Canterbury and Aoraki Region
CADAP
Canterbury AP and DP Association
Representative: Alison Cleary – Alison.Cleary@buller.ac.nz
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The CADAP Committee meets regularly to plan opportunities for our members to meet, connect and support on a professional level, while maintaining a degree of social activity! Our theme for the year is Empowering Learning, Growing Leaders – and I think we’ve all done some ‘growing’ during the 49 days of ‘Lockdown Levels 4 and 3’.
Pre COVID19, once a term we hold a Friday afternoon seminar, beginning with a light lunch. Each seminar has a guest speaker, a panel discussion and our own version of ‘speed PLD’ – sharing ‘5 in 5’ – 5 slides in 5 minutes of something that works in your kura. As well as this we try to run ‘network groups’ or cluster meetings on a less formal, less regular basis. Where APs and DPs from similar locations can meet to discuss whatever ‘sits on top’ for them.
Our biannual Hanmer Conference is a little up in the air at the moment, with the closing of our regular venue in Hanmer, The Heritage. Currently we are exploring possibilities of what an ‘un-conference’ or ‘online conference’ of ‘pared back’ conference might look like.
Committee Members: CADAP Executive 2020 Jennie Nairn (SMC) Chair. Rebecca Swanson (Mairehau) Sec, Matt White (Burnside) Treasurer , Alison Cleary (Rangiora – NADASP Rep), Melanie L’Eef (Rangi Ruru), Steve Fraser (CBHS), Elizabeth McMeeken(Kaiapoi), Eleanor Sim (Hillmorton), Ros Jackson (Hagley) Robert Aburn (CC), Sonja Bailey (CGHS), Shane Morrow (Riccarton) and Maria Lemalie (Shirley Boys).