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This podcast engages school leaders across Ontario in authentic conversations about their passion and expertise within K-12 education. We hope listeners will gain practical insights and strategies from each other...
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This podcast engages school leaders across Ontario in authentic conversations about their passion and expertise within K-12 education. We hope listeners will gain practical insights and strategies from each other to enhance learning and strengthen their school communities. Most importantly, this podcast will highlight excellence in practice and the joy of school leadership!
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- Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Advisor, Ontario Principals’ Council
- Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning, Ontario Principals’ Council
Leadership Talks
Leadership Talks
EP 18 - Affirming and Centering Two-spirit, Indigiqueer Black, Racialized 2SLGBTQQIA+ Persons with Multiple Intersecting Identities in K-12
24 JUL. 2024 · Please note that this episode mentions self-harm and/or suicide. While we don’t want to cause anxiety or stress, we acknowledge that this may be the experience for some people. If needed, we encourage you to reach out for support to a trusted friend or colleague, another personal resource or your organization’s Employee Assistance Program. Included for your reference is TDSB's resource page for https://www.tdsb.on.ca/Elementary-School/Supporting-You/Mental-Health-and-Well-Being-Professional-Support-Staff-PSS/Immediate-Support-Help.
Robert Durocher (Métis/French, he/him), centrally assigned to the Urban Indigenous Education Centre of Excellence, partners up with Jordan Applebaum (he/him) to discuss the importance of Gender and Sexuality Alliance’s (GSA’s) in schools to support 2SLGBTQQIA+ students and community members. Affinity groups can work together to lead, centering Indigenous, Black, and racialized student voices. It is a crucial time to focus on joy for Two-spirit, Indigiqueer, trans, 2SLGBTQQIA+ students and communities with intersecting identities. This is why Robert and Jordan are sharing their experiences in this episode and why they support GSA staff advisors through the TDSB GSA Network which reaches students and staff across the system. Initiatives include the annual EnVision Conference, Two-spirit, Indigiqueer Conference, Queer Nature walks, GSA Network Meetings, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Pen Pals for literacy, joy, education, and building community connections.
TDSB GSA Network has a website and helps organize events, such as conferences, field trips for GSA members and Pride events. For more information visit: https://sites.google.com/tdsb.on.ca/tdsbgsanetwork/home
OUR GUESTS
- Jordan Applebaum, Toronto District School Board
- Robert Durocher, Toronto District School Board
HOSTS
- Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Consultant, Ontario Principals’ Council
- Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning and Engagement, Ontario Principals’ Council
https://www.principals.ca/en/professional-learning/resources/Leadership-Talks-Podcast-Transcripts/EP-18-Affirming-and-Centering-Two-spirit-Indigiqueer-Black-Racialized-2SLGBTQQIA-Persons-with-Multiple-Intersecting-Identities-in-K-12-.pdf
EP 17 - Is It Healthy High Achievement or Perfectionism?
10 JUL. 2024 · School leadership provides a wonderful opportunity to influence change and growth. Schools naturally foster high achievement and celebrate those that walk our halls. Unfortunately, sometimes the strategies also reinforce perfectionist tendencies, foster self-sabotage and invoke the feeling of being an imposter.
As a (former) Principal, Lorraine LaPointe’s passion continues through studying the heart-mind-body connections and applying the latest brain research to create healthier habits of achievement, self-esteem and self-acceptance. This is needed today, more than ever! Through her company, http://www.lorrainelapointe.ca/, Lorraine mentors, coaches and has authored the book https://www.amazon.ca/Perfectionism-Unplugged-Self-Sabotage-Strategies-Head-Heart/dp/B0CD93ZSMJ. She joins our podcast to share some powerful insights, metaphors and transformational stories showing how to turn fear of failure, anxiety and self-doubt, into the fuel for success.
OUR GUEST
- Lorraine Lapointe - retired Durham District School Board
HOSTS
- Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Consultant, Ontario Principals’ Council
- Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning and Engagement, Ontario Principals’ Council
https://www.principals.ca/en/professional-learning/resources/Leadership-Talks-Podcast-Transcripts/Leadership-Talks_-EP-17---Is-it-Healthy-High-Achievement-or-Perfectionism_.pdf
EP 16 - Working on a Mentally Healthy You: Some actionable steps
26 JUN. 2024 · Michelle Sigmann is a principal, a certified wellness coach and an author of a book that guides individuals through a framework of setting goals and actionizing their visions. Her leadership style lends itself to authentic ways of teaching and leading. In this conversation with Leadership Talks she touches on her personal story where overwhelm and stress almost had her at rock bottom. The experience galvanized her new outlook and is now fuel for her passion for supporting and coaching others.
