Educational transformation starts at the top.
But you shouldn’t have to lead in isolation.
Leading a school toward a shared vision, a collaborative culture, and true collective efficacy is incredibly heavy lifting - and you shouldn’t have to carry the weight alone.
Joyful Inclusion hosts two distinct, high-impact masterminds designed to give school administrators and special education leaders the community, confidence, and practical strategy they need to thrive.
Special Education Champions
Champions Mastermind
Who It’s For: District and school-level Special Education Directors, Coordinators, and Program Leaders.
The Challenge: You are exhausted by the endless cycle of special education compliance, paperwork, and siloed departments. It leaves you with little time to focus on what actually matters: supporting instructional quality and empowering your educators.
The Mastermind: Move past the compliance trap. This collaborative mastermind equips you with the strategic frameworks you need to build strong co-teaching alliances, increase daily instructional effectiveness, establish sustainable behavioral interventions, and measurable improve student outcomes.
Next Cohort starting February 2027
School Administrators
Principals Accelerator
Who It’s For: Principals, Assistant Principals, and Campus Leaders.
The Challenge: You are fully committed to leading special education improvement on your campus, but a gap in traditional administrative training leaves you feeling uncertain about where to start or how to best support and evaluate your staff.
The Mastermind: Lead inclusive design strategically with absolute confidence. We provide the practical frameworks, real-world troubleshooting scenarios, and school-wide strategies you need to build staff capacity, dissolve classroom silos, and lead your entire campus toward a unified culture of belonging and success.
Next Cohort starting in 2027
What People Are Saying about Masterminds for Leaders:
“Dr. Pleet brings a wealth of resources and insights that helped me to reflect on my leadership and role. The ability to work through models with professional in my field was invaluable and I will continue to utilize the resources provided regularly to support work as an educational leader.”
— Executive Director of Special Services
“Being part of the Champions Mastermind cohort allowed me to embrace the real challenges of leadership and feel comfortable being vulnerable among like-minded leaders, while gaining new tools, strategies, and techniques to navigate a wide range of situations with better confidence and clarity.”
— Assistant Director of Special Education
“There are several things I was able to use immediately. Kudos for the Champions Mastermind Guidebook. It has all these pieces in here that, when put together, really provide a catalyst for doing something in a nuanced and new way.”
— Sr Assoc. Director of Content-Specific Curricular Supports
School & District Solutions
Transforming a school requires a shared framework.
Move beyond individual educator training to build campus-wide collective efficacy.
When your teachers share a common, hope-centered language and a vision for what you’re building, you stop launching disjointed initiatives and start creating a unified, joyful school culture where every single learner succeeds - no exceptions.
While our leadership masterminds equip you with the personal tools to lead change, pairing your cohort experience with custom district-wide solutions allows you to scale this impact across your entire faculty. Together, they build a unified, school-wide movement that makes inclusive change truly sustainable.