CONT530: Teacher Leadership Part 1
Teacher Leadership Part 1 equips Ontario educators with the practical skills and confidence to lead meaningful change in their schools. Through real-world case studies and hands-on leadership design tasks, you’ll explore equity, Indigenous education, trauma-informed practice, inclusive assessment, and collaborative school improvement. You’ll learn how to influence policy, support colleagues, mobilize networks, and create conditions where every learner thrives, while developing a professional digital portfolio and a clear, grounded vision of yourself as a teacher leader. This course is your starting point for deepening your impact and leading with purpose.
Learning Outcomes
What You Will Learn and Do
In this course, you’ll have the opportunity to
- develop a philosophy of what teacher leadership means in Ontario contexts
- apply teacher leadership to your own classroom and school
- evaluate areas of teacher leadership to include diverse perspectives and applications
- develop multiple entry points into leadership that promote the voices and identities of the community to inform the desired outcome
- apply processes and program planning that provide equitable opportunities for each learner
- critically analyze frameworks that support leaders (e.g. Ontario Leadership Framework)
- evaluate individual and systemic biases, discrimination, and barriers as well as manifestations of power and privilege in teacher practice and educational leadership in order to support the school community
- develop recognition and application of the multi-faceted roles in leadership
- assess culturally inclusive processes and practices to provide learning opportunities that respect the learning preferences, voices, and perspectives of each learner
- develop leadership practices grounded in inclusion and equity to understand and respond to the experiences of each learner
Assessments
Module 1
What Are My Foundations of Leadership?
Module 2
Who Am I as a Leader?
Progress Update 1
Module 3
What Pathways Do I Promote as a Leader?
Module 4
How Do I Lead Equity-Centred Change and Foster a Culture of Continuous Improvement?
Progress Update 2
Module 5
How Do I Foster Inclusive Practices, Pathways, and Transitions?
Module 6
How Do I Mobilize Networks, Influence Policy, and Sustain Systemic Change?
Progress Update 3
Module 7
Course Culminating Task
Final Report