Lead the Way
This series hopes to build educational leadership capacity in Ireland and beyond by facilitating the sharing of the leadership journey of people in a variety of educational settings.
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Ep 94 Learning about LIFT Ireland with Co-founder Joanne Hession (opens the original)
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LIFT stands for leading Ireland's Future Together . It is a social enterprise aimed at increasing the level of positive leadership in Ireland. LIFT is being rolled out nationwide via a facilitator network in LIFT's partner organisations and individual volunteers. The LIFT programme is an eight-part, group learning programme. It is a 5-step self-reflective roundtable personal leadership process focusing on core human values. When consistently repeated, it creates lasting change through small but
Ep 93 Why a Principal is leaving the role after 5 years (opens the original)
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Máire Coates has been the Principal of Monaseed National School for 5 years up to 2026, a vibrant, rural primary school situated in Gorey, County Wexford. She has decided to step away from this teaching Principal role for a few reasons and talks also about why she set up her Instagram page PrincipalTemplates to help other new Principals starting out. Máire kindly informed me these podcasts really helped her in the early days of being a Principal so she is now paying it forward! https://www.insta
Ep 92 Navigating Meetings and Schools through a Leadership/ Followership Lens with Associate Professor Niekie Blom (opens the original)
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Dr. Nicolaas (Niekie) Blom is an Associate Professor in Educational Leadership in University of Limerick. He is the course director of the Postgraduate Diploma in School Leadership, as well as the International Masters in Educational Leadership. Niekie is a qualified Design and Technology teacher. In this episode, we discuss a topic he has been working on a lot lately: followership, particularly the ways in which people move between leading and following in their everyday work. We cannot all lea
Ep 91 Clodagh Kelly, Chief Executive of Tipperary ETB; Insights into School Leadership (opens the original)
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Clodagh Kelly began her teaching career in 1994 in John theBaptist Community School. From there, in 2010, she took on the role of Principal of Newport College for 10 years. In 2020, she became Director of Schools for Tipperary ETB, whereby she supported 10 post-primary schools, one CommunityNational School (Nenagh CNS), one high support primary school (Coláiste Shliabh na mBan), Nenagh Community Special School, Music Generation programmes, youth work provision across the county, and managed the
Ep 90 The Essential Parents' Guide to College with Joan Broderick of www.pathways.ie (opens the original)
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Joan Broderick is founder of www.pathways.ie, a platformdedicated to supporting parents and students during the transition from secondary school to college in Ireland. She has 30 years’ experience in education and healthcare,she is a former college health nurse and access toeducation coordinator who has supported students dealing with hardship, disability, and personal struggles. As a mum to three college graduates , she has lived this journey herself, more than once. That experience, combined w
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