IPPN/NAPD Symposium - Reimagining leadership for effective schools
- Published: 10 January 2024
IPPN and NAPD have collaborated to convene a symposium on education and school leadership in Ireland, entitled “Reimagining leadership for effective schools”. The symposium takes place on Thursday, 11th January, and will be attended by the primary and post-primary education stakeholders.
Renowned Finnish educator Pasi Sahlberg will seek to consider and provoke discussion with regard to education challenges globally, their relevance to the Irish context, the purpose of education and what needs to happen to ensure effective, sustainable school leadership.
The focus of the symposium is aligned with IPPN’s advocacy work on our Sustainable Leadership project. We will report on insights and perspectives that emerge at the symposium in future E-scéalta.
The time for reimagining school leadership has long since arrived. If we don’t grasp this nettle then we are guilty of being bystanders to the undermining of leadership and school effectiveness. We need to either allow school leaders to do the job they signed up to do or, at the very least, we need to establish some consensus around what it is that we want school leaders to be doing. That consensus needs to be established within the wider conversation about what it is we want our system of education to achieve. Hopefully, the symposium will prove to be a starting point for that conversation.
