E-scéal 259 - Deputy Principals’ Conference, IPPN Recruiting Principal Advice Manager
- Published: 04 April 2011
Date For Your Diary: ‘Leading, Learning – It’s more than Sums & Spelling’
Our Deputy Principals’ Conference will be held at Citywest Hotel & Convention Centre, Dublin from 5.00pm Thursday 19th to 3.30pm Friday 20th May. The DES has granted substitute cover for Deputy Principals on Friday 20th May. Full details including speaker list will be published on www.ippn.ie shortly.
E-scéal 258 - What is your one wish for Minister?
- Published: 21 March 2011
One wish for New Minister for Education & Skills
We would like to congratulate Mr Ruairí Quinn TD on his appointment as our new Minister for Education and Skills. Minister Quinn has attended our last three annual Principals’ Conferences and has demonstrated a keen willingness to learn first-hand the important issues and challenges that Principals face. School leaders have faced many challenges in 2011; if you had one wish for the new minister, what would it be? Please email your one wish to president@ippn.ie.
E-scéal 257 - ICT Supplement, PIMs Diary, Your School & Staff Management
- Published: 21 March 2011
Sunday Business Post Supplement Features Technology in Schools
This weekend’s Sunday Business Post will feature a 16 page broadsheet supplement - ‘Best Schools 2011 - putting technology into practice’, which is dedicated to the use of technology in the classroom. The supplement will include a short feature on IPPN’s web services EducationPosts.ie, TextaSub and TextaParent.ie.The supplement examines advances in infrastructure with more choice in digital content, and the recognition in the Irish education system that smart schools are a fundamental stepping stone to a revitalised economy. The Sunday Business Post’s team of tech writers talk to wide ranging experts, from international thought leaders to school principals on the frontline who are already seeing the benefits.
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E-scéal 256 - Your School & Staff Management, DP Conference & INTO Meeting
- Published: 08 March 2011
Your School & Staff Management – sponsored by 
One of the biggest challenges facing school leaders and their boards is staff management – from appointment procedures to dealing with underperformance and everything in between. IPPN will present a one-day management seminar entitled ‘Your School & Staff Management’ for Principals and Board of Management members covering a variety of staff management-related topics including:
E-scéal 255 - Croke Park Agreement – ‘Whole School Hours’
- Published: 28 February 2011
There has been a lot of discussion among Principals on the implementation of the extra hours that arose from the Croke Park Agreement. We have received a lot of phone calls to the IPPN Support Office looking for guidance on the use of this time, which we are referring to here as ‘whole school hours’. The following points are intended to answer the wide range of questions we received, and hopefully they may be of help to you in your consultations with staff, and your input to the Board of Management’s decision on its use.
