These offerings provide a range of opportunities for Members to collaborate and connect on different topics and professional responsibilities.
| Equity Connections |
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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 SchoolsDescription: 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 Please ensure you register through the correct link. 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. |
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Indigenous Connections |
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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.
Expanding our Understanding of Success Through the Lens of Indigenous Perspectives and our Shared ResponsibilitiesDescription: You are invited to a presentation and conversation focused on building and expanding our understandings of success, through meaningful dialogue focused on responsibilities to misiwe (all), Land, Treaties, kiwakimakinak (our relatives), the TRC Calls to Action, the final report on Missing and Murder Indigenous Women, and 2 Spirit folks, and Indian Control of Indian Education (1972). This session will help school leaders identify ways to create space in schools for this critical awareness and conversation. Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2024 Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. EDT Cost: Free for OPC Members and associates. Non-members - $50.00 + HST Location: Online via Zoom Facilitator: Kyl Morrison, Instructional Coach, First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Education for the Ottawa Carleton District School Board Please ensure you register through the correct link. Kyl is responsible for programs supporting Indigenous students at OCDSB and for offering professional development opportunities to staff. He is available to make presentations at staff meetings. Kyl also maintains positive relationships with community partners. |
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 DatesTuesdays
Time: 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. EDT/EST Cost: Free for Members and Associates Facilitator: Lawrence DeMaeyer, OPC Professional Learning Advisor *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 |
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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 DatesTuesdays
Time: 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. EDT/EST Cost: Free for Members and Associates Facilitator: Lawrence DeMaeyer, OPC Professional Learning Advisor *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 |
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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 DatesThursdays
Time: 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. EDT/EST Cost: Free for Members and Associates Facilitator: Lawrence DeMaeyer, OPC Professional Learning Advisor *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 |
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Open conversations for vice-principals driven by participant voices on relevant and important topics of the day. Topics may include
2023-24 Session DatesTuesdays
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. EDT/EST Cost: Free for Members and Associates Facilitator: Susie Lee-Fernandes, OPC Director of Professional Learning *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 |
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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 DatesThursdays
Time: 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. EDT/EST Cost: Free for Members and Associates Facilitators:
*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. |
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