These offerings provide a range of opportunities for Members to collaborate and connect on different topics and professional responsibilities. 

Equity Connections

Equity Connections is a series of opportunities for school leaders to engage in conversations that deepen their understanding of anti-racism and anti-oppression. These facilitated sessions are designed to maximize sharing of ideas, especially those connected to creating anti-oppressive school environments and where all students can thrive and grow.

After Plans, Processes and Portraits: Disability and Difference in Schools  

Description: The ways in which we encounter and "manage" disability in our profession as school leaders, centre around institutional and bureaucratic understandings of disability, access, and inclusion. While we all strive for inclusion for all students, there exist opportunities for new meanings to emerge, particularly how disability makes appearances in schools and how we respond, or don't respond to those appearances. 

This session will begin to unpack and untangle some of those understandings not just around ableism in schools, but also provide new ways to begin to think through disability, that goes beyond what we typically think of as "special education", and even "inclusion and access".

Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. EDT

Cost: Free for OPC Members and associate members. Non-members - $50.00 + HST

Facilitator: Jeff Hall, Co-ordinating Vice-Principal, Peel District School Board

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Jeff Hall is a Co-ordinating Vice-Principal in the Special Education and Social Emotional Learning Deparment in the Peel District School Board. He is also a doctoral student in Disability Studies at OISE/UT.

Indigenous Connections

Indigenous Connections is a series of opportunities for school leaders to engage in conversations that deepen their understanding of Indigenous history, heritage, and culture. These facilitated sessions are designed to maximize peer-to-peer connection and sharing of ideas, especially those connected to creating school environments that acknowledge and honour Indigenous ways of knowing and being, and where all students can thrive and grow.

Indigenous Connections: Creating Space for Urban Indigenous Youth

Description: Indigenous students have a right to an education in their own culture that is free from discrimination.  It is important to create space for Indigenous people to lead educational initiatives that will impact Indigenous students. This session will discuss the work of opening the Maawnjiding Wiigushkeng Centre for Indigenous Excellence and Land Based Learning in the Peel District School Board and the importance of creating space that centers relationships First Nations, Métis and Inuit students, families and community, built in trust and mutual respect.

Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. EST

Cost: Free for OPC Members and associates. Non-members - $50.00 + HST

Location: Online via Zoom

Facilitator: Nicole Reynolds, Indigenous Education, Peel District School Board

Please ensure you register through the correct link.

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Nicole Reynolds is Lenape (Turtle Clan) who’s family is from Six Nations of the Grand River. She serves as Coordinating Vice-Principal of Indigenous Education for the Peel District School Board. In her role she leads the system in building capacity for Education for Reconciliation and honouring and upholding the distinct Rights of First Nations, Métis and Inuit students and families throughout the board. Currently she leads the Indigenous Education Team at the new Maawnjiding Wiigushkeng Centre for Indigenous Excellence and Land Based Learning.

Professional Learning Networks (PLN)

RSVP for reminders to upcoming dates. Join a network for supportive, engaging learning opportunities with colleagues. Whether you stop in for one or attend all sessions, you are welcome to come share ideas, strategies, experiences and learning needs.

Adult and Continuing Education
This PLN focuses on the opportunities and challenges of leading adult/continuing education programs in school districts. Driven by participant voices, this is an opportunity for Members with responsibility for, or interest in, leading adult/continuing education programs to engage with colleagues to share ideas, strategies, experiences and learning needs. Please join us in this supportive, engaging learning opportunity.

2023-24 Session Dates

Tuesdays

  • October 10, 2023

  • November 28, 2023

  • February 13, 2024

  • May 7, 2024

Time: 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. EDT/EST

Cost: Free for Members and Associates

Facilitator: Lawrence DeMaeyer, OPC Professional Learning Advisor

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*Please note that by completing the RSVP form you will be invited to all sessions. Members are welcome to join at any time, even if you have missed earlier sessions.

Leadership Development

Leadership development continues to be an important focus for all school districts, including support and learning for emerging leaders and newly appointed administrators. This PLN is for Members who are involved in leadership development activities in their districts to come together and share some of their ideas, strategies and experiences. Whether you are in a central role or are a committee member that supports leadership development and are interested in forming a network to connect and share, this PLN will be for you.

2023-24 Session Dates

Tuesdays

  • October 17, 2023

  • December 5, 2023 *rescheduled to January 16, 2024

  • February 27, 2024

  • May 14, 2024

Time: 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. EDT/EST

Cost: Free for Members and Associates

Facilitator: Lawrence DeMaeyer, OPC Professional Learning Advisor

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*Please note that by completing the RSVP form you will be invited to all sessions. Members are welcome to join at any time, even if you have missed earlier sessions.

Safe Schools

This PLN focuses on the opportunities and challenges of leading the Safe and Caring Schools/Student Discipline portfolio in school districts. Driven by participant voices, this is an opportunity for Members with responsibility for Safe and Caring Schools to engage with colleagues to share ideas, strategies, experiences and learning needs. Please join us in this supportive, engaging learning opportunity.

2023-24 Session Dates

Thursdays

  • October 12, 2023

  • November 30, 2023

  • February 15, 2024

  • May 9, 2024

Time: 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. EDT/EST

Cost: Free for Members and Associates

Facilitator: Lawrence DeMaeyer, OPC Professional Learning Advisor

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*Please note that by completing the RSVP form you will be invited to all sessions. Members are welcome to join at any time, even if you have missed earlier sessions.

Vice-principal Perspectives

Open conversations for vice-principals driven by participant voices on relevant and important topics of the day. 

Topics may include

  • authentic engagement to drive school improvement 

  • transitions and how to prepare for a new role in school leadership and

  • leading and coaching people.

2023-24 Session Dates

Tuesdays

  • November 7, 2023
  • December 12, 2023
  • February 6, 2024
  • March 26, 2024
  • April 16, 2024 
  • May 21, 2024
  • June 18, 2024

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. EDT/EST

Cost: Free for Members and Associates

Facilitator: Susie Lee-Fernandes, OPC Director of Professional Learning

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*Please note that by completing the RSVP form you will be invited to all sessions. Members are welcome to join at any time, even if you have missed earlier sessions.

Virtual Schools

This PLN focuses on the opportunities and challenges of leading virtual schools. Driven by participant voices, this is an opportunity for Members with responsibility or interest in leading virtual schools to engage with colleagues to share ideas, strategies, experiences and learning needs. Please join us in this supportive, engaging learning opportunity.

2023-24 Session Dates

Thursdays

  • October 19, 2023

  • December 6, 2023 *exception (meeting Wednesday instead)

  • February 29, 2024

  • May 16, 2024

Time: 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. EDT/EST

Cost: Free for Members and Associates

Facilitators: 

  • Lawrence DeMaeyer, OPC Professional Learning Advisor
  • Shaundell Parris, Durham DSB

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*Please note that by completing the RSVP form you will be invited to all sessions. Members are welcome to join at any time, even if you have missed earlier sessions.