Summer Learning Opportunities

Professional learning doesn’t take a break

Our Professional Learning Team is committed to developing and delivering programming that is relevant to the work of administrators and responsive to a variety of needs and interests. To that end, through the winter months we offered a variety of learning sessions. professional We partnered with CPCO and ADFO Our as part of ministry funded projects, including Supporting Student Mental Health, Implementation of the elementary math curriculum and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Most of our OPC specific sessions, such as our moderated interview webinar on documentation, are archived for Members to view.

Since the ICP Conference has been moved to July 2022, we have decided to follow our usual practice of preparing summer learning opportunities. The topics for these sessions are based on feedback collected throughout the year and input from our Professional Learning Focus Group. Through these virtual sessions, principals and viceprincipals are invited to learn alongside their colleagues and subject matter experts.

• July 5 – Unsettling Practice and Dislodging Oppression: Leading schools where students thrive with Dr. Ann Lopez and Lawrence De- Maeyer

• July 6 – Mindfulness Everyday with Heidi Bornstein

• July 6 and 13 – Foundational Coaching Skills with Kate Sharpe

• July 7 – De-escalation, Relationships and Healing with Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) and Nancy Rowe, educator, consultant and Traditional Practitioner of Anishinaabek lifeways, views and customary practices.

• July 9 – Trauma-Informed Leadership with Dr. Jean Clinton as keynote speaker and a panel of experts

• August 16 – Destreaming Panel Discussion

• August 18 – Supporting Distance Learning

• August 20 – Culturally Responsive School Leadership Through the Lens of Religious Literacy with Hiren Mistry and Lawrence DeMaeyer.

In addition, we have once again partnered with CPCO and VoicEd for a radio broadcast series.

• August 16 – Meet the New Presidents

• August 17 – Student Voices on Student Voice

• August 18 – Student Focused Distance Learning: Shifting pedagogies

• August 19 – Land Based Pedagogy: Bringing Indigenous perspectives to teaching and learning

• August 20 – Getting Ready: Setting good habits.

The final component of our summer learning consists of four half-day sessions for newly appointed vice-principals or principals. These half days are part of a broader program that will continue in the fall and offer learning, networking and coaching based on participant needs. It is our hope that this program will complement existing board leadership development work.

Looking ahead to the fall, we are committed to our Professional Learning Goals and Principles for evidence based learning sessions that support you in different aspects of your work, including anti-oppressive leadership, instructional leadership, school management and mental health and well-being.

We remain open to suggestions about our professional learning format and content. If you have any questions or suggestions, send them to us at learning@principals.ca.

If you aren’t receiving our weekly Professional Learning Bulletin, featuring upcoming learning opportunities, you can sign-up for it on the OPC website.