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Level Up Mentorship
A Safe, Supportive Space for Sustainable Growth
School leadership is deeply rewarding—but it's also relentless. From driving system-wide change to navigating difficult conversations, the role can often feel isolating. Leaders deserve more than quick-fix workshops or surface-level professional learning.
Level Up Mentorship offers what truly sustains leaders: ongoing, confidential, strengths-based support rooted in lived experience and practical wisdom. Whether you're wrestling with a staffing issue, refining your learning plan, or carving out space for your own well-being—this space is for you.
Who I Am: Your Partner in Leadership Growth
I’m a former school principal with over 20 years of experience. I’ve led through equity shifts, curriculum reform, and school improvement efforts across multiple communities. My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in real school experience.
Throughout my leadership journey, I've mentored new and seasoned principals, worked alongside school and district teams, and co-designed professional learning that honors the complexity of school leadership. I understand the emotional, strategic, and relational demands you face -- because I’ve been there too.
Growth happens best in trusted relationships, where vulnerability and courage can coexist.
What Leaders Are Saying
Working with you always succeeds in re-igniting my confidence and my belief in myself to do leadership. Thank you!”
— School Leader
“This mentorship helped me navigate a really tough time. I didn’t feel alone, and I left with a revised plan of action that has been sustaining me for two years.”
— Seasoned Principal
“Rosa helps me remain on track with my beliefs and my inquiry. The blend of experience, wisdom, and genuine care is helping me unpack how I might design more inclusive, connected, and responsive professional learning amid burn out.”
— District Principal
“Our triad group is one of the most trusted spaces we have.”
— School Leaders
What You Get:
Each option includes:
✅ 8 coaching/mentoring sessions (60 minutes each)
✅ Customized Virtual Resource Board to support your goals between sessions
✅ Immersive Peer-Consulting Protocols (Doubles/Triad format)
✅ Flexible scheduling to accommodate school commitments
✅ Confidential support from a mentor with 20+ years of principalship experience
🔐 Note: All sessions are held in strict confidence. This is a protected space for honest dialogue, reflection, and challenge.
Mentorship Pathways Designed for You
Individual: 1 to 1 personalized mentorship
Doubles: Two leaders working together
Triad: Small group with 3 peers
Monthly session, one hour, 8 sessions total
How It Works: Your Questions Answered
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A personalized Padlet Sandbox curated with you and for you – an interactive space with links to tools, templates, notes, and key reflections. Your learning, all in one place.
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Structured facilitation methods like Tuning Protocol, Success Analysis, or Consultancy Protocol help small groups deeply examine challenges and refine leadership practices.
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Yes! You can register with trusted colleagues or be grouped with peers based on shared leadership goals and contexts.
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All sessions are virtual via Zoom for flexibility. Custom in-person offerings are available upon request.
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Principals, vice principals, district principals, aspiring leaders, informal leaders. Leadership is a mindset, not a title.
What’s Next?
✨ Don’t wait for the next crisis to reach out. Let’s sharpen your leadership strategy, and rekindle your joy in leading.
📄 Need help with funding? A Mentorship Request for Funds letter is available to help you seek approval from your supervisor.
📬 Ready to begin? Email me at rosa@leveluped.ca or book a free 30-minute info call.
Collective Leadership for School Improvement
Grounded in the work of Eckert (2019) and Eckert & Morgan (2023), collective leadership is a collaborative approach in which teachers and administrators work together toward shared goals—centering inclusivity, distributed expertise, and mutual responsibility.
In this full-day session, participants will engage with colleagues to:
Explore the seven conditions essential for developing collective leadership
Identify common barriers and co-design practical solutions to implementation
Develop strategies tailored to your school context for putting collective leadership into action
This session highlights the power of shared leadership practices—where influence is rooted in collaboration and contribution, not formal titles or roles. Join me in rethinking leadership as a collective force for school improvement.
Full Day Learning Experience
This full day learning experience is tailored for school or district teams and professional associations.
Leading for Learning through Inquiry
Leading for learning is a belief in human capacity, equity, inquiry, and professional support. What can you and others do to make leading for learning a more important part of your school culture?
The Spiral of Inquiry (Kaser and Halbert, 2022) is a leading for learning tool that provides an incredible opportunity to hone your leadership capacity through the power of inquiry, while also nourishing your hearts and souls through the power of networking.
Over the course of seven, 60 minute sessions, you will immersed in your own Spiral of Inquiry.
Whether with your school goals or site based problem of practice, collaborate through the stages of the Spiral on a digital whiteboard, receive guidance and build your confidence using the Spiral.
What Leaders Are Saying
“Great sessions. I’m really enjoying moving through the Spiral with your continued, highly effective coaching!!”
— Head of Education
“Your sessions have been truly inspiring and have instilled in me a real passion for the Circle of Courage through the Spiral of Inquiry and made me want to shout about it from the rooftops! Without your contagious enthusiasm and your fabulous way of making everything feel do-able and accessible, I think I would still be stuck with my head in the book trying to figure out where to go next. I am feeling so excited about our next steps in Lower School and across the school as a whole.”
— Head of Lower School
Monthly Session, one hour, 7 sessions
•Session 1: Why the Spiral of Inquiry? How it works.
•Session 2: Scanning–Your Starting Point and Knowing Your Why
•Session 3: Focusing-Deciding on Where to Place Your Attention for Impact
•Session 4: Developing a Hunch-Taking Responsibility
•Session 5: New Professional Learning
•Session 6: Taking Action–What will you do differently?
•Session 7: Checking to see if you have made enough of a difference!
Optional: Follow-up Critical Friend sessions are offered two weeks after each session, where you can drop in online to get further support with your inquiry.
Reach out to organize a customized program for your leadership team. Program offered via Zoom or in Hybrid mode.
Designing for Learning: Space and Pedagogy
Are you planning a new build or rethinking your existing school space to create a more flexible, innovative learning environment?
I know how overwhelming — and exciting — that can feel. I’ve been in your shoes.
During my tenure as a school principal, I had the incredible opportunity to lead the launch of multiple new schools from the ground up. Each one was designed not just with students in mind, but with learning at the centre — spaces that reflected our values, supported collaboration, and empowered both students and staff. These learning community models have gone on to receive national recognition and worldwide attention, and they continue to shape how we think about schools as places of possibility.
Over the years, I’ve worked alongside countless school staff, school leaders, and district leaders — helping them align their vision for learning with the realities of site planning, architecture, pedagogy, and change leadership. Whether you’re just beginning to imagine what’s possible, or deep into the planning process, I’m here to support you. Let’s reimagine your school, together.
What Leaders Are Saying
The insights we learned through Rosa’s efforts were the most productive means of all of the many strategies employed in preparing our staff to undertake their roles in a newly designed school. True innovators who have the vision, emotional intelligence, work ethic and understanding of change management to successfully transform a school community are rare in the world of public education. Rosa is such an innovator and much more!
— Superintendent of School Effectiveness
Personalized program created to support your school or district design journey
Level Up Learning Tours
Learning tours of transformational schools can be organized to suit your area of interest.
Contact Rosa with your area of interest, to plan a local or international educational learning tour.
*Tours available in Canada and Europe
Multi-day tour opportunities
Customized single or multi-day program options.