Year:

2016-2017

Home Country:

New Zealand

Home Institution:

Waimea College

Teaching Area(s):

Special Education

Years of Teaching Experience:

32

Education:

Master's Degree in Special Education and Research

Sarah Kennedy is a Special Education teacher with over 32 years experience. She has taught in the UK , Singapore and for the last 27 years in Nelson, New Zealand. In 2010 she took on an Acting Principalship for a Residential Girls Special School. Sarah is currently Head of a thriving Special Education Department within a large co-educational secondary school; her 40 students are aged between 11 and 21 years and have learning profiles associated with Autism, Down Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy.

Inquiry Project

Which key elements of leadership most influence a successful Transition process?