantaged contexts, etc.

School - school community relationships: family involvement and participation, learning communities, etc.

Both, practitioners and academics are welcomed to joint one of the three focus groups panels. The conference planning committee will select five participants and one chair in each panel. The panel chair will propose a tentative agenda for discussion previously to the session.

Case studies: Meaningful case reports of relevant practices of leadership and school improvement are welcomed. Practitioners are expected to be the contributors in this activity. They will have the opportunity to discuss their experiences with other colleagues and researchers as well. Two cases will be addressed in each session. At least three parallel sessions are foreseen (six case studies in total). Each case study will count on 20 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussion.

IMPORTANT: Concurrent panels and Case studies contributors are claimed to submit an abstract of no more of 1200 words before April 15th 2015

International Successful School Leadership Conference

May 31 - June 3, 2015

Registration form:

First name:
Family name:
Institution:
City / Country:
Position:
Do you expect to submit/present any contribution? (Deadline: April 15th 2015) Please erase the wrong answer:
- Concurrent panels / YES/NO
- Focus group panels / YES/NO / Panel:
- Case studies / YES/NO
Will you attend the Conference dinners?
- Welcome dinner (May 31th) / YES/NO
- Conference dinner (June 2nd, Please, add 35  to the registration fee. / YES/NO
- Do you have any food allergy?
Please specify if YES: / YES/NO