Teacher CPD · Primary Schools EPV / Summer

Leading STEM in your School

This course equips school leaders with practical tools to integrate STEM and digital learning across the institution, drawing on national policy frameworks. Participants conduct audits of infrastructure and leadership efficacy, develop procurement strategies, foster staff capacity through mentoring and CPD, address inclusion via UDL and ethics, and craft actionable digital plans with SMART targets and monitoring protocols.
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EPV / Summer Course
€79
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What's included
  • Self paced
  • Online course
  • Step-by-step lessons
  • Certificate from Coding Ireland
Approved by
Drumcondra Education Centre Department of Education

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19 lessons across 5 modules

Participants examine the national policy landscape that shapes digital and STEM leadership in Irish primary schools. They use the Digital Learning Framework as an audit tool to evaluate where their school currently sits on the continuum, and draft a Digital Vision Statement that aligns the school's specific ethos with national priorities.

Welcome and Leadership Confidence Audit Beginner
The Digital Strategy for Schools to 2027 Beginner
The DLF Continuum: Effective Vs Highly Effective Beginner
Crafting Your School's Digital Vision Statement Beginner

Participants move from vision to infrastructure. They learn to audit the current digital reality of the school, plan sustainable procurement against a realistic budget, evaluate platform choices for GDPR compliance, and design a maintenance strategy that protects the school's investment over a 3 to 5 year cycle.

The Digital Infrastructure Mini-audit Beginner
Sustainable Procurement & the €5k Budget Challenge Beginner
Platform Selection & GDPR Compliance Beginner
Maintenance, Lifecycle & the Total Cost of Ownership Beginner

Participants address the single biggest barrier to whole-school digital change: staff confidence and culture. They develop strategies to mentor reluctant adopters, design effective in-house CPD that respects colleagues' time, and form a Digital Team that distributes the leadership load.

Mentoring the Reluctant Adopter Beginner
Designing In-house CPD (the Croke Park Hour) Beginner
Distributed Leadership: Forming a Digital Team Beginner

Participants examine the inclusion and ethics dimensions of whole-school digital practice. They apply Universal Design for Learning to the digital plan, audit and update the Acceptable Use Policy for current realities (AI, smartphones, social media), evaluate assistive technologies, and develop a stance on digital citizenship that goes beyond stranger-danger messaging.

UDL in the School Digital Plan Beginner
Updating the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) Beginner
Assistive Technology & Bridging the Digital Divide Beginner
AI, Social Media & Digital Citizenship Beginner

Participants synthesise the course's policy, infrastructure, people, and inclusion strands into a coherent draft Digital Learning Plan. They use the SSE 6-step process as the structuring spine, write SMART targets, design a monitoring strategy, and complete the capstone: a draft DLP and a 'first move' plan for September.

The SSE 6-step Process for STEM Beginner
Drafting SMART Targets for STEM Improvement Beginner
Monitoring, Review & Success Criteria Beginner
Capstone — Your Digital Learning Plan + First Move Beginner

Participants examine the national policy landscape that shapes digital and STEM leadership in Irish primary schools. They use the Digital Learning Framework as an audit tool to evaluate where their school currently sits on the continuum, and draft a Digital Vision Statement that aligns the school's specific ethos with national priorities.

Welcome and Leadership Confidence Audit Beginner
The Digital Strategy for Schools to 2027 Beginner
The DLF Continuum: Effective Vs Highly Effective Beginner
Crafting Your School's Digital Vision Statement Beginner

Participants move from vision to infrastructure. They learn to audit the current digital reality of the school, plan sustainable procurement against a realistic budget, evaluate platform choices for GDPR compliance, and design a maintenance strategy that protects the school's investment over a 3 to 5 year cycle.

The Digital Infrastructure Mini-audit Beginner
Sustainable Procurement & the €5k Budget Challenge Beginner
Platform Selection & GDPR Compliance Beginner
Maintenance, Lifecycle & the Total Cost of Ownership Beginner

Participants address the single biggest barrier to whole-school digital change: staff confidence and culture. They develop strategies to mentor reluctant adopters, design effective in-house CPD that respects colleagues' time, and form a Digital Team that distributes the leadership load.

Mentoring the Reluctant Adopter Beginner
Designing In-house CPD (the Croke Park Hour) Beginner
Distributed Leadership: Forming a Digital Team Beginner

Participants examine the inclusion and ethics dimensions of whole-school digital practice. They apply Universal Design for Learning to the digital plan, audit and update the Acceptable Use Policy for current realities (AI, smartphones, social media), evaluate assistive technologies, and develop a stance on digital citizenship that goes beyond stranger-danger messaging.

UDL in the School Digital Plan Beginner
Updating the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) Beginner
Assistive Technology & Bridging the Digital Divide Beginner
AI, Social Media & Digital Citizenship Beginner

Participants synthesise the course's policy, infrastructure, people, and inclusion strands into a coherent draft Digital Learning Plan. They use the SSE 6-step process as the structuring spine, write SMART targets, design a monitoring strategy, and complete the capstone: a draft DLP and a 'first move' plan for September.

The SSE 6-step Process for STEM Beginner
Drafting SMART Targets for STEM Improvement Beginner
Monitoring, Review & Success Criteria Beginner
Capstone — Your Digital Learning Plan + First Move Beginner

What You'll Learn

Learning Goals

  1. Develop a strategic vision for whole-school digital transformation aligned with national policies and frameworks.
  2. Optimise digital infrastructure, procurement, and resource management for sustainable implementation.
  3. Build staff capacity and foster a collaborative culture to support digital adoption and innovation.
  4. Integrate principles of inclusion, ethics, and digital citizenship into school-wide digital practices.
  5. Create and monitor actionable digital learning plans that drive measurable STEM improvements.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Conduct a baseline audit of school digital infrastructure and leadership self-efficacy, identifying key barriers to whole-school digital change.
  2. Draft a school-specific Digital Vision Statement aligned with the Digital Strategy for Schools to 2027 and the Digital Learning Framework continuum.
  3. Develop a sustainable procurement proposal and GDPR-compliant platform selection strategy, incorporating total cost of ownership analysis.
  4. Design a distributed leadership structure and in-house CPD plan to build staff capacity and address digital reluctance among colleagues.
  5. Synthesise module outputs into a SMART-targeted Digital Learning Plan integrated with SSE processes, defining monitoring criteria and an initial implementation action.

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