📋 GHSN Roadmap & Progress Report

✅ What happens here

Headteacher completes the GHSN registration form (name, school, district, email, phone). This is the entry point to the network.

📌 How to complete

• Visit the GHSN registration page.
• Fill in all required fields.
• Submit - you will receive a welcome email and access to this roadmap.

🎓 What happens here

Headteacher attends a group induction meeting covering:

• a) Registration process assistance
• b) OpenProject use and navigation
• c) Survey completion guidance

📅 Next Induction Meeting

This week - Thursday or Friday (time to be confirmed based on preference).

All registered headteachers are invited.

⚡ The Superpower

OpenProject is an enterprise-grade project management tool. Normally, access to this level of capability costs £15.95 per user per month (Premium plan). Through AlkebulanMeta, you receive this capability at no cost - plus custom educator add-ons.

⚡ The Superpower – Why OpenProject Training is Your School's Competitive Edge

This training is your gateway to an elite professional network – a class of school leaders who can access and shape opportunities and stand as leaders to other schools.

The training exercise is part of the consultation process because all future projects will be administered with OpenProject as a central management tool. We need to know who is ready to harness it. Those who complete this training will have demonstrated the capacity to manage complex projects, coordinate teams, and bring vision into reality.

Here is what this unlocks for your school community:

• You step into a new level of leadership, where project management fluency sets you apart and positions your school as a regional hub for development.
• You gain the tools to transform the inherent brilliance of African education into visible, trackable, and fundable achievement that attracts partners and resources.
• You open a door to professionalisation that makes your school a destination for investment and collaboration, not just a recipient of aid.
• You join a community of like-minded leaders who share successes, strategies, and support – a cooperative of schools that can achieve more together than any single school could alone.
• You master a system that allows you to plan, track, and deliver complex projects with the same capability that normally costs thousands of pounds per year – now available to you at no cost as a founding member of GHSN.
• You become part of a movement of schools that can self-organise and command resources normally reserved for much larger institutions.

Your school will be one of the first in the region to own this capability, opening doors to partnership and funding that were previously beyond your view. You are not just learning a tool – you are claiming a new set of possibilities and building the capacity to serve your community with excellence and vision.

📄 Read more: OpenProject Training - Superpower Transfer

📊 What happens here

Headteacher completes Survey 1: School Orientation & Leadership Priorities (5-10 minutes).

📌 How to complete

• Open the “What Should I Do?” section at the top of this page.
• Use the survey link shown there when it is open.
• Submit your responses.

📊 What happens here

Headteacher completes the combined Teacher & Student Capacity survey (20-25 minutes). You can save and resume later.

📌 How to complete

• Open the “What Should I Do?” section at the top of this page.
• Use the survey link shown there when it is open. You can save and resume later.
• Submit when complete.

📊 What happens here

Headteacher completes the final survey: Connectivity, Safeguarding & Delivery (15-20 minutes).

📌 How to complete

• Open the “What Should I Do?” section at the top of this page.
• Use the survey link shown there when it is open. You can save and resume later.
• Submit when complete.

🏆 What happens here

Headteacher attends the Provisional Member conference call, reviews and adopts the GHSN constitution, and confirms their school's commitment.

📅 Provisional Member Conference Call

Once 18-27 schools have completed all surveys, we will convene a conference call to:

• Present the GHFD and GHSN projects in full.
• Introduce the GHSN constitution.
• Give members time to review the constitution.
• Hold a second meeting to adopt the constitution and formally launch GHSN.

🏅 Recognition

• Public listing as a Provisional Member of GHSN.
• Priority access to the pilot.
• Provisional membership certificate.
• Network governance rights.

📅 Meeting 1: Group Induction (Project Space Training)

This week - Thursday or Friday (time TBC based on preference)

• a) Registration process assistance
• b) OpenProject use and navigation
• c) Survey completion guidance

Who: All registered headteachers.

Status milestone: "OP Training"

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📅 Meeting 2: Provisional Member Conference Call

After 18-27 schools have completed all surveys

• Full presentation of GHFD and GHSN projects
• Introduction of GHSN constitution
• Time for members to review constitution
• Second meeting to adopt constitution and formally launch GHSN

Who: Headteachers who have completed Surveys 1-4.

Status milestone: "Provisional Member"

⚡ Your Superpower

OpenProject Premium normally costs £15.95 per user per month (minimum 100 users). Through AlkebulanMeta, GHSN members receive access to this enterprise-grade project management capability at no cost, together with a practical training pathway.

The reason we call this a superpower transfer is that the project does not only ask schools to wait for future support. It immediately gives school leaders a professional operating system for planning, coordination, evidence, reporting, teamwork and accountability.

• Level 0:5 · Not Started - registered, but not yet oriented in the project space.
• Level 1:5 · Observer - can access the project space and follow the shared roadmap.
• Level 2:5 · Contributor - can participate, update work, respond to tasks and contribute evidence.
• Level 3:5 · Organiser - can help organise work packages, timelines, documents and team activity.
• Level 4:5 · Leader - can coordinate school-facing delivery and support others.
• Level 5:5 · Master - can train, guide and model the OpenProject method for others.

Even before the full Golden House projects are developed, this training gives members a practical capability they can use for school development, cooperative planning, CPD, reporting and project fundraising readiness.

Read the OpenProject Training Guide

See the official OpenProject pricing below for reference:

You are receiving this capability for free as part of your GHSN provisional membership pathway.