Achieving more together – cooperation as the key to effective school development
2nd Community School Conference
19. Mar
School is a joint project. It faces complex challenges, and overcoming these requires cooperation between all stakeholders – from school practice, administration, academia and other educational actors.
This is precisely where the Community School Conference comes in. It does not provide frontal teaching to impart knowledge, but rather cooperative processes, shared visions and learning through exchange in order to rethink school.
Following the Community School Conference in November 2024, we invite you for the second time to bring our perspectives together, share experiences, reflect on school development processes and jointly develop viable solutions.
In an open, dialogue-oriented format, we combine ideas and best practices with networking and participatory workshops – on open teaching, democracy education and new approaches to school development (see below).
The aim of the conference is to strengthen existing networks, initiate new collaborations and take the next concrete steps towards a sustainable school together.
We cordially invite all interested parties to attend!
Time and Location:
Thursday, March 19th 2026 | 13:00 - 18:00 (Doors open at 12:30)
Transformation Rooms (C25.019) | Leuphana University Lüneburg
Universitätsallee 1 | 21335 Lüneburg
Programme
12:30 p.m.
Arrival
1:00 p.m.
Welcome and brief presentation by Prof. Dr. Steffen Farny on the topic of ‘Shaping transfer together’
1:30 p.m.
Interactive session: Sharing experiences and insights
2:15 p.m.
Workshops with practical approaches
(see below for detailed information)
4:30 p.m.
Break
4:45 p.m.
Interactive session: Further developing ideas and solutions
5:30 p.m.
Conclusion
6:00 p.m.
End
Workshops
Futures: Perspectives with Lego® Serious Play®
In this interactive workshop, you will give free rein to your creativity. Using the Lego® Serious Play® method, you will develop models of your visions for the future and highlight relevant aspects – including those you were not initially aware of. In targeted reflection interviews, we will explore these aspects, open up new perspectives and deduce what we need to navigate these scenarios successfully.
Speakers:
• Hariet Schellig
Research assistant, Institute of Education
• Florian List
Research assistant, Institute of Sustainable Chemistry, AG Didactics of Natural Sciences
Playing through change: ‘Game of Schools’ – a serious game for school development
Schools are currently facing major challenges, but often lack the necessary resources to address them. Sometimes there is a lack of money, sometimes a lack of available staff, or plans are simply thrown out the window by unforeseeable events. In ‘Game of Schools’, the newly developed card game from the Leuphana Innovation Community School Development and Leadership, players take on the role of school administrators. The aim is to develop their own school through various projects and collect as many points as possible. It is important to use resources wisely, combine them in new and different ways, find creative solutions to bottlenecks, cooperate with others and not be discouraged by setbacks and obstacles.
In this workshop, we want to test the prototype of the game and reflect together on whether and how this serious game can give teachers ideas for their everyday school life.
Participation limit: max. 8 people
Speaker:
• Dennis Wohlfeil
Research Assistant, Institute of Education
Finding solutions: Open teaching in everyday school life
How can open teaching succeed in real school conditions? In this workshop, we will address typical questions relating to ‘open teaching’. At various stations, we will work together to develop practical solutions for different school contexts, with advice from experts. The aim is for participants to take concrete ideas and options for action back to their everyday (working) lives in order to tackle the transformation of schools towards open teaching and find their own role in it.
Speaker:
• Ninja Müller
Research assistant, Institute of Education