What are we missing when it comes to leadership in education in Ontario?

In the fall of 2017, Bruce Rodriguez (then the Deputy Minister of Education) gave me 45 minutes to answer the question: ‘What are we missing when it comes to leadership in education in Ontario?

From that conversation and many others flowed a project with 3 school boards in Ontario, which ran from Jan 2018 – June 2019. I designed and implemented a research-based program that included 6 full day of team learning and leadership skills; 1:1 Executive Coaching; and eventually practice coaching with feedback.

We were fortunate to have researchers from the Ministry of Education in Ontario research all 3 phases of this project. The final piece was shared December 2019. Here is a brief summary of these results.