PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
Senior Leaders' Networks: Thinking Together for Student Achievement
A Different Kind of Leadership Network
Facilitated peer learning for Senior Leaders and Senior Leadership Teams from comparable school districts
What Is This?
Many Senior Leaders are asking the same questions right now:
- What are boards like ours doing to improve achievement?
- How are others making sense of recent provincial achievement results and other student learning data?
- Where can we have honest, substantive conversations that help support critically-thoughtful leadership?
We are convening small, facilitated networks of comparable districts to create exactly that space.
Designed and facilitated by The Critical Thinking Consortium (TC²), this is a short-term, purposefully designed peer network where leaders from similar boards meet to learn with and from one another. This is not a conference, webinar, or one-off presentation. It is a structured opportunity for real dialogue, shared problem-solving, and collective sense-making.
What's the Focus?
While each network shapes its own emphasis, common areas might include:
- Understanding trends in achievement and other student learning data
- Exploring the constellation of strategies used by the leaders of successful systems
- Leadership learning, capacity building, and system coherence
- Identifying valuable lessons from leadership moves in different contexts
How Is This Different?
- Networks are intentionally grouped by board size and contexts
- Facilitation ensures conversations go beyond surface sharing
- Led with and alongside experienced system leaders
- Grounded in real practice, not prepackaged solutions
- Creation of a trusted space for sense-making during complex moments
- Participation is intentionally limited to ensure quality and relevance.
Who Is This For?
- Senior-most leaders including directors, superintendents, CEOs, CEdOs and senior teams from school districts and systems who are seeking thoughtful, collegial professional learning
What are the Outcomes?
- Clearer understanding of how comparable boards are approaching improvement
- Stronger professional connections with peers who face similar leadership challenges
- New perspectives that can guide and inform local decision making
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Expanded repertoire of leadership tools and enhanced leadership capabilities
What Might Participation Look Like?
- Three online sessions (1–1.5 hours each)
- Focused on the needs of Senior Leaders
- Can be designed to align with existing senior team meeting times and include superintendents if desired by the network
- Sessions facilitated by Usha James, Executive Director, to support focus, depth, and productive exchange
Who Is TC²?
The Critical Thinking Consortium is a renowned and widely respected not-for-profit educational organization that has supported teachers, school districts, ministries of education, and other non-profit agencies in Canada and internationally for over 30 years. Our approach is founded upon a research-based conceptual framework that enriches and enhances the collective efforts of teachers, schools, districts and organizations by ensuring that high quality thinking is at the core of all initiatives.
TC² framework for nurturing quality thinking
We welcome a conversation about how these options can serve as a valuable investment for your district.