Diary of meetings held by IPPN on behalf of Principals JANUARY 2007
Deputy Principals’ Conference May 15th 2007 This year’s Deputy Principals’ Conference will take place at the Tullamore Court Hotel on Tuesday, May 15th 2007. The theme of this year’s Conference is Distributed Leadership. The Keynote Speaker is Professor Jim Spillane, Northwestern University, an expert on educational and distributed leadership. A strong view was expressed by the majority of Deputy Principals at last year’s conference that, in order to gain maximum benefit, Principals and their Deputies jointly participate in any Professional Development that is focused on shared or distributed leadership. In response, this Conference will be open to Principals to attend based on a joint application with a Deputy Principal. Application forms will be available on www.ippn.ie and sent to all schools after Easter. Places are limited and will be allocated on a ‘first come – first served’ basis only. We will send you a text when the application forms are available on-line.
Executive meeting Strategic Planning Review meeting IPPN presentation at LDS Tánaiste Programme Meeting of President with Wexford Principals’ focus group IPPN Conference 2007, INEC Killarney
FEBRUARY 2007 National Committee meeting Executive meeting IPPN/LDS Spreagadh Programme started in Donegal, Kilkenny and Wexford IPPN meeting with IBEC and education partners re. ICT Launch of "The State of the Nation’s Children" Report DES meetings Barnardos - Case for Constitutional Change
MARCH 2007 Executive meeting Presentation of OECD Background Report on ‘Improving School Leadership’ Retirement Function for former National Committee member Doreen McHugh Consultation meeting on ‘Future Leaders’ with LDS and education partners Official opening of the Cork Education Support Centre NAPD Symposium on ‘Civic Republicanism - Vision and Values in 21st Century Ireland: What Ireland needs from its Education System’ Launch of ICEP Europe/St. Patrick’s College Special/ Inclusive Education diploma IPPN/INTO meeting National Association of Head Teachers (Northern Ireland) Conference Meetings with DES CPSMA AGM and Dinner Launch of Teaching Council Professional Code of Conduct Represented at One-Teacher Schools meeting On-line Claims System (OLCS) Management Committee meeting Special Education Needs Council launch International Confederation of Principals’(ICP) Convention Educate Together, Launch of "The Future Starts Here Every Day"
IPPN Confidential Query Line How does it work? The IPPN Confidential Query Line has become one of the most important services offered to IPPN members over the last year. It is organised by experienced Principals who have very kindly volunteered their services to be part of the query team in order to assist their colleagues. The main focus of the service is to provide professional and personal support for Principals. The Query Team is available to assist with a broad range of situations ranging from conflict management, day to day school management problems, building queries, SEN issues, etc. A
follow-up service is provided if required and confidentiality is assured.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
makes contact by telephone and generally a phone conversation suffices unless follow-up is required. The Query Team makes every effort to respond as quickly as possible.
A Principal with an issue to be resolved contacts the IPPN Support Office (1890 21 22 23) providing their roll number, full contact details and a brief outline of the particular issue about which they require advice. It is advisable to provide home contact details as it is not always possible to deal with queries during the school day. Queries are automatically transferred to the designated Query Team personnel with particular expertise and experience in the area concerned. A member of the Query Team
As the Query Team are busy Principals, we encourage members to submit queries only where a solution is not readily available by accessing educational websites, the relevant DES Circulars, the Primary Education Management Manual or the CPSMA Board of Management Handbook. It would greatly help the Query Team if you could return their calls as soon as possible; occasionally, queries remain open longer than necessary, causing undue follow-up and administration
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