{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Leading for Impact with IPPN","title":"Aoife O'Connor on Small Schools","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2048,"description":"Teaching principals in small primary schools struggle to balance full time classroom instruction with an overwhelming invisible workload. Shared leadership structures and collaborative networks offer practical pathways toward long term professional sustainability.\nIn this conversation, school leaders explore strategies for managing multi grade teaching alongside administrative duties. The discussion examines core principles of authentic co leadership, research on principal well-being, and the operational advantages of small school clusters.\nAoife O'Connor serves as Deputy Principal and Acting Principal at Tierneevin National School in Galway. She brings deep experience across diverse educational settings, serving as a pioneer for distributed leadership as the first elected deputy principal on the IPPN Board of Directors.\nTHINGS WE SPOKE ABOUT\n- Career progression across different school settings and leadership roles\n- Core principles of co-leadership and building authentic trust\n- Research insights on well-being for small school leader\n- Balancing classroom teaching with invisible administrative leadership duties\n- Practical benefits of small school clusters and administrative support\nGUEST DETAILS\nAoife O'Connor is Deputy Principal and Acting Principal at Tierneevin National School in south Galway, teaching Junior and Senior Infants. She holds a Masters in the Leadership of Wellbeing in Education from Mary Immaculate College, with her research featured in the IPPN Sustainable Leadership Report. As an Associate with the Oide Leadership Team and the first elected deputy principal to the IPPN Board of Directors, she actively champions collaborative co-leadership and professional mentoring across primary education\nMORE INFORMATION\nIPPN is the officially recognised, professional network for leaders of Irish primary schools. It is an\nindependent, not-for-profit, voluntary association, with a local, regional and national presence.\nIt provides practical resources,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/aJi42R4jdQBofPBLmW-b33-JKAUvRVBOY-VGg9-Wf_8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jZGUw/NjJmNjExYWFlODZm/OWNiYjQ0MzQyYjZi/OTE1ZC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}