Martin Kozel
CEO Učitel naživo
Martin Kozel is the CEO at Učitel naživo (Teacher Live). He has been involved in the development of the programme for future teachers, and has been involved in the overall development of the concept and curriculum of the Ředitel naživo (Principal Live) programme for school principals and their deputies. He was at the origin of teacher support projects at the Depositum Bonum Foundation, such as H-mat and Elixír do škol (Elixir for Schools). He has directed the Jules and Jim civic association and is a Social Impact Award winner with the project Enterprising School. He studied sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Charles University and has been an avid scout since childhood.
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Agile transformation in NGO Učitel naživo (Teacher Live)
The non-profit organization Teacher Live (Učitel naživo) has a worthy mission – its goal is to improve the quality of Czech education for our children through the support and improvement of the preparation of future teachers and the development of school principals. It wants to achieve systemic change, which means not only helping specific teachers and principals, but also working with the system and changing legislation. The organization is made up of about 40-50 heartfelt members. The governance of the organization looked like that the entire team came together at an offsite meeting in August and created a plan for the next school year. But by September, the reality was very different. For example – when a key person is replaced several times a year – the Minister of Education. We were always able to adapt quickly, but we rarely abandoned our original intentions and the snowballing became untenable after a while. That’s why two years ago the management decided to switch to Agile management. In this talk, Martin Kozel (co-founder and CEO of Učitel naživo) and Roman Šmiřák (co-founder of RainFellows) will share how they approached Agility in this unusual nonprofit environment, what it has brought, and how people in the organization evaluate Agility two years later.
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