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:
- protect and enhance:
- your pay
- your conditions of service
- your promotional opportunities
- your professional entitlement
- support:
- your leadership and administrative needs
- your learning needs
- your classroom practice
- 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