Micheál Brennan is a primary school teacher based in St Stephen’s National School, Johnstown, Navan, Co. Meath. He has been teaching for 9 years and has just completed his first year as an APII and completed the MESL in UL back in January. He is also involved with the management committee of Navan Education Centre and the local INTO branch. He will talk to us about the steps he has taken towards leadership and about dealing with the setbacks along the way.

Graham Maher is a secondary school Business teacher in Clogher Road Community College, Crumlin, Dublin. He is here to share his Masters in Educational Leadership research he completed in 2022-23 with Maynooth University titled, ‘Outdoor Education: is it meaningful education or jut a lovely day out?’ We will discuss his research and what he perceives as a result, to be the positives of and barriers to outdoor education.

A quick preview of our next episode on Outdoor education.

Sinead Collins is a teacher in a DEIS school in North Dublin who has just finished a period of 5 years as a Home School Community Liaison. She has also this year, completed her Master of Education through Maynooth University on Trauma Informed Practices. Throughout the last five years she has supported families of students with attendance issues, ran whole school initiatives including DEIS target list initiatives and responded and supported students with referrals from student support teams. She is happy to share her learnings and experience and exphasises that educators are not there to fix every ill of society but do need to have an awareness around the challenges facing their students and create learning spaces that don't add to the trauma already experienced. Some links below referred to in podcast and emerging from content.

https://www.childrensrights.ie/alliance-members/cork-life-centre

https://www.educatetogether.ie/nurture-2021/

https://childpsychologyinstitute.ie/

https://www.easons.com/poor-tpb-katriona-o-sullivan-9781844886210

https://www.traumainformed.ie/

Rena Bright also known online as The Calm Coach, talks to us today about her own challenging journey through the first 10 years of being a primary schoolteacher. An Adult diagnosis of ADHD explained much of her struggles.  Experiencing burnout as a primary school teacher, led to her personal growth journey and onto gaining a qualification in Coaching, Now, she hopes to support others to prevent burnout. We also explore how diversity in teaching can only happen when all are welcomed to train as teachers.

https://ie.linkedin.com/in/rena-bright-758776272

Ann's website

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

As founder of Avenue’s Consultancy and Coaching firm, Ingrid works with organisations who want to foster an environment that allows them to

https://www.cslireland.ie/coaching-for-principals.html

https://avenues.ie/