

Leadership in education: interaction of policies, schools and community
16. April, 2018 - 17. April, 2018
NEPC 2018 annual conference, that took place in Baška, Croatia, on April 16th-17th, was dedicated to School Leadership, as a natural continuation of the past three year’s strategical exploration of the topic.
NEPC has been exploring school leadership directly through its two recent studies on school governance (Gabršček, 2016; Lenskaya, 2017). Studies show the great power and important role school principles have on school governance level, as well as a lack of professional support available to them in some countries and the tendency to confuse leadership with management – not only by school leaders and school staff but in, some cases, by policymakers.
From these premises, the conference aimed to point out some of the policies, practices, and concrete case examples that can better support effective yet inclusive leadership in our schools.