E-scéal 310 - Principal to make VAT returns to Revenue?
- Published: 07 June 2012
Every report, every evaluation and every policy document referring to improving children’s learning outcomes point towards the importance of the Principal being directly involved in the leadership and management of teaching and learning throughout the school. Fullan, Hargreaves and many more have researched and written extensively on this point. The OECD - and indeed our own National Council for Competitiveness - have all outlined this indisputable connection between the quality of leadership and the quality of learning in schools. The Inspectorate understands this truism and the evidence is the slow but gradual shift in emphasis away from inspection to self-evaluation. Every distraction that takes the Principal away from teaching and learning is a misuse of their key educational role.
E-scéal 309 - 18 May 2012 – Principals’ Summer Online Course
- Published: 18 May 2012
Ciall Ceannaithe is IPPN’s online summer course. This course is ideal not only for new and aspiring Principals but also for experienced Principals who wish to refresh their practice. Designed by Principals for Principals, Ciall Ceannaithe is the leading course of its type, overseen by a team of respected Principals who regularly deliver CPD modules in a variety of areas in addition to school leadership.
The course is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills and innovative solutions to the current challenges facing all principals. The course content has been guided by the feedback you have given us in relation to the issues on which you most need support and training.
E-scéal 308 - 18 May 2012 – Request for Assistance
- Published: 18 May 2012
The National Bureau of Criminal Investigation has asked IPPN to help with a child protection matter. The Bureau is trying to locate a child whose photograph has been found on the internet. The Bureau is trying to locate the child by identifying the school where the child last attended.
E-scéal 307 - 08 May 2012 - IPPN Structure Review
- Published: 08 May 2012
The Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN) is your network. Principals created it for each other and sustain it for each other; through their mutual need to support and resource one another. More than 75% of current principals and deputy principals have been appointed since IPPN was initially formed. They have no pre-IPPN experience. Like many other organisations, IPPN has grown rapidly in response to the constantly increasing demand for supports and services.
In such a context of change; IPPN’s Executive, after a tender process, has engaged Accenture Management Consultants to review our structures, capacity and systems used to deliver services. Part of this process is to ask you in your role as school leader and key stakeholder, for input to this process.
E-scéal 306 - RedC Poll commissioned by IPPN
- Published: 27 April 2012
Last week you received an e-scéal requesting your participation in a survey on a variety of topics. The survey included questions asked of the general adult population in an IPPN commissioned RedC Poll, together with other questions, to capture members’ thinking on issues relevant to school leaders.
In order that IPPN’s Executive can capture the opinion and experience of the overall network, it is vitally important that everyone has the opportunity to contribute their own views. This should take you no longer than 8-10 minutes. You will be notified by e mail when the findings of both surveys are available from ippn.ie. This will allow you the opportunity to examine the correlation between your own thinking, that of your colleagues and that of the general adult population.
