The School of Educational Administrators is investigating the idea of holding a national School Administrators’ Day.

Several members of the SEA’s executive committee were recently involved in Dyscalculia Day, which highlighted the need to help the many people who find maths impossibly hard.  The campaign led to two spots of BBC Breakfast TV, an interview on the BBC World Service, and a half hour programme on Radio 4 - as well as numerous local radio interviews.

The aim of School Administrators’ Day would be to raise the profile of  school administrators, whose work is often ignored.  The idea would be to present  examples of the selfless work of tens of thousands of school administrators day after day.

The hope is that publicity will focus on some of the major achievements of school administrators in the past year, but point out that in some schools the administrators are just treated as people who answer the phone and do the photocopying, rather than a source of new ideas.

The SEA is looking both for case studies of administrators who have made a difference, and for volunteers who would be willing to talk on radio or TV about their work as administrators.  If you feel you would like to help - just drop an email to [1] Tony@schools.co.uk    More deatails about School Administrators’ Day will be released via the school admin newsgroup.   If you are not a member just send an email to [2] ad.admin@schools.co.uk with the word Subscribe in the subject line of the email.