Dr. Trista Hollweck is a pracademic who integrates the worlds of research, policy, and practice. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa where she teaches graduate and Bachelor of Education courses. Trista designs, leads and researches educational networks at the local, provincial, national and international level, such as the global policy learning network ARC Education Project, the bilingual Lego Foundation-funded Canadian Playful Schools Network and the Accompaniment Project with the Leadership Committee for English Education in Quebec (LCEEQ). She is the Principal Investigator of an International Development Research Centre (IDRC)-funded research project in Sierra Leone that examines scaling and sustaining teacher professional development through communities of practice and coaching. A former secondary teacher, vice-principal, and school district consultant at the Western Quebec School Board (WQSB) Trista designed and led a district-wide mentoring and coaching program which sparked her doctoral research into systemic change, mentoring and coaching, and collaborative-based professional learning and development. Trista is a proud mom of three and is committed to supporting schools and systems to improve education for all students within and across educational systems globally.
Trista Hollweck
Profile
Books
Hollweck, T. & Campbell, P. (forthcoming) Collaboration, change and community: Accompaniment in Schools. Emerald Publishing Inc.
Lofthouse, R., Hollweck, T., & Booten, J. (2025). Coaching with purpose: Learning encounters for educational change. John Catt Publishing
Arar, K., Sawahli, R., Blaik, R., Hollweck, T., & Brion, C. (2023). Women in Educational Leadership and Community Building: Voices Across the Globe. Routledge Publishing
Journals & other
Hollweck, T., Ayson, G., Rodway, J., Hingley, J., Plain, V., Raso, C., Tenasco, A., Thorsen, T., & Wemigwans, D. (accepted). “Learning on the Land in Canadian Schools: Reflections from an Indigenous education learning network”. Education in the North (EITN), Special Issue.
McPherson, H., Aitken, A., Hernandez-Gonzalez, T., & Hollweck, T. (2026). “Systemic barriers to collaborative professional learning and development: Navigating expectations and reality", Teaching and Teacher Education (TATE), 172,
Hollweck, T., Kendrick, A., & L. Everitt. (2025). “Unaccounted work of women leaders – the experience and impact of providing emotional labour on women leaders”. Journal of Educational Leadership, Vol. ahead-of-print. No. ahead-of-print. 10.1108/JEA-01-2025-0036
Full list of publications and other scholarly contributions.
Research interests
- Teacher induction, accompaniment, coaching and mentoring
- Educational networks and collaborative-based professional learning and development
- Women in educational leadership
- Qualitative case study research and social network analysis