Lead the Way | Education Leadership Skills

Linda O’Hara is an AP1 postholder in Coláiste Iognáid, better known as ‘The Jes’ in Galway city and is a non-fee paying co-educational secondary school. After leaving college she went abroad to work in the European Schools and did so for the following 15 years splitting her time between Luxembourg and Brussels. Having returned to Galway, she now leads the SSE process in her school and shares her insights into the role.

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Nessa Hill is a co-founder of Neurodiversity Ireland and lives in Dublin. She has a 5 year old autistic girl with ADHD. In order to overcome barriers to securing educational places, she and two other mothers with similar  experiences decided to set up this organisation to highlight how all educators needs to be supported with adequate training to develop the skills and tools to support these children in an educational setting. 

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Linda O' Hara, the SSE co-ordinator in Coláiste Iognáid, Galway briefly explains how she appraoched the SSE process in her school. 

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Orla Dempsey, formerly a teacher, is now a Career coach and works alongside teachers and school leaders to help them to communicate their experience more effectively and support them with job applications and interviews. She also provides coaching and explains how it works here along with giving practical tips for interview preparation long before we even get called for one. 

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Orla Dempsey, Career and Life Coach explains the STAR technique for the interview process. 

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Garrett Malone is a Primary school teacher in Holy Family Senior school, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. Teaching since 2001 he has worked under three different Principals and is currently a 6th class teacher. He has strong opinions on educational leadership and draws much inspiration from leadership in the sporting world and believes there is a huge crossover between the two. 

Ann's website:

⁠https://leadthewaycoaching.my.canva.site/⁠

 Gregg O’Neill has been working for 12 years as a teacher and the last two as a year head in CBC Monkstown, Dublin, a Catholic boys’ school with a student population of 544. Gregg is also the author of educate.ie's best selling textbook for Junior Cycle history, Artefact, and their LC History book, the Making of Europe and the Wider World and consequently has given a wide range of CPD sessions for both Junior and Senior cycle history for teachers around the country. CBC Monkstown, While part of the Edmund Rice Trust, is a fee-paying school so talking to Gregg will offer a different perspective again on the role of year head which he has undertaken for the last two years.

Ann's website:

⁠https://leadthewaycoaching.my.canva.site/⁠

Garrett Malone, primary school teacher, believes we need to acknowledge a love of people is at the heart of teaching. 

A quick overview by year head Gregg O'Neill on how to support students struggling socially. 

A taster of our second year head interview which with Gregg O’Neill, a year head in CBC Monkstown who talks here about an effective tutor system. 

Ann's website:

⁠https://leadthewaycoaching.my.canva.site/⁠