Made in Sweden? Configured digitalized school leadership practice

Figures & data

Figure 1. LIKA Ledning [LICU], by Swedish association of local authorities and regions, 2022a (https://lika.skl.se). Illustration edited and translated by author.

Figure 2. LIKA Ledning [LICU], by Swedish association of local authorities and regions, 2022c (https://lika.skl.se/uselika/page/handlingsplanen). Illustration edited and translated by author.

Figure 3. LIKA Ledning [LICU], by Swedish association of local authorities and regions, 2022c (https://lika.skl.se/uselika/page/handlingsplanen). Illustration edited and translated by author.

Table A1. Table of translated questionnaire statements for reference purposes.

Visions and strategical work

Q1 The school’s management has a concrete vision for the work with digitalization in the school which is communicated to the employees.

Q2 The school management works strategically together with the school educators to set clear and evaluable goals (1–3 years term) for educators’ and students’ use of digital tools and resources in learning.

Q3 Questions concerning the school’s digitalization are regularly included in the school’s management meetings

Q4 Within each school development area the school plans for, there are digital tools and resources as possible tools to use in the work.

Q5 Discussions on how digital tools and resources can be used to achieve goals in the pedagogical activity is a recurring element in e.g. weekly meetings and conferences.

Q6 The school’s management acts as role models, participates in continuing education initiatives and uses various digital tools as a tool in their work for e.g. information and communication with employees.

Organization

Q7 The students are daily involved, in different ways, in the school’s issues concerning digitization to push the development forward (i.e. through digitalization councils, digital coaches in the classes, Student Helpdesk etc.).

Q8 The school has staff with designated responsibilities and time set aside to handle the administration of the school’s IT services.

Q9 The school has staff with designated responsibilities and time set aside to support and further train the educators in the use of the school’s IT services

Q10 The school has staff with designated responsibility for IT pedagogical issues and time set aside to support and further educate the educators in the pedagogical use of various digital tools (IT educator, first teachers, school developer and the like).

Q11 The school has access to staff with designated responsibilities and time set aside to support educators and other staff in terms of hardware/technology (IT technical support).

Organization – competence development

Q12 Inspiration meetings/ exchange of experiences (e.g. theme days, share-your-experience-days, participant driven conferences, lectures, etc.) with digital tools and learning as a focus is arranged continuously on the school/school area and is included in the academic year planning.

Q13 Digital competence is discussed in employee interviews and pedagogical use of digital tools are included as part of the educators’ competence development plans.

Q14 Collegiate learning is used as a model in the school’s competence development when it comes to digitalization.

Q15 The school’s management enables, encourages and participates in a sharing culture regarding competence and the use of digital tools and resources in schools.

Q16 The school’s management enables and encourages educators’ collaboration with research institutes on the impact of digitalisation on teaching and learning.

Guidelines and routines

Q17 The school has routines for who is responsible for the introduction of digital national tests.

Q18 There is an anchored strategy when it comes to communication via digital services, one knows which one to use with internal and external recipients (educators, students, guardians, etc.).

Q19 The school’s management has routines for continuously following the National Agency of Education’s information about prerequisites for conducting digital national tests and have a plan for how these are to be met.

Budget

Q20 The school budgets for digitalization in all its areas (e.g. fixed equipment, hardware, software, licenses, training) and has funds set aside based e.g. on the school’s action plan and the activities planned within the current financial year and onwards (eg digital national tests).

Evaluation

Q21 The school regularly follows up the students’ views on the use of digital tools and resources in teaching. Based on results, the school reports initiatives that are taken.

Q22 The school regularly follows up the educators’ views on the use of digital tools and resources in teaching. Based on results, the school reports initiatives that are taken.

Q23 The school leader explains and exemplifies in his/hers systematic quality work how the school’s pedagogical work has developed with the help of digital tools and resources.

Table A2. Results regarding the analysis of statements Q1-23 according to analytical framework categories.

Question number	Division of Labor	Tools	Rules	Community
Visions and strategical work
Q1	The school’s management	Concrete vision for the work with digitalization in the school	Clearly communicating tools	The employees
Q2	The school’s management	Clear and evaluable goals for use of digital tools and resources in learning	To work together with educators in setting tools	Educators and students
Q3	N/A	Questions concerning the school’s digitalization	Regular inclusion of tools in management meetings	Those attending management meetings
Q4	The school	Digital tools and resources as possible tools to use	Making plans for school development and including tools in plans	Development areas in the school
Q5	N/A	How digital tools and resources can be used effectively in the pedagogical activity	Discussing tools in weekly meetings and conferences	Those attending weekly meetings and conferences regarding pedagogical activity
Q6	The school’s management	Digital tools as a tool for work	Individual role modeling tool use	The employees
Organization
Q7	The students	Digitalization councils, digital coaches in the classes, Student Helpdesk etc.	Particularly involving students in tools	The school
Q8	The school	Administration of the school’s IT services	Designation of responsibilities and time set aside for specific staff	The School
Q9	The school	Support and training of/in the school’s IT services	Designation of responsibilities and time set aside for specific staff	The educators
Q10	The school	IT pedagogical issues, pedagogical use of various digital tools	Designation of responsibilities and time set aside for specific staff	The educators
Q11	The school	Hardware / technology	Designation of responsibilities and time set aside for specific staff	The educators
Organization - competence development
Q12	N/A	Digital tools and learning as a focus	Continual arrangement and inclusion in the academic year planning of Inspiration meetings/exchange of experiences	School / school area
Q13	N/A	Digital competence, pedagogical use of digital tools	Discussions in employee interviews/use of competence development plans	The educators
Q14	N/A	Digitalization	Collegiate learning in school-wide competence development	The school
Q15	The school’s management	Competence and the use of digital tools and resources in schools	Enabling, encouragement, participation in sharing culture	The school
Q16	The school’s management	Impact of digitalization on teaching and learning	Encourage and enable collaboration with research institutes	The educators
Guidelines and routines
Q17	The school	Introduction of digital national tests	Having routines for responsibility	N/A
Q18	N/A	Communication via digital services with internal and external recipients	Having an anchored strategy	Educators, students, guardians
Q19	The school’s management	National Agency for Education’s information about prerequisites for conducting digital national tests	Having routines and plans	The school’s management
Budget
Q20	The school	Digitalization in all its areas (eg fixed equipment, harware, software, licenses, training), action plan, planned activities (eg digital national tests)	Budget, set aside funds for financial year and onwards	All areas
Evaluation
Q21	The school	Use of digital tools and resources in teaching	Regularly following up students’ views and report on taken initiatives	The school
Q22	The school	Use of digital tools and resources in teaching	Regularly following up the educators’ views and report on taken initiatives	The school
Q23	The school leader	How the school’s pedagogical work has developed with the help of digital tools and resources	Explain and exemplify in systematic quality work	The school leader

Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions. (2022a). LIKA Ledning [LICU]. https://lika.skl.se/

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