1. How the Flemish Inspectorate stimulates innovative schools Flemish Inspectorate of Education Ingrid Ocket & Frans De Bie, inspectors

2. 3 key words 1. autonomy 2. support 3. accountability Quality assurance in Flemish education

3. Quality of Education = responsibility of schools

4. Role of the inspectorate check the 3 quality conditions does the school respect the rules and regulations and deliver quality education and good quality outcomes? does the school provide quality monitoring, assuring the quality of the educational processes? does the school have capacity to establish good policy? write school reports advise further recognition

5. CIPO

6. Preliminary enquiry Audit Data analysis Examination: interviews observations Interpretation Deliberation: focus for the audit Quality examination Inspection report Data analysis Examination: interviews observations Interpretation Deliberation: advice Results of data analysis Results of examination: interviews observations Results of interpretation Results of deliberation: strenghts and weaknesses advice

7. Interpretation Integral image of estimated strenghts and weaknesses Deliberation Representative selection of estimated strenghts/weaknesses Audit focus Selection of audit items integral enquiry to assess the local situation: Preliminary enquiry

8. profound and differentiated case-studies technique of triangulation conversations observations document analysis Audit

9. with the following basic questions as a guideline: which initiatives and innovations are being developed? how the team has chosen the initiatives and innovations which effects does the team want to achieve by these? what are the current effects? how do the team members themselves evaluate the obtained learning effects, results? Audit

10. Additional enquiries Language policy Science Techniques Engineering Mathematics (STEM) Social Economical Status (SES) Wellbeing

11. report about the 3 quality conditions respecting the rules and regulations quality monitoring, assuring the quality of the educational processes capacity to establish good policy the results of our enquiries with special attention for our confidence in the institutions autonomy deliberation, weighing « strengths » and « weaknesses » stimulation signalisation in case of serious structural weaknesses - Inspection report

12. chapter with strenghts and weaknesses relevant aspects which are good, examples of good practice relevant aspects which can be improved, levers for improvement relevant aspects which have to be improved, the subject(s) of further control Inspection report

13. concluding conversation about the report publication on a public website no ranking Final touch

14. Study PhD Ilse De Volder

15. Final thoughts? Questions?