School leaders tend to believe that they should have all the answers. Michelle speaks about real, sustainable work and action that can be implemented. You can show up feeling less overwhelmed and stressed. You can balance the busy and transfer renewed energy into strategies that can be used in your school building.
Consider starting your day with you (5-10 minutes) using these three easy guidelines:
- Build up your self worth, be in control of your thoughts.
- Identify stressors by writing it down to reflect and take control / prioritize.
- Be patient with yourself while you implement good habits.
Resources (with notes from Michelle):
- Time Audit - I briefly talked about trying to find time in your day. When you complete this audit make sure to do your busiest day. The goal is once you fill it all in to try and find 15-20 minutes in your day to replace it with a habit that is for you. Please reach out to me for a more detailed guidance on this.
- Power Statements - In the podcast, I talked about the importance of reframing your mindset by using positive self-talk / power statements. The science behind this is more than just the words. Do this each day for yourself and see the changes in your mindset and the way you show up in your workplace and home!
OUR GUEST
- Michelle Sigmann, Durham District School Board
- IG - @michellefitnessmomma
- LinkedIN - @Michelle Sigmann
- Website - https://wellnessmichelle.com/
- Email - https://gmail.com
HOSTS
- Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Consultant, Ontario Principals’ Council
- Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning and Engagement, Ontario Principals’ Council
https://www.principals.ca/en/professional-learning/resources/Leadership-Talks-Podcast-Transcripts/Leadership-Talks_-EP-16---Working-on-a-Mentally-Healthy-You_-Some-actionable-steps.pdf
EP 15 - Special Education 6-week Co-learning and Instructional Cycle
12 JUN. 2024 · This conversation is with Dinusha Gunasingham and Samantha Stephen, who join us as representatives of the Transformational Administrators' Network; a group of administrators and educators invested in championing change management. With a focus on whole school implementation (for the benefit of ALL students), this group co-created the Transformative Administrators' Toolkit (TAT), an administrative toolkit that includes resources, materials, tools and frameworks that can be utilized by administrators to shift white supremacy culture by deprivatizing practice, employing evidence-based processes, setting direction through high expectations, centering and affirming students’ intersecting identities and fostering a climate of collaboration, responsibility and accountability that includes students, families and staff as active agents.
Dinusha and Samantha highlight for listeners how they have used the 6-week Co-learning and Instructional Cycle, included in the TAT toolkit, to foster positive student outcomes. It is a proactive, responsive and intentional tool created to action a transformative process to address disproportionalities in special education. The framework provides scaffolded support for educators to work in community with students, families and colleagues using critical discourse to complete an evidence-based process with a focus on problematizing practice and not students, as well as encouraging ongoing and purposeful critical reflection of current pedagogy.
Dinusha and Samantha were not able to consolidate all 6-weeks of the cycle for us in the podcast episode due to time constraints, however, they wanted to express for listeners that Weeks 4 - 6 continue with the collection of student and staff driven dialogue and data. Then analysis of the specific goals and intentional teaching strategies for when, in Week 6, a review team comes together to assess if the cycle should:
- (a) Continue.
- (b) If a referral to ISSP for a more intensive evaluation of supports (both school and / or community based) is required.
- (c) Discontinue with monitoring.
The purpose of the 6-week Co-learning and Instructional Cycle is to action, in the most effective and intentional way, an individualized program to meet students' specific academic and socio-emotional needs using informed instruction.
To further benefit students and support colleagues the Transformational Administrators' Network is open to sharing more information* on the TAT toolkit. Contact Dinusha at https://peelsb.com or Samantha at https://peelsb.com.
*Note, the tool will only be shared with support in understanding the conceptualization. This allows the creators to ensure that the elements, use and framework are not used in a manner that operates outside of their original vision. They welcome inquires from anyone who is interested and open to a conversation and/or learning session.
