Module 1 - Principal Legal Duties and Responsibilities

(compulsory module)

• 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 using social media?
• What does a principal need to know when investigating the misuse of social media?
• What are the principal's duties and liabilities in relation to the Child and Family Services Act?

Module 2 - Instructional Leadership for School Improvement

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

Module 3 - Leading an Equitable and Inclusive School

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

Module 4 - Mentoring  and School Leadership

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

Module 5 - Building a Digital Leadership Portfolio

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

Module 7 - Professional and Challenging Conversations

• Leading change with professional conversations
• Planning for a challenging conversation
• Crafting an outcome map
• Impressive empathy, reframing, non-verbal behaviours and listening

Module 8 - Leading the Kindergarten Program

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

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

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

Module 10 - Supporting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning (LGBTQ) in Your School

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

Module 11 - Leading the Special Education Program

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

Module 12 - Supporting Leadership in Mathematics

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

Module 13 - Leading Well-Being in Your School

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

Module 14 - Leading the French Immersion School

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

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 16 - Maximizing Your Personal Leadership Resources (PLRs)

• Toolkit to strengthen your Social, Psychological and Cognitive resources
• The research behind the importance of our PLR’s
• Emotional Intelligence (EI) Traits Indicator Survey
• Role specific knowledge of Effective School and Classroom Practices that have a direct impact of student learning

Module 17 - Optimizing Wellness and Life Balance for School Leaders

• Recognizing Compassion Fatigue
• Wellbeing Supports Through Technology
• Reducing the Impact of Difficult Communication
• Dealing with Challenges while Maintaining Your Wellbeing

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 and 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. 

As the OPC is required to comply with the cancellation policy specific to each independent interpreter, it will communicate the cancellation policy to the course candidate in writing. A candidate seeking to cancel their participation in an OPC course must comply with the interpreter’s cancellation policy and be respectful of the associated timelines. Candidates will be held responsible for cancellation fees applied as a result of missing timelines for cancellation.

OPC’s standard refund policy will also apply to all cancellations.