‘Leading, Leaders, and Leadership in Schools, Communities and Society’,
Leadership Forum Friday, May 17th – Saturday, May 18th, 2019 Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland MA DAY 1 - Friday, May 17th Y TIME 9.00-9.25 REGISTRATION (DAYS 1 & 2) TEA/COFFEE (TARA BUILDING, An tSli) 9.25-09.30 INTRODUCTION TO IRMSS 2019 DR GER DOWNES, IRMSS 2019 PROGRAMME CHAIR ROOM: T1.16 9.30-10.30 KEYNOTE 1 – PROFESSOR PAUL CONWAY, Director, National Institute for Studies in Education ‘Critical Role of Leadership in Education in Times of Continuous Change.’ ROOM: T1.16 10.30-11.00 BREAK 11.00-12.00 WORKSHOP 1: WORKSHOP 2:
DR CARMEL O’DOHERTY, Senior DR LISHA O’SULLIVAN, Head of
Inspector, Department of. Education Department of Reflective and Skills (DES). Pedagogy and Early Childhood Studies, MIC THEME: Educational Leadership and THEME: Play as learning: Management in the Primary School implications for educators and Sector parents from findings of a national evaluation of school readiness in Ireland. ROOM: T1.15 ROOM T1.16 12.30-13.30 LUNCH (MIC Canteen) 13.30-14.30 KEYNOTE 2: DR MICHAEL REDMOND, Director, Education Research and Development at Joint Managerial Body (JMB) THEME: ‘Educational Leadership in Irish Secondary Schools’ ROOM: T1.16 14.30-15.30 WORKSHOP 3: WORKSHOP 4: DR STELLA LONG, Lecturer in MARIE-THERESE KILMARTIN, Inclusive & Special Education, MIC. National Council for Curriculum & Assessment (NCCA). THEME: Mathematics for pupils with THEME: Leadership in the special educational needs/learning Management of Information difficulties Technology to Support 21st Century ROOM: T1.15 Teaching and Learning" ROOM T1.16 IRMSS 1 2019 Provisional Programme
15.30-16.00 PLENARY FORUM
THEME: Educational Leaders: Influence and Engagement in the public and the policy spheres, nationally and internationally ROOM: T1.16 16.00 END OF DAY 1 IRMSS 1 2019 Provisional Programme
DAY 2 - Saturday, May 18th
TIME 8.30-9.00 TEA/COFFEE (TARA BUILDING, An tSli) 09.00-10.00 KEYNOTE 3: PROF. EMER RING, Dean of Education, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. ‘Ambitions for Transitions: Supporting Every Child’s Progression from Early Years Services to Primary School. ROOM T1.16
10.00-11.00 DR TIFFANY J. CRESSWELL-YEAGER, TRACIE TOBIN, National Council for
Assistant Professor of Higher the Curriculum of Assessment Education Leadership, (NCCA). Gwynedd Mercy University. THEME: Leadership in Delivering THEME: First-generation college Equality of Opportunity in Schools. students’ perceptions about the (DEIS) Primary Schools’ Literacy influences affecting their college Initiative choice process in U.S. ROOM: T1.16 ROOM: T1.16 11.00-11.30 BREAK 11.30-12.30 DR JOHANNA FITZGERALD, DR DESIREE’ CALDWELL, Assistant Chairperson of the Special Professor Master Teacher, Educational Needs (SEN) Advisory Gwynedd Mercy University Group at Joint Managerial Body (JMB). THEME: Reading Interventions THEME: Strategic School-wide Relationship to Middle School At- Responses to Inclusive Special Risk Students and the Call for Help Education
ROOM: T1.15 ROOM: T1.16
12.30-13.30 LUNCH (MIC Canteen)
13.30-14.30 KEYNOTE 4: DR JOSEPH O’CONNELL, Director, Limerick Education Centre. ‘School Leadership in “Difficult Conversations” and Conflict Resolution.’ ROOM T1.16 14.30-15.00 BREAK 15.00-16.00 THREE MINUTE THESIS COMPETITION IRMSS 2019
ROOM: T1.16 16.00-17.00 WORKSHOP 5 : 16:00 CONCLUSION - END OF IRMSS 2019, DAY 2