OUR GUESTS
- Dinusha Gunasingham, Peel District School Board
- Samantha Stephen, Peel District School Board
HOSTS
- Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Consultant, Ontario Principals’ Council
- Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning and Engagement, Ontario Principals’ Council
https://www.principals.ca/en/professional-learning/resources/Leadership-Talks-Podcast-Transcripts/Leadership-Talks_-EP-15---Special-Education-6-week-Co-learning-and-Instructional-Cycle.pdf
EP 14 - Debunking the Myths Around Virtual Learning
29 MAY. 2024 · As the school leaders of Peel Elementary Virtual School, Raquel Cariati-Cardoso and Sumeeta Merwar, have comprehensive understanding of virtual learning's role in the educational landscape. Their insights are backed by practical experience that focus on ensuring that students' diverse needs are met effectively in an innovative virtual space. Having been at the forefront of implementing virtual learning methods that cater to individual student, Raquel and Sumeeta have many success stories and examples that demonstrate how virtual learning has positively impacted the students that attend virtual school. There is flexibility to provide comprehensive support, specialized resources and an inclusive learning environment for all students. This is not the same virtual learning that happened during the pandemic.
OUR GUESTS
- Raquel Cariati-Cardoso, Peel District School Board
- Sumeeta Merwar, Peel District School Board
HOSTS
- Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Consultant, Ontario Principals’ Council
- Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning and Engagement, Ontario Principals’ Council
https://www.principals.ca/en/professional-learning/resources/Leadership-Talks-Podcast-Transcripts/Leadership-Talks_-EP-14---Debunking-the-Myths-Around-Virtual-Learning.pdf
EP 13 - Equity and Mental Health: Strategies for Navigating Challenges
15 MAY. 2024 · For this episode of Leadership Talks, we welcome Anjali Bajaj, a secondary vice-principal with the Toronto District School Board.
Anjali shares how leading for equity impacts the mental health of school administrators, a topic which she presented in the spring of 2023 OPC Vice-principal Symposium. While acknowledging post-pandemic realities, there is a greater need to support student & staff mental health due to tensions faced by school leaders. The impact of trauma / stress on our health and practice, include compassion fatigue and racial battle fatigue. What then are the tangible practices that are available for aligning both self & community care. How do we to hold colleagues/staff accountable to equity practices, while also maintaining personal wellness? This is where strategies such as mentoring/coaching of equity conversations, the SMHO cultural humility tool and the importance of partnerships can be used to widen the circle of care around a school community.
OUR GUEST
- Anjali Bajaj, Toronto District School Board
HOSTS
- Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Consultant, Ontario Principals’ Council
- Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning and Engagement, Ontario Principals’ Council
https://icreate.principals.ca/11140357_OPC/en/professional-learning/resources/Leadership-Talks-Podcast-Transcripts/Leadership-Talks_-EP-13---Equity-and-Mental-Health_-Strategies-for-Navigating-Challenges.pdf
EP 12 - STEM Education Leadership through Inclusive Design
1 MAY. 2024 · In this episode, Lisa Cole shares how inclusive design approaches may provide an opportunity to co-design and co-implement programs that make system impact in STEM education. She plays a pivotal role at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering, which launched k2i (kindergarten to industry) academy in June 2020 with a mission to create an ecosystem of diverse partners, committed to dismantling systemic barriers to opportunities for underrepresented students in STEM. The k2i academy engages with youth by bringing STEM to life – connecting directly to school boards and their classrooms, offering innovative work-integrated learning programs, and partnering with community organizations to provide unique, hands-on STEM learning opportunities. Today, they have grown to reach 27,000+ students, teachers, families, and community members, spending 230,000+ hours in virtual and face-to-face engagements, generating almost $6M in funding.
The k2i academy works with system leaders in publicly funded school boards. They are committed to working with diverse partners to question current systems, create opportunities for collaboration, investigate challenges, and design approaches to implement in partnership.
- About k2i: https://lassonde.yorku.ca/about/our-values/kindergarten-to-industry-k2i-academy
- About Lisa Cole: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-limcole
OUR GUEST
- Lisa Cole – Director of Programming, k2i academy | Lassonde School of Engineering | York University
HOSTS
- Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Consultant, Ontario Principals’ Council
- Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning and Engagement, Ontario Principals’ Council
https://www.principals.ca/en/professional-learning/resources/Leadership-Talks-Podcast-Transcripts/Leadership-Talks_-EP-12---STEM-Education-Leadership-through-Inclusive-Design.pdf
EP 11 - Leading Through Challenging Situations
17 ABR. 2024 · School leaders are tasked with ensuring the health and safety of the students and staff in school buildings. Many would wonder how to manage when a challenging situation elevates to a level that is out-of-the ordinary.
