Overview of Primary Education in 2018- 2019

A challenging year of relentless change

By Páiric Clerkin  | CEO, IPPN
& Geraldine D’Arcy | Research & Publications Manager, IPPN

The Challenging Role of the Irish Teaching Principal

How the system can help

By Anna Mai Rooney | Deputy Director Primary, Centre for School Leadership

A Calendar of Reform

Managing the change agenda in primary
schools

By Maria Doyle | President, IPPN 2015–2017. Incoming European Representative on the Executive of the International 
Confederation of Principals

If we want the best, we need to invest

By Seamus Mulconry | General Secretary, Catholic Primary Schools Management Association (CPSMA)

10 Years of State Multidenominational Schools

Journey of the Community National School model, 2008 to 2018

By Seamus Conboy | Primary Support Officer for Community National Schools

Lost in Transition

Building a programme of transition through teachers’ learning

By Kathryn Corbett | Teacher

Professional Collaboration in Primary Schools in Ireland

Let’s get together to learn together

By Dr Lorraine Duffy | Head of School Placement, School of Education, Hibernia College

Specialising in Primary Physical Education

Primary teachers ‘fit’ to enhance well-being
of children

By Susan Marron, Frances Murphy & Maura Coulter | Lecturers in Physical
Education, School of Arts Education and Movement, Institute of Education, DCU

Discovering Gems

Authentic listening to the ‘voice’ of experience in teaching pupils with autism

By Dr Carol-Ann O’Síoráin | programme coordinator of the Postgraduate Diploma in Special Education Needs: Autism; lecturer on inclusion and diversity in St Angela’s College, Sligo, NUIG.
& Professor Michael Shevlin | School of Education, Trinity College Dublin 
& Dr Conor McGuckin | School of Education, Trinity College Dublin.

Going Back to School for 150 Years

A time for reflection

By Sheila Nunan | General Secretary of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation