June 30, 2025 to August 22, 2025
- Category: Online, SOQP
- Region: Central Ontario, Eastern Ontario, GTA, Northern Ontario, Outside Ontario, Southern Ontario
- Topic: Teacher Leadership
- Grades: Intermediate (grades 7-10), JK-SK, Junior (grades 4-6), Primary (grades 1-3), Senior (grades 11-12)
The SOQP is designed to provide opportunities to enhance candidates’ professional knowledge, efficacy, capacities and leadership resources from a system perspective. Candidates will critically explore effective processes for collaboratively working with a wide range of educators, families, caregivers, trustees, the Ontario Teachers’ Federation and its affiliates, principal organizations, representatives from Ministries and stakeholders. Candidates will also have an opportunity to reflect on the role of the supervisory officer in relation to policies, legislation and the regulatory context of publicly funded education (from OCT SOQP guideline, 2017). The SOQP is comprised of four modules and a Leadership Practicum. Each module is 50 hours in length. The duration of the Leadership Practicum will also be a minimum of 50 hours.
Candidates must complete all five modules within five years of beginning the SOQP.
- Organizer: Niagara University
- Location: Online
- Website: http://www.niagara.edu/aq
- Contact: Carmela Vitale
- Phone: 905.294.7260 ext. 1104