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For Facilitator
• Markers
• Flipchart
• Paper
• Check for video ( speakers)
( Optional, Print out leadership and
Management slide to display, leadership quotes,
and LDS/PDST Profile of Leadership )

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• Mobile phones – silent
• Sign-in / out sheets (attendance)
• Any cancellations (accommodation or dinner)
• Please return promptly after tea breaks / lunch
• 9.15 am start tomorrow – please be on time!
- Go raibh maith agaibh!
What we ask of you…

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Leadership

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What is Leadership?
‘ I start with the premise that the function of
leadership is to produce more leaders, not more
followers’
Ralph Nader
‘ If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more and become more, you are a leader’
John Quincey Adams

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Beginning Principalship

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• What are my expectations of me as a
Principal?
• My own own expectations?
• Children’s?
• Teacher’s?
• Parent’s?
• Board of Management?
• Community?
Expectations

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Strategies for Managing
Expectations
1. Be clear - what is reasonable and
unreasonable
2. Clarity around priorities - Clear, achievable,
realistic goals
3. Communicate one’s priorities to others
4. Be yourself – authenticity in being Principal
5. Have a ‘critical friend’ / mentor / local support
6. Respond, rather than react
7. Circle of control / influence

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yesterday
Principalship involves …

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PDST Leadership Profile
Leading
People
Leading
Community
Managing
Self
Leading the
Organisatio
n
Leading
Change
Leading
Learning

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Leadership / Management
Doing the right
thing
Doing things right
Leading People Managing things

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Defining the role of the Principal.
• Circular 16/73 of the Rules for National Schools
• The Education Act , section 22 (1998-2012)
• Governance Manual 2015-2019

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•Circular states principal is responsible for
•Discipline
•Teaching Staff
•Supervision of work
•Organisation of the school
•Attendance Records
•Promotion of pupils
•Arranging and observing timetables
•Rental book scheme
Circular 16/73

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Leadership – Education Act (1998-
2012) Section 22
Responsibilities for the Principal Include:
• Responsibility for day to day management
• Provision of leadership to teachers and pupils
• Creation of a supportive learning environment
• Obligation to set objectives for the school
• Encouragement of parental involvement

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Through the empowerment of others
MORAL PURPOSE
SITUATIONAL
AWARENESS
COURAGE TO ACT
Sustainability
MODELLING
“Walk the talk!”
Improving Learning
Core Principles of Leadership

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Finally, Some Words of Wisdom
for your Journey in Leadership
http://vimeo.com/user8605896/review/1089
91690/d102ce31d5

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Core Principle of Leadership
Courage to Act
Situational
Awareness
Modelling
“Walk the Talk”
Sustainability
Moral Purpose
Improving Learning
Through the empowerment of others

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Recommended Reading
Sugrue C (Ed) 2005.
Passionate Principalship, Learning from the
life histories of school leaders.
London Routledge