Term 2 Making Connections Day Thursday 6th June 2024
Come along and join your colleagues for our Term 2 Making Connection, to be held at FMG Waikato Stadium.
Featuring NZPF President Leanne Otene and Patrick Walsh, Principal Educator
Connection Days
Term 2 Making Connections Day Thursday 6th June 2024
$150.00
Leanne Otene (Te Arawa), Principal of Manaia View School, is a member of the education community who needs little introduction. She has built a reputation as an empathetic, informed, engaging and approachable member of the principals’ community, with her finger on the pulse of current issues in education. In 2021, Otene won the Outstanding Mentor Award and the Founders’ Principal’s Award for Leadership at the National Excellence in Teaching Awards
(NEiTA). Now, Otene is first wahine Māori President of the New Zealand Principals’ Federation.
When asked “How do you view your new role as President of the NZPF?” Her response was “First and foremost, the purpose of NZPF is to advocate for principals. So my mantra is to listen, to learn, and to act.”
Patrick has spent 35 years in Education serving students and the Profession in school leadership and
at the National level.This has included ten years as Deputy Principal of De la Salle College, seventeen
years as Principal of John Paul College, three years as President of SPANZ, Chair of SIEBA, nine years
on the Disciplinary Tribunal of the NZ Teaching Council ,President of SPANZ Union,President of
ANZELA (NZ Chapter)elected Secondary School Principal representative on the NZ Teaching Council, former Chair of the NZ Law Society Seminars on Education Law.
Availability: 3 in stock
