We are delighted to host not one, but two Principalmeets at this year’s IPPN Primary Principal’s Conference!

These will take place on January 28th and 29th at CityWest Hotel in Dublin and is open to conference delegates only. To book your place at this year’s conference, visit conference.ippn.ie.

We are currently looking for 20-25 presenters for the two Principalmeets – so if you’re interested, please download our presenters form and return to us at teachmeetireland@gmail.com before Friday 15th January.

We’re delighted to announce our next Teachmeet will take a Christmas theme and will be held in Deansgrange on December 3rd 2015.

This theme will examine some of the amazing projects currently taking place in schools and inspiring resources that are available to us that go beyond the simple day-to-day lessons.

So can you share some tantalising tips, sizzling strategies or innovative ideas with us? Or are you looking to be enthused, excited & energised by similar minded educators?

If so, come join us on Thursday 3rd December at 7:30pm! We may even have a mince pie for you!

Free tickets can now be reserved at our Eventbrite page – and if you’d like to present at the event, have a gander at our Presenters page for more information.

• UPDATE: Our list of presenters is now available – click here to see who’ll be speaking!

We’d also appreciated if our followers could help us spread the word about the event – tweet using the hashtag #TMireland, and print off this flyer to share with colleagues in your staffrooms!

We’re delighted to hear that a Teachmeet is taking place later this month in Dublin at the Ethical Education Conference being organised by the Educate Together movement.

The conference – ‘Understanding ethical education in a modern Irish Republic’ – takes place at the Alexander Hotel on Fenian Street, Dublin 2 on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st November, with the Teachmeet will take place on the Saturday morning from 9:30 to 11. A full conference programme is available here.

The event is being organised by Simon Lewis, the Principal of Carlow ETNS, and Rozz Lewis who teaches at the ETNS in Portlaoise.

While the conference is being run by Educate Together, all teachers are welcome to participate in the Teachmeet, but the organisers have requested that any prospective speaker deal with the subject of ‘Ethics in Education’.

Anyone interested in presenting at the event can email Rozz at rozzlewis@gmail.com.

Please note that this event is not being centrally organised by Teachmeet Ireland.

It’s been around the world… and now, finally, Teachmeet is heading to Leeside!

The first Teachmeet for Cork will take place on the 19th November at 7:30pm at the offices of Trend Micro on the Model Farm Road in Cork city.

The event is booking fast and there are only a limited number of spaces left so get your name in quickly to attend the first Teachmeet for Cork. Registration is through the meeting’s Eventbrite page, available here.

The organisers are still looking for some presenters for the night so please feel free to contact Cormac on teachmeetsouth@gmail.com if you would like any further information, or follow them on Twitter @teachmeetsouth.

We’re delighted to bring you news that, following our visit to the INTO conference earlier this month, there’ll be another Teachmeet taking place in Kilkenny in the coming weeks.

The Kilkenny Education Centre is organising a Teachmeet at its offices on the Callan Road on November 18th kicking off at 7pm.

It’s sure to be a great evening – you can see full details on their flyer here.

You can register to attend at www.eckilkenny.ie, or contact Claire for more information at claire@eckilkenny.ie. The centre is alson Twitter: @eckilkenny.

The founders of Teachmeet Primary East are delighted to announce that they have adopted the name ‘Teachmeet Ireland’.

We feel the new moniker is a more suitable title to best represent our events, as on the whole our previous events have become less and less focussed on the east coast of Ireland. With two national events under our belts already, and another two coming up in October as well as one in January, we’re excited to truly take our work to the national stage.

We’re also absolutely thrilled to confirm we’ll be continuing our local Teachmeet events in and around the Dublin/Wicklow region, but we’re also now taking steps to help others set up local Teachmeet events in other parts of the country. We’ll have more on this soon!

Teachmeet Ireland will be organising a Teachmeet event at The Teaching Council’s FÉILTE conference at the RDS, Dublin on October 3rd.

FÉILTE, the Festival of Education in Learning and Teaching Excellence, is a celebration of teaching where teachers showcase their work in leading innovative learning in schools. Now in its third year, the day provides a platform for teachers to share their stories of innovation with each other and the public. In this way, they are supporting each other and parents in enhancing their own professional practice for the benefit of their pupils and students.

To attend the Teachmeet at Féilte in the RDS, you must be successful in a ‘lottery-style ballot’ that the Teaching Council themselves run. They will email members to alert them to the allocation system well in advance of a draw, and will invite interested parties to apply for tickets, which are free. Only fully-registered members of the Teaching Council will be considered for the draw.

However, the Teaching Council has agreed to guarantee a ticket to anyone giving a presentation at our Teachmeet event – meaning if you sign up to speak at our event, you can bypass the lottery system and secure a free ticket to attend the whole day’s events!

So: if you’re going to this event, and are interested in giving a presentation yourself, then click here to download the presenters’ form.

Teachmeet Ireland will be organising a Teachmeet event at the INTO Principals’ and Deputy Principals’ conference at the Newpark Hotel, Kilkenny on October 3rd.

This event is geared specifically at those in management positions in schools and to allow them to share insights and resources with each other.

Attendance at this Teachmeet is limited to conference delegates only, as selected at a local level.

If you’re going to this event, and are interested in giving a presentation yourself, then click here to download the presenters’ form.

Teachmeet Ireland is delighted to announce that it will be once again facilitating a Teachmeet event at the 2016 IPPN conference. More details will be released well in advance of the event, which has been pencilled in for January 2016.

Exciting news! We have recently confirmed a collaboration with ChangeX. Our goal is to help other groups to establish Teachmeets in their own areas around Ireland and to help each other other deliver more innovative and exciting education in this country.

More to come soon!