The SYNERGIE project aims to support and qualify teams of school principals and other school management staff in their strategic planning and implementation of further training. To this end, they take part in a series of training courses over the course of a school year in which they analyze the initial situation at their own school and develop and implement a training plan for the coming school year on this basis. Participants learn skills in the systematic analysis of data, the planning of qualification measures that build on each other, the communication of the measures in the school and the evaluation of the offers with regard to the goals to be achieved.

SYNERGIE covers a period of four years and is run as a cooperative project between the University of Potsdam, the Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education (DIPF) and the University of Wuppertal.

Sub-project 1:

In the first sub-project, the training series will be evaluated by surveying participants and teachers at the participating schools. Two different intervention groups will be developed as part of the intervention study, with the first group working primarily with school data and the second receiving additional support from researchers. The evaluation will be supplemented by qualitative methods such as focus group interviews. The project is primarily taking place in the state of Brandenburg in collaboration with the State Institute for Schools and Media.

Sub-project 2:

The second sub-project aims to train multipliers in Berlin and Brandenburg in order to continue the training series beyond the duration of the project. The aim is to further initiate systematic training planning at schools. In addition, handouts with the training content will be created in order to make them available to other federal states.