Online Journal among BAPPSS plans

Information shared during the Barbados Association of Principals of Public Secondary Schools’ (BAPPSS’) Educational Conference will be featured in an online journal.

Conference Chairperson, Dr. David Browne said this is one of the future plans of BAPPSS. He added that the attendees will be handed copies of the presentations made during the sessions.

“Many people meet in conferences and they talk their talk, people accuse it of being a talk shop and then nothing happens. That will not happen in this case.”

He further stated, “everybody in there is going to leave with enlightening experience but we are going to follow it up with the information from the conference and you have something in your hand and we want to see it put in place… In the future, we are going to have an online journal, we are going to do research into the schools and publish the information and we are also going to sponsor an annual lecture.”

Browne spoke to the media on the side-lines of Tuesday’s staging of the three-day conference at St Ann’s Fort.

BAPPSS' President, Juanita Wade said the association was pleased with the response the event received. A total of 65 members were slated to attend on the day. She explained that the sessions were hosted to allow “principals, deputy principals and senior teachers, heads of departments to come together and to discuss matters that relate to leadership and education.” She also revealed why the day’s topics were being discussed.

“We feel that the principal is very important in the school and the way that we manage the schools; the way we lead the schools will help to determine how that school is going to progress and therefore we have chosen ‘Creative Leadership In Challenging Times’ because we are in challenging times in more than one kind of way. We thought we would look at ‘The Educator and The Law’ and we also wanted to look at Technological Advances as they relate to leadership particularly, so those are three of the areas that we decided that we would look at.”