The role of the school board in shaping a contemporary HR policy

An inspirational workshop for school administrators who want to work on a truly people-oriented personnel policy for their school, school group and/or school community.

As a school administrator, you are an employer and therefore ultimately responsible for HR policy. How do you actively focus on this as a director? As a director, how do you support your managers in developing a people-oriented and contemporary personnel policy? Because supporting and being supported is the key.

Why should you take this course now?
The recent report Priorities for Professionalism by the Committee of Wise Men, led by Dirk Van Damme, emphasizes the importance of installing a contemporary personnel policy with the aim and support of making the teaching profession more attractive, retaining and motivating teachers and professional growth and encourage support from schools.

• What are the dimensions of a comprehensive contemporary personnel policy?
• How do we deal with job satisfaction, leadership, age-conscious personnel policy, career policy, diversity, professionalization?
• What vision do we have on HR policy?
• How do we, as a board, shape a fully-fledged HR policy co-creatively with our school leaders?
• What is your role as a school administrator and therefore as an employer?
• How do you, as a school administrator, shape a contemporary and appreciative HR policy?
• How do you ensure that the school leaders within your school/school group and/or school community are sufficiently supported and have/are given the space to further grow and professionalize?
• What are the HR dimensions that matter and how do we develop them for our schools?
• What free space is there to draw up this policy; especially now that the Flemish government has recently made it possible to fill in the performance cycle differently?
• How do we as a school board respond adequately to dysfunctional employees?

Who is this program designed for?
This inspiration workshop is exclusively intended for (potential) school administrators of primary, secondary, special education, Centers for Adult Education and Centers for Basic Education. It is an added value that you, as a director, follow this inspiration workshop together with a director of your school/school group. We emphasize the delicate interplay between administrators and school leaders to co-creatively take on policy responsibility for HR policy.

Why choose this course?
You choose an inspiration workshop with a fascinating mix of theory and practice that will provide you with new insights, but which will also lead to an initial plan of action for your own HR policy.

Throughout the training we offer you a strong combination of inspiration and interaction. You can expect a balanced interplay between evidence-informed insights and immediately applicable tools.

Topics covered include:

• vision and frameworks within HR and link with the school's strategic policy;
• employer branding;
• job satisfaction – employee well-being;
• professionalization;
• psychological safety;
• dysfunctional employees;
• conversation cycle and professional dialogues;
• career policy;
• age-conscious personnel policy;
• typical HR frameworks for education.

After this education:

• you have a thorough basic knowledge of important dimensions for a school board in the field of contemporary HR policy for a school/school group/community;
• you have an initial plan of action as a board for a renewed HR policy;
• you have a better insight into the priority importance of a fully-fledged HR policy for your school/school group/community and its impact on learning gains among students and the well-being of students, employees and school leaders.

Who will guide you in this process?
Nancy Dedeurwaerder has been working in education for more than twenty years: as a teacher and internship supervisor, coordinator, pedagogical director and in recent years as general director of the RHIZO school group. Nancy also works as a process supervisor at domo de refontiro, where she guides schools on themes such as personnel policy, school leadership and strategic policy. Because everything is moving, an organization such as a school also has to keep up. Constantly looking for how new needs can be met more and better, that characterizes her efforts to the fullest. Values - not the issues of the day - are her compass. Nancy gives a lot of space to vulnerability. Those of others and her own. Only when there is room for what is not perfect - including gentleness - only then does a sense of security arise.