Chair
Kate Slattery, Deputy Principal, Epsom Girls Grammar School
Getting Student Discipline Right Under the Education & Training Act
- The principal’s stand down and suspension decisions under section 80
- What is gross misconduct?
- What is continual disobedience?
- Setting up the Board and the student for a suspension meeting
- The Board’s decision at the suspension meeting
- Setting conditions for the student’s return to school
- Breach of conditions and holding a reconsideration meeting
- Parent requests for a review of the principal and Board decisions
- Role of the Ombudsman in reviewing the school’s process
Presented by Gretchen Stone, Partner, Harrison Stone
Learning Objectives:
- Navigate legal frameworks for fair student discipline and suspension processes
Description
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Presenters
Gretchen Stone, Partner, Harrison Stone
Gretchen Stone specialises in employment and education law. She advises secondary principals through the Secondary Principals Association of New Zealand and with primary principals as the Honorary Solicitor for Auckland Primary Principals Association. Gretchen has extensive experience advising Principals and Board of Trustees in relation to employment and disciplinary issues, governance and management, student discipline issues, social media, and all areas of legal liability within the education sector.
Kate Slattery, Deputy Principal, Epsom Girls Grammar School
Kate Slattery is Deputy Principal at Epsom Girls Grammar School. She has been at Epsom Girls since 2016, having worked in large Auckland secondary schools and overseas prior to 7 years in tertiary education focusing on course development and lecturer education. She has a passion for working with people and her current role includes Human Resources and Personnel. As Deputy Principal, Kate works with students, staff and whānau with a focus on facilitating learning through often challenging circumstances. Her diverse role ranges from navigating conflict, challenging behaviours and competency to learning engagement and still enjoying being a teacher in Aotearoa New Zealand. Kate sings with Auckland’s Jubilation Choir and relishes the performance opportunities this has brought her, there’s always something new to look forward to.
