OC14-Leading with the Heart: Finding Our Way Through Joy

$39 (free for subscribers)
Tanya Andrejas
Date:  Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Length: 1.5 hours
Time: 12:15pm – 1:45pm (EST)

Tanya Andrejas

$39 (free for subscribers)
Date:  Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Length: 1.5 hours
Time: 12:15pm – 1:45pm (EST)

About this Online Conversation

What does it look like to lead from the heart and within shared collective values and commitments? This conversation will explore leadership grounded in pedagogical commitments and values. When leaders operate from this space, it guides the direction of the team as well as informs all aspects of our work. Leading from the heart, finding joy and connection in our practice ignites shared passion, purpose and a collective vision that unifies our teams.

This casual dialogue offers a space to explore leadership and organizational structures that support the creation of a culture among the team situated in care, respect and shared visions.

How might we reconnect with our why, the joy of our work and find renewed energy through the power of collaboration, connection and companionship of others? How might leading from the heart compose spaces of belonging, expression, well-being and engagement for our teams in caring companions in pedagogy and practice?

This Online Conversation, facilitated by Tanya Andrejas, invites early learning and care managers, supervisors, and directors, as well as pedagogical and system leads to reflect and share insights with one another as we seek deeper joy, commitment and connection in our roles as leaders in the field of early learning.

Tanya Andrejas, RECE, BA, MA

Tanya has over 30 years of diverse and rich experience in the field of Early Learning. Her career began within a Lab School in a Post Secondary Setting in Ontario.  Here she witnessed the beauty and complexity of pedagogy unfold. She has had the privilege to walk alongside children of all ages, families, educators and students in cultivating communities and pedagogies of care.

As a professor, and later a director and pedagogical lead, Tanya found joy in inspiring and mentoring future educators and her team, by heart-led leadership practices grounded in values of love, care, inclusion and respect.

Tanya was the recipient of the 2017 Prime Minister’s Award of Excellence in teaching where her work in honoring children as capable contributing citizens was acknowledged. She is a published author and feels honored to work as a consultant for the early years sector in reimagining our work and practice.

Tanya believes in lifelong learning and enjoys meeting educators from across the world engaging and learning alongside others as a presenter and contributor. Her passion includes empowering leadership, reconceptualizing pedagogy and practice through innovative, transformative and reflective practice with others. She specializes in pedagogy and care, curriculum making, environmental design, and pedagogical documentation. She is a contributing member of various professional learning committees across Ontario.