IRMSS 1 2019 Provisional Programme

‘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
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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
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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
Education Leadership,
Gwynedd Mercy University.
THEME: First-generation college
students’ perceptions about the
influences affecting their college
choice process in U.S.
ROOM: T1.16
11.00-11.30
11.30-12.30
DR JOHANNA FITZGERALD,
Chairperson of the Special
Educational Needs (SEN) Advisory
Group at Joint Managerial Body
(JMB).
THEME: Strategic School-wide
Responses to Inclusive Special
Education
the Curriculum of Assessment
(NCCA).
THEME: Leadership in Delivering
Equality of Opportunity in Schools.
(DEIS) Primary Schools’ Literacy
Initiative
ROOM: T1.16
BREAK
DR DESIREE’ CALDWELL, Assistant
Professor Master Teacher,
Gwynedd Mercy University
THEME: Reading Interventions
Relationship to Middle School At-
Risk Students and the Call for Help

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