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<strong>ESHA</strong> CONFERENCE 2012<br />

You will have seen, in previous editions of the<br />

<strong>ESHA</strong> magazine, the adverts and articles for the<br />

<strong>ESHA</strong> biennial conference in Edinburgh. You may<br />

have visited the dedicated conference website:<br />

www.esha2012scotland.com<br />

Bookings are now starting to come in for the<br />

conference and I wanted to give you a nudge to<br />

encourage you book your place sooner rather than<br />

later as places are limited.<br />

I hope to see you in Edinburgh in October!<br />

GREG DEMPSTER<br />

The theme for the conference is ‘Connecting Leadership’ –<br />

addressing one of the core purposes of <strong>ESHA</strong> and one of the biggest<br />

issues in school leadership.<br />

We all know that the role of a school leader can be an isolated one.<br />

Isolation is the enemy of improvement. It is important that we<br />

all make sure that we build links with colleagues locally, nationally<br />

and internationally to ensure we are aware of and can learn from<br />

practice elsewhere. To make this easy for delegates, we will highlight<br />

on delegate badges which school sector delegates are from along<br />

with their school size. On the third day of conference we will build on<br />

this opportunity to build relationships and links by working in groups<br />

of colleagues with similar schools.<br />

Over three days the conference will have three sub-themes:<br />

<strong>ESHA</strong> MAGAZINE APRIL 2012 11

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