Category Staff experience

On Becoming a Deputy Principal

Our Principals and Deputy Principals play a key senior leadership role in our school communities. Shane McArt was appointed as a Deputy Principal to Deele College in Raphoe just over a year ago and in this blog he reflects on…

A Love of Reading – Read DL Explained

Emilia Niewulska is one of our Adult Literacy Organisers and also a committee member of the county-wide Read Donegal (Read DL) initiative which is currently underway. In this blog she tells us more about this reading initiative which we’ve supported since…

Teaching Digital Citizenship

Pauline Doherty is an ICT and Accounts Teacher in our Milford Further Education and Training (FET) Centre and is a member of the Community of Practice team that developed a Digital Citizenship website for both our post-primary and FET students…

A Year in the Life of a New Principal

We directly manage fifteen of the county’s twenty-seven post-primary schools and are a trustee partner for a further eight Community and Comprehensive schools. Our school Principals play a vital leadership role in managing our school communities but what does this…

Being Cyber Aware

Ciaran Cunningham

Ciaran Cunningham is our Head of IT and following a number of high-profile cyber attacks this year, he spearheaded our adoption of a cyber secure solution to mobile phone use, the first ETB in the country to do so and…