My Commitment

My vision is a strong, democratic, campaigning INTO that is constantly striving to realise a properly resourced and funded primary school system that allows teachers and principals get on with the job of teaching and leading. If elected General Secretary I commit to working with our Central Executive Committee, Annual Congress, our Officers and our National Committees and doing my absolute best to:

1. protect and enhance:
   • your pay
   • your conditions of service
   • your promotional opportunities
   • your professional entitlement
2. support:
   • your leadership and administrative needs
   • your learning needs
   • your classroom practice
3. promote
   • fairness, equality and opportunity for teachers and pupils regardless of background, gender, socio-economic status, sexual orientation or culture
   • the need for fair and balanced social policies that better enable teachers’ family and work-life balance needs

My initial priorities will be

Your Pay/Terms and Conditions

• removing pay inequality in the ROI and progressing in pay talks in Northern Ireland
• workload:
  • reclaiming teaching for teachers
  • mediating the overwhelming role and responsibly of the principal, particularly the teaching principal
• ensuring school leaders are appropriately remunerated including and supported and that the outstanding principals’ benchmarking award is applied

Your Professional Needs

• consulting with teachers in DEIS schools to identify actual supports required
•  increasing INTO learning and development opportunities for leaders, SEN teachers and classroom teachers
• providing INTO opportunities to showcase and disseminate member learning and research
• working with other unions to lobby for an increase in early intervention health and social supports for pupils

How INTO interacts with you

• increasing participation at our local Branch meetings and therefore strengthening the democratic structures of our union
• facilitating more effective two-way communications with you

• providing guidance to schools to better support LGBT+ colleagues and pupils