International Symposium

2nd March 2022

Policy and Practice

Supporting Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Leadership in Schools (CRELES)

Cases Across European Frontiers

Introduction and Background

This hybrid symposium hosted by the University of Salamanca in collaboration with EQI - The Centre for Evaluation Quality and Inspection DCU Institute of Education, Moscow City University and Johannes Kepler University is derived from a three-year Erasmus plus European Union funded project entitled ‘Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Leadership in Schools’ (CRELES) that commenced in September 2019 and concludes in September 2022. The symposium focuses on the support and strategies needed in all levels of school leadership in order to facilitate the needs of culturally diverse student populations.

The symposium is free to attend and consists of the presentation and exposition of a series of research papers, workshops and resources derived from the project.

This symposium will be of interest to Teachers, School Leaders, Teacher Educators, Researchers, Initial Teacher Education Students/Institutions, Ministries and Directorates of Education as well as Trans-National Organisations.

If you are attending the event online you can register for the event at the following Link

The conference organising committee look forward to welcoming you to the event.

Agenda in Spanish Time

09.30 – 10.00

Registration

10.00 – 11.00

Welcome Address

José Miguel Mateos Roco - Vice-Rector, Vicerrectorado de Investigación y Transferencia, University of Salamanca

María José Rodríguez Conde - Vice-Rector, Vicerrectorado de Calidad y Enseñanzas de Grado, University of Salamanca

Keynote Address 1: School Leadership in Spain within the LOMLOE legislative framework - El liderazgo directivo en España en el marco legislativo de la LOMLOE

Ángel Miguel Morín Ramos - Educational Director for the province of Salamanca, Junta de Castilla y León

Keynote Address 2: Educational Leadership for Social Justice - Liderazgo educativo para la Justicia social

Francisco Javier Murillo Torrecilla - Director of the UNESCO Chair in Education for Social Justice, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Keynote Address 3: Introduction and Background to CReLES - The increasingly central importance of Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Leadership in Schools

Martin Brown - CReLES Project coordinator, EQI, School of Policy and Practice, DCU Institute of Education

11.00 – 11.15

Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.15

Exploring Culturally Responsive Leadership in Four European Countries – Austria, Ireland, Russia and Spain

Sarah Gardezi - EQI, DCU Institute of Education

A Comparative School-based Survey of Culturally Responsive Practices in Ireland, Austria, Spain and Russia

Igor Shiyan - Moscow City University

Case study analysis of Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Leadership in four European Countries

María José Rodríguez Conde and Lourdes Sancho Otero – University of Salamanca

Culturally Responsive Leadership in Schools. A Conceptual Framework

Sieglinde Fulterer and Barbara Herzog-Punzenberger - Johannes Kepler University

12.15 – 12.45

Questions from the audience to the CReLES team

Moderator: Joe O’Hara, EQI, School of Policy and Practice, DCU Institute of Education

Concluding remarks and CReLES Moving Forward

Martin Brown - EQI, School of Policy and Practice, DCU Institute of Education

12.45 – 13.00

Close of conference

Valentina Zangrando - University of Salamanca