BMI Supports Nationwide School Renewal with Leadership Training

9.7.2009

 

Baltic Management Institute (BMI) this week is providing world-class leadership training for young teachers participating in Renkuosi mokyti! (“Teach First”), an innovative programme to help renew Lithuania’s education system.

 

The initial group of 20 Renkuosi mokyti! teachers, who recently completed their first year of work in schools throughout the nation, is attending a 5-day seminar in Vilnius on “Leadership & Coaching Skills” led by the international lecturer-practitioners and authors Stephen Neale and Liz Wilson.

 

Last year BMI joined other socially responsible companies in Lithuania to launch Renkuosi mokyti!, which encourages top university graduates, who would not normally enter teaching, to teach for at least two years in secondary schools.

 

“The goal is, through the support of partners like BMI, to transform exceptional university graduates into effective, inspirational teachers and leaders, who are so much needed today in Lithuania’s school system and throughout society,” said BMI Director General Jaunius Pusvaškis.

 

BMI’s main role is to provide leadership training for the participating graduates, who also receive pedagogical instruction, salary supplements and attractive corporate internship possibilities from supporting companies.

 

SEB Bankas is the initiator and main financial supporter of Renkuosi mokyti!, which is inspired by similar successful programmes in the U.K. and U.S. This first such private initiative in the Baltic nation enjoys the patronage of the Lithuanian Ministry of Education.

 

For more information, in Lithuanian, and a full list of partners and supporters, see: www.renkuosimokyti.lt.

 

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