Steve Oliver joins the Leadership Talks team for a conversation to share his journey and what he learned from handling a high profile situation so that colleagues can recognize the resources that are at their disposal to navigate challenging circumstances, while leading in a way that prioritizes and supports the wellness and resiliency of the students and staff in their school community.
OUR GUEST
- Steve Oliver, Halton District School Board
HOSTS
- Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Consultant, Ontario Principals’ Council
- Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning and Engagement, Ontario Principals’ Council
https://www.principals.ca/en/professional-learning/resources/Leadership-Talks-Podcast-Transcripts/Leadership-Talks_-EP-11---Leading-Through-Challenging-Situations.pdf
EP 10 - Personal Leadership Journey as an Arab Woman
3 ABR. 2024 · Diane Merhi's story is a testament to the fact that there is no one set pathway to leadership. In this Leadership Talks, Diane shares her personal journey, beginning as an office administrator, transitioning to educational assistant, and eventually taking on teaching and leadership roles. Her lived experiences as a first-generation immigrant navigating the school system, combined with her experiences as an educator, have deeply informed her approach to leadership.
Diane also discusses the importance of representation, including different perspectives when building your staff team and actively cultivating inclusive spaces for students and the school community so that they feel they belong. She points out that there is no “easy button” to leadership and encourages colleagues to believe in their self-determination, hard work and resilience. She invites everyone to continue to question current practices and processes to create positive change.
Listen now for more valuable takeaways shared by Diane Merhi.
OUR GUEST
- Diane Merhi, Ottawa-Carlton District School Board
HOSTS
- Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Consultant, Ontario Principals’ Council
- Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning and Engagement, Ontario Principals’ Council
https://www.principals.ca/en/professional-learning/resources/Leadership-Talks-Podcast-Transcripts/Leadership-Talks_-EP-10---Personal-Leadership-Journey-as-an-Arab-Woman.pdf
EP 09 - Neuroaffirmative Human Rights Informed Practice
20 MAR. 2024 · Our conversation with Karen Timm spotlights her passion and expertise in neurodiversity.
Neuroaffirmative practice is an essential skill for school leaders, though many may not yet feel equipped to lead in this area. As the growing body of authentically informed research shows, embracing neurodifferences through human rights informed practice is not just beneficial for neurodivergent students and staff, but it fosters anti-oppressive thinking and helps to create habits of mind which are anti-colonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist. When activated through an intersectional approach, our efforts to embrace communication differences, normalise stimming and foster acceptance of authentic ways of being, can have a lasting impact across all dimensions of equity. By challenging ourselves to reframe outdated notions of “normal”, we can become better equipped to lead change that benefits all. By unlearning with intentionality alongside our school communities, we can build safe, inclusive and accessible learning and working environments.
Neuroaffirmative practice is pivotal on this journey. As an Autistic school leader and founder of the https://sites.google.com/ddsb.ca/nine/home and the NeuroRealMe affinity network for school leaders, Karen is uniquely positioned to support critical reflection, unlearning and neuroaffirmative school improvement planning. Join as a co-learner on this journey to reframing normal!
To continue this work in community with NINE or NeuroRealMe, or access resources aligned to neuroaffirmative practice, refer to the NINE website: https://sites.google.com/ddsb.ca/nine/home
Or find us on X: https://twitter.com/NINE_On_Can and https://twitter.com/KarenAnnTimm
OUR GUEST
- Karen Timm - Durham District School Board
HOSTS
- Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Advisor, Ontario Principals’ Council
- Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning, Ontario Principals’ Council
https://www.principals.ca/en/professional-learning/resources/Leadership-Talks-Podcast-Transcripts/Leadership-Talks_-EP-09---Neuroaffirmative-Human-Rights-Informed-Practice-with-Karen-Timm_Timestamp-1.pdf
This podcast engages school leaders across Ontario in authentic conversations about their passion and expertise within K-12 education. We hope listeners will gain practical insights and strategies from each other...
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This podcast engages school leaders across Ontario in authentic conversations about their passion and expertise within K-12 education. We hope listeners will gain practical insights and strategies from each other to enhance learning and strengthen their school communities. Most importantly, this podcast will highlight excellence in practice and the joy of school leadership!
HOSTS
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HOSTS
- Lawrence DeMaeyer – Professional Learning Advisor, Ontario Principals’ Council
- Susie Lee-Fernandes – Director of Professional Learning, Ontario Principals’ Council
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