This document summarizes the activities of the 2009-2014 project "Leader's Time" in Lithuania. The project aimed to develop leadership in education by creating an infrastructure to support leaders, promoting autonomy of schools, and building leadership competencies. Key activities included developing consultancy programs, school leadership models, formal and informal study programs on leadership, and conducting longitudinal research on leadership development. The project also engaged in translating literature, attending international conferences, and establishing partnerships to encourage school leadership.

1. dr. Rita Dukynaitė
Rasa Šnipienė
Ričardas Ališauskas
www.lyderiulaikas.smm.lt /en
Duration: 2009 – 2014

2. Definition of a Leader
• Not a principal of the school
• Anybody can be a leader in his
working place

3. How is leadership encouraged?
Leaders are not produced,
but an environment of secure (safe) risk
is created for leaders to take
responsibility, to use external support,
and to become support to others

4. Ideology
„Firstly, a school should become not an
object, which is ruled by somebody from
outside, but a subject – player, with its
own face, traditions, pulse (pace).“
habil dr. Meilė Lukšienė
Lietuvos švietimo reformos gairės, 1993

5. Target groups
• Potential school principals
• School principals
• Deputy principals
• Other school middle and low level leaders
• Local education staff
• National education staff
• Trainers and consultants from:
– Other target groups
– Universities
– National education institutions

6. Goal of the project
• To form the basis for a support
infrastructure for leaders in education
• To encourage the autonomy of education
community

7. Aims of the project
• to develop a market of consultancy services
responsive to the needs and opportunities of
education entities:
• To promote decentralization of education
management
• to provide conditions for a single and
integrated system for the development of the
competences of leaders at all levels

8. People
Studies (formal Career
and informal) (secondment)
Technologies Consultations
(Mng models) (face to face, Leadership
on-line)
Science
(research, Partnership
studies) (networks,
links)
Organisation

9. Results of 2009-2011
CONSULTANCY - support to school:
• a model of education consultancy services is designed
• six training programs for education consultants are prepared
• a model for the preparation and implementation of the virtual environment
is developed
DECENTRALIZATION - support to school:
• a description of the proposed school leadership models is prepared
COMPETENCES - support to an individual:
• a formal university study program (10 modules) is developed
• a non-formal study program is developed
• a model for the implementation of the non-formal study program is
designed
• methodology and instruments for longitudinal research of the changes in
the manifestations of leadership in Lithuania are prepared and longitudinal
research is carried out

10. • Per 60 000 • Per 1000
nuolatinių projekto
svetainės gerbėjų
lankytojų Facebook
• Didžiausias
aktyvumas
apie 400-500
lankytojų per
dieną
konferencijų
metu.

11. Extra activities 2009-2011
• Translation of 6 books, authors: P. Drucker, A. Haris, C.
Glickman, Linda Lambert, -Robert Marzano, Timothy Waters
and Brian McNulty-, Douglas Griffin
• Translations of articles from foreign languales
• 15 titles of books on leadership in Lithuanian procured and introduced at
regional educational centres, filmed
• Attendance of three conferences: Annual Leadership Conf in GB; ICSEI
2011 Congress (International forum); ICOT 2011 Conf: Developing a
Culture of Good Thinking (International forum), presentations at national
level
• COMENIUS network: Conf in Tallinn, Bolzano, Material on pre and in
service training of principals from 26 countries
• Study visits

12. Activities of 2011 - 2014
Piloting of the results of Stage 1
• Leadership models with 15 municipalities and 75 schools
• 75 students studing at the university, Leadership program
• Studies following a non-formal program
• 9 more consultancy programs
• Redesigning of the legal system to support leadership
• Two forums with 300 participants each
• Two more longitudinal researches
• PR of all the activities of the project (filming and documenting)
• Translation of 3 more books
• Translations of articles from foreign languages
• 15 titles of books more on leadership in Lithuanian with presentations and filming
• Attendance of three conferences: presentations at national level
• COMENIUS network: Conf in Leon, finalization of the activities
• Study visits