International Jesuit Education Leadership Program

the program elaborated by the Society of Jesus and run by the Arrupe Center in cooperation with European Comitee for Catholic Education, Socires Foundation and MAGIS Foundation.

CURRENT SESSIONS

First session: July 9-28, 2007

Second session: July 11-30, 2008

IJELP Network Conference: July 8-12, 2009

FORMAT of the PROGRAM

In July 9, 2007 the International Jesuit Education Leadership Program for Central and Eastern Europe started for the sixth time.

The first session was held in Warsaw in the European Center for Communication and Culture from July 9 to July 28, 2007.

In September all participants began their internship in their own schools implementing what they learned.

After finishing one-year internship all participants will come back to Warsaw (July, 2008) to continue the program.

PROGRAM aim: Preparation of leaders able to inspire and lead educational changes in their own countries, educational leaders who will be motivated to continuous professional, social and spiritual growth. Courses we offer are rooted in very rich and long tradition of Catholic and Jesuit education and integrates the newest methods of teaching and administering schools with existential, social and spiritual dimension of education.

PROGRAM official language: English

PROGRAM trainers team: Alina Gutauskiene (Lithuania), Bożena Prątnicka (Polska), Eraldo Cacchione SJ (Italy), Artur Kołodziejczyk SJ (Poland), Wojciech Żmudziński SJ (Poland). Invited trainers: Vincent Duminuco SJ (USA), Thomas Roach SJ (USA), Fernando de la Puente SJ (Spain), Jack Podsiadlo SJ (USA), Eric Bloemkolk (Holand).

PROGRAM participants: School headmasters, leaders of school departments, teachers supervisors, mentors, teachers from Jesuit and other Catholic schools from Europe.

Previous experience: Program was born from the International Jesuit Education Leadership Project for Central and Eastern Europe which has been established in 1996 and offered to Jesuit schools since 1998. In ELF the main curriculum of the course is based on the Jesuit Education Leadership Program. As in previous years all participants from the post Communist countries are exempt from the course fee thanks to our donors. Since 1998 we trained headmasters and teachers from Russia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Malta, Slovenia, Croatia, Belarus, Czech Republic, Italy, Egypt, Moldova, Albania, Ukraine, Romania, Norway.

First session (first July) take place in Warsaw (ECCC) and prepare the participants for one-year internship in their own countries.

Internship: during one-year internship participants receive professional support through on place supervision. At the same time all participants have an access to resource center on the website. Trough the Internet they are invited to continue to share their experience and they receive needed materials and instructions.

Second session: (second July) take place also in Warsaw (ECCC) and focus on sharing internship experience and practical study of leadership skills, administration, change process, staff development, long range planning and evaluation.

Contact: centrum@arrupe.org