Module 1 - Principal Legal Duties and Responsibilities

(compulsory module)

• What are the principal's duties and liabilities in relation to the Child and Family Services Act?
• What are the principal's legal duties and responsibilities?
• What does it mean to be an “agent of the board?”
• What does a principal need to know when investigating the misuse of social media?
• What does a principal need to know when using social media?

Module 2 - Instructional Leadership for School Improvement

• Co-leading the instructional program
• Instructional leadership and school management
• School culture and its impact on learning and teaching
• Student-centred learning

Module 3 - Leading an Equitable and Inclusive School

• Equity, inclusivity, social justice and schools
• Mindsets and equitable schools
• Positive school culture and leadership
• Privilege, bias and culturally responsive and relevant leadership

Module 4 - Mentoring  and School Leadership

• How can leaders create a culture of Mentoring?
• To what extent can Mentoring skills enable leaders to successfully navigate hard conversations?
• To what extent can Mentoring skills improve relationships and organizational culture?
• What Mentoring attributes and/or skills do great leaders exhibit?

Module 5 - Building a Digital Leadership Portfolio

• Creating a digital leadership portfolio
• Creating a school and personal blog
• Creating a school and personal website
• Leading a collaborative inquiry

Module 7 - Courageous Conversations

• Lead schools as diverse workplaces

• Plan for and participate in courageous conversations

• Use strategies such as an Outcome Map to engage in courageous conversations that build trusting relationships and include impressive empathy, listening for meaning and asking powerful questions

• Continue to engage in courageous conversations which challenge traditional leadership practices and foster a school climate of inclusion, equity, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and anti-colonialism to support all staff and students

Module 8 - Leading the Kindergarten Program

• Dealing with uncertainties in pedagogical documentation
• Four frames of the kindergarten program
• Play-based learning in a culture of inquiry
• Principal as co-learner in creating the conditions for learning

Module 9 - Leading the Innovative School ** (updated with an emphasis on supporting distance learning) 

• A shared vision of learning in a digital age
• Creating a culture of learning
• Innovative learning spaces
• Monitoring virtual spaces
• Rethinking digital citizenship
• Supporting virtual instruction and assessment
• Supporting virtual students and their families

Module 10 - Supporting Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex or Asexual (2SLGBTQQIA+) in Your School

• Exploring bias and student agency
• Fostering allies
• Fostering personal leadership resources
• Intersectionality

Module 11 - Leading the Special Education Program

• Building collaborative partnerships with parents
• Building the staff capacity to meet the needs of all students
• The complexities of Special Education student aggression
• The law, Special Education and the Individual Education Plan (IEP)

Module 12 - Supporting Leadership in Mathematics

• Assessment and evaluation
• Effective instructional approaches in effective math classrooms
• Foundational knowledge in mathematics
• Implications for professional learning and school improvement planning

Module 13 - The Principal's Role in Mental Health Awareness and Trauma-informed Schools

• A tiered support model for school mental health and well-being
• Creating mentally healthy schools
• Establishing a common language and understanding
• Everyday mental health practices

Module 14 - Leading the French Immersion School

• Effective practices in French Immersion classrooms
• French Immersion teacher retention and developing the French Immersion program
• Inclusion in the French Immersion program
• The evolution of French Immersion in Ontario

Module 15 - I Stand in Treaty

• Pre-contact to the Indian Act
• The Indian Act to Indian Residential Schools
• The White Paper to the Apology
• The Truth and Reconciliation Commission to Decolonization

Module 18 – Anti-Oppressive School Improvement

• Critical Pedagogy, Anti-Oppression and Indigenous Education
• Equity, Anti-Oppression and School Improvement – Application
• Interrogating SIP Goals & School Learning Plan from an Anti-Oppressive Space
• Positive School Culture and Leadership - Moving Forward

A full refund is available if you cancel up to two weeks before the start date, less a $50.00 non-refundable registration fee.

A $100.00 refund is available if you cancel one week before the start date.

There is no refund for cancellations after the start date.

A full refund applies when a session is cancelled due to low enrollment.