The move toward licence-first learning materials reduced students’ opportunity to save money through second-hand books. Patrick identified the risk that some students would struggle to afford new materials.
Patrick’s contribution
He initiated a model in which companies from the relevant professional field could sponsor printed, offline learning materials. In return, employers received recruitment visibility in the final pages of the books, tied to recruitment and selection within that field.
The sponsorship money flowed back toward learning materials for students who could not afford them. The mechanism gave employers a relevant recruitment presence while addressing an affordability problem created by digitisation.
What the model connected
Student access, employer recruitment and publishing economics became part of the same funding mechanism.
How the sponsorship model worked
01Licence-first publishing
02Reduced second-hand affordability
03Employer sponsorship
04Recruitment visibility in print
05Funding for student materials
Employers received visibility; sponsorship funds supported access to learning materials.
02 / Civas Onderwijs & Kinderopvang 2023–2024
Embedding a learning culture
Organizational learningLeadership & communicationProfessional development
The challenge
Launching an online academy was only one part of the work. Professional development also needed a place in the organization’s strategy, leadership and everyday learning culture.
Patrick’s contribution
Working with education management and the Ontwikkelhuis framework, Patrick helped connect vision and psychological safety, learning structure, learning capability and learning culture. The aim was to move from having an academy toward being a learning organization.
He wrote school advisory reports and created a matrix linking board-level strategy, school goals, professional-development needs and relevant academy content. He also facilitated leadership and communication workshops and helped establish EVC pathways for starting education professionals.
From strategy to development
The matrix gave strategic goals a practical connection to development needs and learning content. Workshops and EVC pathways supported that broader organizational-development work.
Connecting strategy to learning
01Board strategy
02School objectives
03Required capabilities
04Learning interventions
05Academy content
The alignment matrix connected organizational goals with professional development and academy content.
03 / VO-raad / Vensters 2024–2025
Turning legislation into usable information
Regulation into practiceInformation productsData quality
The challenge
New legislation had to become practical requirements for schools. The resulting information also needed to be clear, understandable and useful to parents and students.
Patrick’s contribution
Patrick helped determine what schools needed to provide and how digital information products could support that process. Working between regulation, product development and school data meant considering both the school’s workflow and the people reading the information.
The intended outcome
Make compliance easier for schools while strengthening transparency and the position of parents and students through information they could understand and use.
From a legal requirement to useful information
01Legislation
02Requirements
03School workflow
04Information product
05Parents & students
School compliance and understandable information were both part of the product task.
MONITOR DIGITALISERING ONDERWIJS
A reliable picture of digital development
Patrick also worked on the release and quality assurance of the Monitor Digitalisering Onderwijs. His contribution helped schools provide reliable information so the benchmark could offer a meaningful picture of digital development within Dutch secondary education.
The role of quality assurance
01School data
02Quality assurance
03National benchmark
04Insight into digital development
THE PROFESSIONAL TIMELINE
The wider background.
From teaching and advisory work to information products and building technology.
2024–2025
Information products
VO-raad / Vensters
Translated legislation into practical school information products and worked on the release and quality assurance of the Monitor Digitalisering Onderwijs.
Functional testing, UAT, data quality and Agile/Scrum collaboration.
2023–2024
Learning & development advisory
Civas Onderwijs & Kinderopvang
Connected organizational strategy with learning culture, professional-development pathways and academy content.
Leadership and communication workshops, school advisory reports, academy implementation and EVC pathways.
2019–2023
Education advisory & business development
EduHint
Account and regional responsibility in vocational education; initiated an employer sponsorship model for access to learning materials.
B2B and education relationships, tenders, market analysis and coordinating colleagues and events.
2018–2019
Account management in secondary education
Lyceo
Advised school leadership, developed relationships and coordinated educational programmes.
School networks, proposals and account development.
Earlier foundations
Understanding an audience
Teaching & sales advisory
Teaching experience in the Netherlands and Canada, alongside earlier sales advisory work and relationship management.
Education-assistant training at Landstede and English teacher training at Windesheim. Taught English at MBO Landstede.
THE NEXT CHAPTER
From systems to software.
With SecuRedact, the question is how to make privacy practical when AI can reach more of an organization’s information. The work continues: understand the needs, define the boundaries and build them into a usable tool.
Een creatieve en analytische professional met veel inhoudelijke kennis van het onderwijs. Patrick blijft uitblinken in het doorgronden en optimaliseren van systemen en weet complexe processen snel inzichtelijk te maken.
Business unit manager · Civas Onderwijs & KinderopvangReference letter
Patrick ziet kansen en gaat ermee aan de slag. Hij is digitaal vaardig, kan technische oplossingen uitwerken en kijkt nadrukkelijk naar de maatschappelijke relevantie van zijn werk.
Team lead producten · VO-raadReference letter
Patrick is enthousiast, leergierig en gedreven. Hij is betrokken bij en begaan met docenten en studenten. Patrick denkt mee bij opleidingsvraagstukken, geeft helder advies over de inzet van leermiddelen en staat altijd open voor een praatje.
Collega · EduHintReference letter
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