Module 1 – Theoretical Foundations of Mentoring/Coaching

• Principles of adult learning
• Research on mentoring and coaching (including a personalized reading choice)
• The importance of equity in mentoring/coaching
• Principles of anti-oppressive leadership
• Issues of race and equity (MentorCoaching to affect equitable outcomes for students)
• Supporting MentorCoaching through the Co-Active model and skills (based on the seminal text Co-Active Coaching  currently in its 4th edition)
• Attributes, processes, tools and skills of MentorCoaching, including:
  • The MentorCoaching relationship (including trust, honesty, confidentiality, safety, non-judgement, and bias awareness)
  • Deep listening (also articulating, clarifying, meta-view, metaphor, and acknowledging)
  • Curiosity and asking powerful questions

•  Models of mentoring and coaching
• Mindsets (including the impact of unconscious bias, strategies to support a positive/growth MentorCoaching mindset, fostering culturally responsive mentoring practices, supporting equity and inclusion)
• Leveraging our signature strengths
• Values in MentorCoaching
• Feedback vs. feedforward
• The guiding principles, critical skills and processes of MentorCoaching continued:
  • Listening, curiosity and powerful questions, intuition, forwarding the action and deepening the learning (also focusing on the mentee’s agenda, goal setting and accountability), self-management (also recovery, asking permission, bottom-lining, championing, clearing, reframing, making distinctions)

•  The role of MentorCoaching in 21st century learning and leadership
• Responding to leadership challenges (including applying MentorCoaching to school improvement and student achievement)
• Moving toward equitable leadership (including the creation of an anti-oppressive culture and responding to micro-aggressions)
• Differentiating supports for novice and experienced leaders
• Risk taking and the importance of learning from failure
• Mentoring new teachers (including collaborative inquiry in building teacher efficacy)
• Case study analysis, Ministry of Education and other mentoring resources
• Courageous conversations (based on the text Having Hard Conversations and/or Hard Conversations Unpacked and/or Swimming in the Deep End)

•  Creating a culture of MentorCoaching
• Using MentorCoaching to support sustainability, health and well-being
• Multi-generational mentoring opportunities
• MentorCoaching across districts and in other careers

The Ontario Principal’s Council (OPC) is committed to accommodating the individual needs of our Members, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code.  Once a candidate has registered and paid the applicable registration fees for a course, the OPC will contract with an interpretation service of its choosing and will cover the fees and expenses related to interpretation services in accordance with its contract arrangements with the interpreter.  The candidate is welcome to provide a list of preferred interpreters for us to consider, but OPC retains the discretion to choose the provider of these services.

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.

Refund Policy

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 $250.00 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.   Interpretation Services Terms and Conditions  The Ontario Principal’s Council (OPC) is committed to accommodating the individual needs of our Members, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code.  Once a candidate has registered and paid the applicable registration fees for a course, the OPC will contract with an interpretation service of its choosing and will cover the fees and expenses related to interpretation services in accordance with its contract arrangements with the interpreter.  The candidate is welcome to provide a list of preferred interpreters for us to consider, but OPC retains the discretion to choose the provider of these services. 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.