Leadership Development


Working Together

Ontario is committed to working with school and system leaders to support student achievement, school improvement and leadership development.

Here are some of the ways Ontario is working closely with school and system leaders:

Minister's Principal Reference Group

The Minister's Principal Reference Group is a group of practising principals and vice-principals in Ontario schools who provide insight, feedback and recommendations to the ministry on issues and policies affecting schools and students.

Institute for Education Leadership

The Institute for Education Leadership is a tri-level partnership made up of representatives of principal, supervisory officer and director associations along with the ministry. The mission of the institute is to model a high-calibre results-based strategic leadership to support school and system leadership to improve student outcomes.

Leader-to-Leader

The Leader-to-Leader initiative is part of the Ontario Leadership Strategy and is being facilitated by the Literacy and Numeracy Secretariat. It is a commitment by the Premier to personally engage a group of 22 elementary school principals in discussions about successful practices, and about the challenges that schools face when trying to improve student achievement. The initiative was launched by the Premier Dalton McGuinty in the fall of 2008 and participating principals attended an introductory meeting in January 2009.

Principal Congress

The Principal Congress is a unique, tri-level, collaborative forum for Ontario's principals, supervisory officers, directors of education, education partners (including representatives from all Ontario leadership associations) and ministry staff.