See also:
Educational Initiative - Municipal Intervention
Active Citizenship

Principal Training
In order to advance Israel’s education system, school principals must become the primary change agents. The purpose of IVN's principal training course is to develop the leadership and management skills of school principals in order to increase student social and academic achievement levels in Israel. The principal training course brings the best general management practices into the education world.

In order to make a successful transformation from general management practices into the field of education, careful adjustments need to be made that take into consideration the specific needs and characteristics of the education system. The IVN training program was constructed by a team of veteran school principals and senior hi-tech executives. IVN believes this course will help to develop the leadership and management skills of school principals as leaders of teaching and learning.

Since September 2004, a group of @30 principals from diverse backgrounds (Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouins, religious and secular, urbanites and those from rural communities including kibbutzim) have been taking part in this ambitious training program designed to give participants the methodology and tools necessary for their daily responsibilities. The program is unique in combining active learning with direct mentorship of the principals in their schools. Results from the first year of the program reflect that the course is meeting a crucial gap in training principals. The second year of the course is focusing on implementation of the lessons learned in each of their schools.

Partners: IVN designed the principal training program and received support from key partners including Checkpoint Software Technologies Ltd.

IVN Principal Training Program Chairman: Benny Levin

To view the Hebrew portal of the principal training course, click here.

Institute for School Leadership (ISL)
In order to create a sustainable systemic change in the way schools are managed and in the public appreciation of the key role of school principals in shaping the society, IVN, Yad Hanadiv and the Ministry of Education have recently launched a joint effort to cooperatively establish the Israel Institute for School Leadership (ISL). The Institute will serve as the professional home for school principals, as an arm of the Ministry of Education implementing its policies, and as a primary professional authority in the field of school leadership. The Institute will build and evolve the principals' leadership in teaching and learning, and develop their managerial skills as accountable education leaders who are a networked group of proud professionals.

The Institute will be responsible, in cooperation with the institutes for higher education in Israel, for the training and development of principals as educational leaders, versed in advanced management techniques, leading educational activities in schools towards the realization of the school’s vision, values and goals, making optimal use of resources in order to bring them effectively to bear on teaching and learning.

The Institute will develop a comprehensive concept of school leadership, and address the varying needs of principals as they progress along their career path. The Institute will cultivate the community of principals as learning, sharing, innovating, influential professional leaders in the Israeli education system.

IVN ISL Chairman: Gidi Beery

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