The training in the 'School of Educational Managers' program for school principals, heads of state educational institutions, and startup founders concluded with new meanings, approaches, and practices.

Over 4 months, participants worked on forming a panoramic vision of the education system, familiarized themselves with the portrait of a modern manager, and how a leader can influence the results and behavior of the system. Even when at the beginning of the program, it seemed to the attendees that the heavy bureaucratic system could not be moved, after five modules, their thoughts took on a different hue. There was an understanding of partnership in the educational process and the roles of each participant in it, mastering new technologies, and developing skills for forming educational teams. Teams, not collectives.

Each participant came to the School of Educational Managers with their own challenge or task: lack of management skills, excessive teacher workload, burnout, lack of institutional culture, or misunderstanding of what and for whom my school is.

The training concluded with the presentation of their own project idea for the development of their educational system: with a formed mission and vision, defined tasks, outlined problems, and plans for their resolution. The thinking in terms of 'collective', 'instruction' has now changed to 'team' and 'idea' — this is a significant step forward both for the school leader and the educational system they are in.

And certainly, the greatest value of any training is its results. Each participant has their own: someone understood approaches to working with the collective depending on the roles people are in; someone developed a step-by-step strategy for school development involving patrons and forming long-term relationships with IT companies; someone, after each module in the School of Educational Managers, worked through the acquired knowledge with the collective and now has an established team work.

Another value of the program is the formation of a community of educational leaders and the creation of conditions for open dialogue within the educational system among its various representatives.

School of Educational Managers: From Principal to Educational Team Leader