Achieve your School Leadership Career Goals!

Mirror Start Educational Consulting offers asynchronous online courses focused on educational leadership. These courses support adult learning and micro-credentialing goals and are designed for educators interested in or currently on track to principalship as well as school building administrators, teacher leaders, and district human resources staff. Courses cover topics which range from school improvement and sustainability to anti-racist leadership. Mirror Start's courses aim to equip participants with practical ideas for thriving as leaders and creating equitable student outcomes.

 

Course Offerings

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Aspiring Principalship

This course is intended for educators interested in or currently on-track to principalship. Focused on topics pertaining to mission and vision, human resources management, and authentic engagement of key school stakeholders, this course offers a balanced blend of theory and practice. The aim of this course is to give aspiring building leaders a sense of the challenges that building leaders face. It is also designed to equip participants with practical ideas for not only surviving these challenges, but thriving in spite of them.

In this course, participants will grapple with their emerging identities as building leaders and will gain valuable insights into how their leadership styles can impact all of their affiliate stakeholders. The activities and reflections embedded throughout this course will provide guidance and space for participants to critically reflect and to begin developing actionable plans for successful leadership.

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School Improvement & Sustainability

This course is intended for school building administrators, teacher leaders, and district human resources staff. In this course, participants will learn practical strategies on how to assess school culture and climate, along with how to establish a healthy school culture and climate where staff turnover is not the norm.

Staff mental health, the labor shortage, and staff retention are major concerns right now in schools and school systems all over the world. Hiring and retaining high quality staff greatly impacts student outcomes and is often the greatest leverage point for school improvement. This course will also dive into adult social emotional learning (SEL) and practical strategies for not only retaining your staff, but positioning them to be their best. When teachers are doing well mentally and emotionally, everyone benefits, especially their students.

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Anti-Racist Leadership

This course is intended for school and district leaders, but is beneficial for all educators, whether in formal positions of leadership or not. This course focuses on topics pertaining to the history and socialization of race, identity development, and the nuances between racial paradigms. It also sheds light on ways to ensure that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives remain impactful as intended and do not become oppressive.

Participants taking this course will be guided through some difficult, polarizing, but very important topics that continue to have a profound impact on society as a whole, today. On a micro level, symptoms of structural, systemic racism have seeped into schools, playing a major role in the reproduction of inequitable student outcomes. This course will take participants on a deep dive into practical strategies around what they can do within their school contexts and within themselves, to not just be non-racist, but to go deeper and become anti-racist.

  • Visit www.mirrorstartconsulting.com and click the link in the upper right corner "OLP Log In"
  • This will take you directly to the Student Registration form you will need to complete
    • It is strongly recommended to use either a Pacific email or a gmail.com email if possible
  • Under "Course Name" you will select the class(es) you are interested in
    • The course name abbreviation for University of the Pacific-Benerd College is *UPBC
  • Once your payment is confirmed, you will receive an email from Mirror Start (check your spam folder!)

Once this process is completed, you will be able to log in using the email and password you selected. For technical issues, please contact cekwelum@mirrorstartconsulting.com

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