OSOS Summer School 2019

Join the OSOS Summer School 2019 and set the path for your school to achieve the higher levels of openness by building lasting partnerships with 1000 OSOS schools across Europe and by engaging your local community.

The OSOS Summer School aims to offer a high-impact and transformative experience in personal and organizational level.  Contributing to your own professional development, we will provide you significant insights and tools to implement the necessary changes and with the intervention skills to best plan and then diffuse innovation in your own school, helping it evolve to an Open Schooling Environment, establishing Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) principles.

During the OSOS Summer School, personal and individualized support, in addition to the provision to the suite of supporting tools, will empower you to engage in innovative practices. Instead of suggesting a one‐fits‐all approach to the forms and types of pilot activities, you will learn how to choose existing or design new types of school based activities and accelerators addressing the curriculum areas where you believe that innovation is demanded.

The OSOS Summer School will provide you with a powerful framework to engage, discuss and explore:

• how your school needs to evolve, transform or reinvent itself, according to the innovation level it is already reached:
  • Innovation & openness for beginners: from individual efforts to holistic action plans
  • Introducing innovation to competent schools: from essential change to acceleration
  • From innovative schools to RRI‐enriched learning commons
• how your school will facilitate open, more effective and efficient co‐design, co‐creation, and use of educational content (both from formal and informal providers), tools and services for personalized learning and teaching
• how your school can become an innovation incubator and accelerator

The OSOS Summer School adopts a learning in action methodology and offers you the opportunity to identify, explore and overcome the challenges of leadership and management in a constantly changing educational environment.

Through this course you will gain valuable insights on how to:

• Analyse the needs of your school,
• Create lasting supporting structures for your school
• Review your teachers’ education, including CPD available, to ensure it addresses leadership competences
• Develop the culture, structures and conditions to facilitate dialogue, collaboration and knowledge exchange among your school’s community and internal stakeholders
• Promote & Collaborate with other schools, parents, higher education institutions and research centres and other external stakeholders
• Develop a strategy for dealing with resistance to change
• Reflect on the progress of organizational changes
• Create your School Development Plan and be prepared for your Erasmus+ proposal