The panel discussion at the CLD's 6th Annual International Conference will feature Alison Mitchell, Dr. Beyhan Farhadi, Dr. Camille Logan, Teralyn Phipps, and Dr. Vidya Shah and moderated by Dr. Ann Lopez. Registration is open! @drannlopez.bsky.social 🔗https://oise.jotform.com/251735755661969

I am honoured to be a keynote panelist for the 6th Annual Centre for Leadership and Diversity International Conference in October 🇨🇦 @oiseuoft.bsky.social @drannlopez.bsky.social @centcs.bsky.social @uofgheadship.bsky.social @seralisen.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @seraethics.bsky.social

All are invited to CLD 6th Annual International Conference Oct 16-18, 2025. Oct Virtual, Oct 17-18 In-Person kThe theme of the Conference is Leadership for Renewal, Sustenance, and Resistance in Challenging Times. Registration link below ⬇️

𝐄𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐮𝐫𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 What a wonderful #SERA session this evening with Prof. @drannlopez.bsky.social @oiseuoft.bsky.social, in partnership with @seraethics.bsky.social @seralisen.bsky.social Sincere thanks to Prof. Lopez and to everyone who attended and engaged in the discussion.

Leadership without empathy and care is not leadership

Looking forward to being in conversation. Thanks for organizing. @seraethics.bsky.social @seralisen.bsky.social @oiseuoft.bsky.social @lhaecomms.bsky.social

Remembering James Baldwin on his birthday. One of my favourite quotes “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality”.

We are delighted to be organising an event on #Ethical #Leadership in partnership with the @seralisen.bsky.social network and @drannlopez.bsky.social from @oiseuoft.bsky.social Center for Leadership and Diversity! @alisonmitchelluofg.bsky.social @julie67.bsky.social @profaileenk.bsky.social

It was an amazing conference. Thanks for inviting me into space. See you in 2027

Privileged again to hear @drannlopez.bsky.social @belmasoffice.bsky.social in her keynote “A Call to Action: Sustenance, Determination, and Hope in Challenging Times” #Agency #Resistance #Leading @alisonmitchelluofg.bsky.social @julie67.bsky.social @mariemcquade.bsky.social @msbakerht.bsky.social

Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦🍁

Join me today as I discuss “Decolonising Education: Imperatives for 21st Century Principalship at the NCEL Leadership Series meeting, Ministry of Education Jamaica 🇯🇲@OISEUofT @LHAEUTOISE. Scan the QR Code to register

People who lack empathy should not be in positions of leadership.

My peonies bloomed this year. So beautiful. Enjoying while they last

Can’t to join the amazing educators, students, community members @isatt2025.bsky.social @oiseuoft.bsky.social @lhaecomms.bsky.social

Looking forwards to the conversation @oiseuoft.bsky.social @lhaecomms.bsky.social

So sorry to hear that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has joined the ancestors. His writings have influenced my work over the years especially his book Decolonising the Mind. RIP Ngũgĩ🕊️

Phang: We don’t need the Ten Commandments hanging in Texas schools. What we need is common-sense gun legislation—so the kids can live. If my kid goes to a public school in Texas and they can’t come home alive, I don’t give a shit about the Ten Commandments being posted on the wall.

My latest in the Journal of School Leadership. Leaders must use their leadership agency and know as leaders what they will not be complicit in, be silent about, and advocate for @OISEUofT @LHAEUTOISE @CLD_Leadership

Happy 100th Birthday to Malcolm X Omowale El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz born May 19,1925. He fought for justice Black people and all oppressed people everywhere. His words continue to inspire.

Says a lot about a society and embedded anti-Black racism when racist slurs are hurled at a Black child by an adult and that adult is financially rewarded for their racist act.

Colonizers will never give up willingly the benefits and resources they reap from colonization

NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month. He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵

Black people are not safe among them

What an awful thing to do all while they wrap themselves in the Bible

Leadership that centres the most vulnerable and lead with humility. He called into Gaza daily and apologized for Residential school harm in Canada.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe - Frantz Fanon

Happy Easter to all who celebrate

"In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist." - Angela Davis

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Two weeks to go 🙌 Have you registered yet for CLD's next Focus on Research Series, to be presented by Dr. Paul Campbell on April 30 2025, @ 12:30pm EST & moderated by Dr. Caroline Manion @oiseuoft.bsky.social @drannlopez.bsky.social 💫 🔗 oise-utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there! 💫

What happened to law and order Republicans? They are participating in the most lawless acts and denying folks their rights.

The master’s tools will never take down the master’s house”. - Audre Lorde

We live in a world of misinformation and lies by propelled by narcissistic and leaders whose sole agenda is power for oligarchs.

Do not miss this opportunity to engage, share research, ideas, and actions at CLD Virtual and On-Line Conference Oct 16-18, 2025. Link below to send in Abstracts ⬇️

Leadership that does not centre humanity is not leadership.

When people show you who they are the first time, believe them - Maya Angelou

To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them. - Frantz Fanon

Thank you @uofgheadship.bsky.social for the privilege of being in space and sharing some ideas with amazing educators engaging in antiracist education

A fabulous Audience with Professor Ann Lopez: Decolonising Education Leadership, chaired by Ecucation Leadership and Policy lead @mariemcquade.bsky.social Thank you @drannlopez.bsky.social and to everyone who contributed questions!

We’re facing an era where fools are calling for a renewal of colonialism, where descriptions of violence and instability draw on the very colonial language of “barbarism” and “backwardness”….While colonialism in its formal sense might have been dismantled, the colonial state has not. Aimé Césaire

Anti-Black racism to be specific

White supremacists & racists feeling emboldened because leaders have made it okay. Can you imagine a Black child being in this person’s class, or a Black patient having this person as a nurse. Sadly they are everywhere endangering Black people’s lives

I’m so grateful I was introduced to this podcast. #Decolonizing and #Uncolonizing #Leadership: How do we undo and disrupt coloniality and engage in decolonizing and uncolonizing leadership? The encouragement I needed today. #Disrupting in a good way! www.yorku.ca/edu/unleadin...

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair - bell hooks

Happy International Women’s Day. Today I am my beloved grandmother and my ancestors from whom my wisdom flow #InternationalWomensDay

Missouri has been running the pilot for Project 2025 for a couple of decades. With a GOP Supermajority, over 30% of our schools are on a four-day week. We fund vouchers for private religious schools. Our starting teachers are 50th in the nation for pay and they pay for their own supplies.

“You who are so liberal, so humane, who take the love of culture to the point of affectation, you pretend to forget that you have colonies where massacres are committed in your name." - Frantz Fanon

A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization.A civilization that uses its principles for trickery & deceit is a dying civilization Aime Césaire