ISASA Region: North East

The ISASA Deputy Heads’ Conference 2021 will take place from Monday 14 February – Wednesday 16 February 2022 at Bridge House School.

This workshop assists schools in dealing with legal issues in the employment environment, including fair employment practices and disciplinary issues involving staff at a school.

This conference with top international and local experts is designed to help you achieve one goal: Power Thinking in Uncertain Times. Presented by Thinking Schools South Africa.

Part 1 of this workshop series aims to convey the essence of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI or POPIA) to Heads and other decision makers in independent schools. It provides a high-level overview of the Act which focuses on the requirements of POPIA, aspects of legal liability and risk, as well as understanding the processes that must be followed in order to achieve compliance.

As almost all schools will have to at some stage deal with the media, either print, broadcast or online, it is essential that they have the tools to cope with challenging crises; a time when good communication is crucial. This ISASA workshop on focuses on crisis communication and how best to deal with the media.

This workshop aims to provide school staff with insight as well as key skills required for handling interpersonal conflict with both internal stakeholders (for example, colleagues, superiors and subordinates) and external stakeholders (in particular, parents of students). The workshop will enable participants to recognize, interpret and effectively respond to, deal with and work through various forms of interpersonal conflict.

Good governance is an essential factor of any successful independent school.  The ISASA Governance workshop covers the underlying principles of good governance, as well and the King Code of Corporate Governance and international best governance practice in independent schools.

This webinar aims to assist schools in critically evaluating their culture and how it affects the creation of a respectful and inclusive experience for everyone in the school community – pupils, staff, parents and alumni. The workshop will take racism as its focus but will also address other forms of discrimination.

A workshop on collecting school fees and effective debt management for schools.

The workshop is aimed particularly at senior staff members who are responsible for performance appraisals of staff (professional, administrative and support staff) to encourage the buy-in of constructive engagement with the annual process of staff evaluation or evaluation for the purpose of granting a permanent contract of employment or those under review.

This workshop will provide practical guidance to schools about the role and responsibilities of the information officer (and other key managers in the school) in terms of the POPIA compliance journey in general, and where and how to start.

In a COVID-19 environment, School Marketing has changed, fundamentally, with the school marketer, admissions and development team all having to rethink their tactics to rely more on strategy.

This two-session online workshop aims to address the specific challenges caused by COVID-19 in attracting and retaining stakeholder interest and commitment. These stakeholders would include pupils and parents but also sponsors/donors and alumni.

The SABISA Conference 2022 takes place from 29 May – 1 June in Cape Town.