Community of Practice: Leadership
This page offers previous Community of Practice: Leadership discussion prompts and resources.
Access the information below to engage in reflective practice and stay informed about our ongoing sessions.
Click to Access Previous Session Content
In This Session, We:
Lean into the reality of leadership when energy is low and coffee stops working. Consider practical ways to lead with presence, care, and steadiness on the harder days.
Download
In This Session, We:
Explore the phrases, habits, and assumptions that can unintentionally shape leadership practice.
In This Session, We:
Explore a stop, keep, change framework to intentionally consider the practices, habits, and ways of working we want to release, carry forward, or shift as we enter 2026.
In This Session, We:
Explore a stop, keep, change framework to intentionally consider the practices, habits, and ways of working we want to release, carry forward, or shift as we enter 2026.
In This Session, We:
Reflect on professional development through a leadership lens. Consider ways to balance and navigate administrative responsibilities.
In This Session, We:
Explore the role leaders play in shaping workplace culture, from addressing gossip with curiosity and care to building empowered teams through distributed leadership.
In This Session, We:
Explore leadership approaches, including shared and distributed leadership.
Reflect on how meaningful family engagement connects to leadership practices.
Download
In This Session, We:
Explore ways to bring more intentionality to outdoor spaces. Consider how educators and leaders can work together to co-create outdoor spaces.
In This Session, We:
Explore how to lead through change, as it is a constant part of your work
Consider how do we stay grounded and lead through it?
In This Session, We:
Explore how we as leaders can support professional learning in our programs.
What barriers might exist for educators, and how we can address them.
In This Session, We:
We explore leadership through documentation as “love letters,” considering how documentation can strengthen educators relationships, and growth.
In This Session, We:
Explore navigating conflict and disagreements as a leader
In This Session, We:
Explore our core values and their impact on leadership
Deconstruct and analyze how these values shape our decisions and actions
In This Session, We:
We must follow regulations that allow us to operate and keep our children safe. However, can we rethink how these policies are shared and implemented?
In This Session, We:
Continue conversations on onboarding vs. orientation
Consider strategies on how individuals are engaging in onboarding practices and our role in welcoming new staff.
In This Session, We:
Discuss enrolment challenges and strategies.
Consider strategies on how individuals are engaging in onboarding practices and our role in welcoming new staff.
In This Session, We:
Discuss strategies on how can we structure meetings so that they are purposeful, engaging, and actionable.
In This Session, We:
Deconstruct buzzwords and jargon within our practice.
How do we define these buzzwords?
In This Session, We:
Discuss strategies for approaching challenging conversations with families and maintaining professionalism.
In This Session, We:
Explore how to nurture relationships with others and reflect on how these relationships influence our professional practice.
In This Session, We:
This session prompts conversations about educator dispositions and how to support them in our work.
In This Session, We:
Resources invite individuals to reflect between situations that call for technical-assistance coaching and those that require pedagogical guidance.