Summer Learning

Our Professional Learning Team has collaborated with experts from a variety of backgrounds to deliver topics relevant to school leaders. Learning sessions are being offered throughout July. In addition, the Leading Forward Together Conference will take place in Toronto on August 18, 2022.

Learning Sessions

Foundational Coaching Skills Part One and Two – July 7 and 8

The Foundational Coaching Skills Training Part One and Two is offered in two full day sessions that can be booked individually or together. Completion of Part One is required to participate in Part Two.

Since 2007, the Mentor-Coaching Institute has provided participants- administrators, supervisory officers, teachers and district employees – with an enhanced skill set that supports capacity building in a variety of educational contexts. This course grew out of continuous requests from educators for in depth training in the specific skills needed to be coach-like as a leader/teacher.

In each session, participants will be provided with many opportunities to practice and integrate the skills, attitudes, behaviours and conversational pathways that a coach-like leader or teacher-leader needs to inhabit when working with teachers, students, other administrators, colleagues or parents/ caregivers.

The training has been designed for a maximum of 35 participants.

Learning Objectives – Part One

Introducing the coaching model, basic coaching skills, principles, and tools.
Developing concrete coaching skills for communicating and facilitating conversations with increased attention and intention.
Developing coaching skills for supporting mentee learning and growth through the use of impactful questions, deep listening and meaningful feedback.
Engaging in coaching practice: demonstration coaching, peer coaching with guided observation and reflection.
Setting intentions for key areas of learning and the integration of coaching skills within leadership.

Follow Up - Part One

Virtual Roundtable: Integrating and Sustaining

60- minute online follow-up meeting over Zoom
scheduled after the completion of Part One
designed to support the integration of learning and further coaching practice
additional online follow-up sessions are available at an additional cost

Learning Objectives - Part Two

Acquiring additional skills and strategies as coach through demonstration coaching, peer coaching and scenarios explicitly tied to leaders’ current context and needs.
Exploring the coaching mindset: builds capacity and accelerates learning.
Introducing the role and impact of strengths in maximizing performance.
Introducing, observing and practicing integration of the model for navigating the coaching conversation.
Continuing to practice coaching and receive feedback for further individual development.

Follow Up - Part Two

Virtual Roundtable: Integrating and Sustaining

60- minute online follow-up meeting over Zoom
scheduled after the completion of Part Two
designed to support the integration of learning and further coaching practice
additional online follow-up sessions are available at an additional cost

Facilitators: Kate Sharpe and Liana Lafranier

Date: Thursday July 7, 2022 (Part One) and Friday July 8, 2022 (Part Two)

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (EDT)

Location: 2700 -20 Queen Street West, Toronto ON M5H 3R3

Accommodation: A hotel room block will be arranged at a nearby facility for those who require it. More information will be available soon.

Meals: Lunch and refreshments will be provided during each session.

Cost: $400 + HST (Part One), $350 + HST (Part Two), $700 + HST (Part One and Two)

All participants will receive

a copy of When Mentoring Meets Coaching: shifting the stance in education (Sharpe and Nishimura, 2017),
access to digital support materials, including videos, and additional working tools and
a laminated mentor-coaching conversation guide.

Registration Deadline: July 5

Please ensure you register through the correct link.

Part One Registration

Part Two Registration

Part One and Two Registration

Instructional Leadership for Creating Anti-Oppressive Learning Environments – July 13

This interactive workshop will be founded on an inquiry approach. The workshop is an opportunity for participants to explore inquiry-based instructional leadership. The session will help participants align instructional leadership, school improvement plans and Board Improvement and Equity Plans (BIEP) to foster anti-oppressive and anti-colonial learning environments. Through a variety of activities, participants will:

Build their professional network
Reconnect to the importance of creating space for instructional leadership in complex times
Deepen their understanding of the value of an inquiry approach to instructional leadership
Sharpen the focus of their instructional leadership efforts
Blend anti-oppressive approaches and inquiry-based leadership through connections to the SIEP (BIEP)
Consider an expanded notion of data for school improvement planning

This workshop will be offered in Toronto (in person and online).

Facilitators:

Nadine Trépanier-Bisson, Director of Professional Learning, Ontario Principals' Council
Lawrence DeMaeyer, Education Advisor, Ontario Principals' Council

Session Information: