Michael Bungay Stanier helps people be a force for change. He’s best known for his book The Coaching Habit which has sold over a million copies and has thousands of 5-star reviews online. His latest book How to Begin helps people be ambitious for themselves and for the world and, find their Worthy Goal, and start something thrilling, important and daunting. He founded Box of Crayons, a learning and development company that helps organizations move from advice-driven to curiosity-led. They’ve tra...
May 05, 2022•24 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Formerly a high school English teacher and a new teacher coach in Palo Alto Unified School District (Palo Alto, CA), Jennifer Abrams is currently a communications consultant and author who works with educators and others on new teacher and employee support, being generationally savvy, effective collaboration skills, having hard conversations and creating identity safe workplaces. Jennifer’s publications include Having Hard Conversations, The Multigenerational Workplace: Communicate, Collaborate ...
Apr 07, 2022•30 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Rebecca Frazier, Ph.D., has centered her professional career around learning and sharing how to become an effective coach in a variety of situations. When teachers feel encouragement and love as well as being supported by a technically skilled and competent coach, both the positive energy to persevere and the skills needed to meet difficult challenges are produced. This holistic way of delivering coaching, which includes a focus on personal development, benefits all involved in the process: stud...
Mar 03, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Kyle Schwartz is in her tenth year of teaching, this year as a reading teacher at Doull Elementary in Denver, Colorado. Her first book, I Wish My Teacher Knew: How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids focuses on realities that students face and how educators can respond to their students’ needs by building relationships. Her second book, I Wish For Change: Unleashing the Power of Kids to Make a Difference is a guide for educators, families, and mentors to help young people find a pers...
Feb 03, 2022•37 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Becca Silver is the founder and CEO of The Whole Educator. She is a highly energetic and knowledgeable trainer who approaches leadership development with transformational coaching skills and strategies. Becca is a former educator, instructional coach, life coach, and executive coach. Her training programs and customized one-on-one coaching work focuses on fostering teacher buy-in and bridging knowledge gaps between leadership and staff. She believes that, when coaching teachers, adult mindsets a...
Jan 06, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 6
This episode is a compilation of ‘Dear Coach Letters’ for you to enjoy and to help wrap up this year right for all our favorite coaches! Hear from our special guests: Adam Geller Website: https://www.edthena.com/ Twitter:@edthena Suzy Evans Twitter:@SuzannahEvans2 Betsy Ball Twitter:@1BetsyBall Mary Phillips Twitter:@growinglearners Dr. Sean Corey Twitter:@LegacyElem David Baker Twitter:@David63Baker Miriam Guerrero Cheuk Website: www.EmpowermentCoachingMC.com Instagram: EmpowermentCoachingMC Li...
Dec 02, 2021•15 min•Season 3Ep. 5
Karen Smith is an Elementary Language Arts Coordinator in St. Vrain Valley School District and is Cognitive Coach trained. Episode Notes: -Model of coaching to onboard for literacy depends on the individual she is coaching and the context. -Pull from Jim Knight’s Impact Cycle - Identify, Learn, and Improve -Minimum Skills Competencies - What do our Students need to know, understand and be able to do. -Elevation, refinement and improvement of instruction. -Observation protocols -Cognitive Coachin...
Nov 04, 2021•39 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Episode Notes: -Formative Assessment Expert started as a Band Director and Musical Performance specialty. -Dr. Shelby Wolf - Children’s Literature -Leading Impact Teams Building a Culture of Efficacy with Barb Pitchford -Collective work of many coaches going in and seeing that on some teams one member may be doing most of the work, looking to create collective efficacy. It was always about what the teacher was doing, where the focus should be learner centered. -At the center of everything needs ...
Oct 07, 2021•40 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Kathy Perret is an instructional coaching consultant and co-author of The Coach Approach to School Leadership (ASCD 2017) and Compassionate Coaching (ASCD 2021). As the founder of Kathy Perret Consulting, she empowers school leaders, instructional coaches, and classroom teachers in their professional growth. With over 30 years of experience in the field, Kathy hosts onsite and virtual professional learning for educators across the world. Educators directly impact student growth and performance, ...
Sep 02, 2021•31 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Tyler Tarver, Ed.S is the Dean of NLC College. Tyler speaks at conferences across the country on various topics related to teaching, administration, efficiency, technology, social media, and culture. He has amassed over 14 million views on YouTube and 60k subscribers. Tyler is a Dean of an HBCU College located in Arkansas. He also created and maintains TarverAcademy.com, where he helps students/teachers with math, tech, and an assortment of educational needs. He's written 3 books, produces podca...
Aug 05, 2021•31 min•Season 3Ep. 1
We talk to Dr. Diane Lauer, Dr. Sean Corey, Kelly Addington, Mandy Warren, and Nicholas Meyer to reflect back on the last year of coaching and teaching to hold onto our new learnings. We analyze a year of pandemic learning and pull out the positives that we want to pull forward to next year's teaching. Episode Notes: Teacher’s Perspective: Explore various learning models from this year: in-person, hybrid, online, and online all year and our own growth as educators. Students’ growth in self-refle...
May 06, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Sherry St. Clair is the author of Coaching Redefined and founder of Reflective Learning LLC, an educational consulting agency based in Kentucky. Her organization works with schools across the country, creating specialized training and coaching services for school administrators and educators. Additionally, Sherry serves as a Senior Consultant for the International Center for Leadership in Education and a Senior Consultant for Houghton Mifflin. Episode Notes: We talk to Sherry St Clair around her...
Apr 08, 2021•32 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Miriam Guerrero Cheuk is a certified Life and Leadership Professional Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and is currently working towards her Master Certified Coaching (MCC) Accreditation and is the founder of EmpowermentCoachingMC.com. Episode Notes: We talk to Miriam about the power of coaching in education. She shares her values around deep relationship building, trust, self care, and enhancing instruction. Miriam provides a wealth of ideas on how to build a coaching cultu...
Mar 04, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Adam Geller is the author of "Evidence of Practice: Playbook for Video-Powered Professional Learning" and the founder of Edthena. He started his career in education as a science teacher in St. Louis, Missouri, and since 2011 Adam has overseen the evolution of Edthena from a paper-based prototype into a research-informed and patented platform used by schools, districts, teacher training programs, and professional development providers. Adam has written on education technology topics for various p...
Feb 04, 2021•52 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Delia E. Racines, Ph.D., has over sixteen years of experience teaching, coaching, consulting, and serving as an assistant principal and principal with K-12 and university level educators in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. Racines helps educators apply research-based instructional strategies to make meaning of data and narrow achievement gaps. Delia has supported the transition of department chairs to Instructional Coaches through tailored modules and was awarded the prestigious Shirley Hord Awa...
Jan 14, 2021•37 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Educators from around the globe share their thoughts around self-care and finding joy.
Dec 03, 2020•33 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Christian Van Nieuwerburgh talks with us about the importance of coaching and his marriage of positive psychology and coaching.
Nov 05, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 4
We talk to John Krownapple and Sarah Thomas about equity.
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Diane Sweeney talks about changes in coaching during the pandemic and offers insight into student centered coaching.
Sep 03, 2020•42 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Jim Knight joins us to talk about coaching with compassion and how to set yourself up for coaching success is 2020.
Aug 05, 2020•46 min•Season 2Ep. 1
May 28, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 12
May 14, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 11
May 07, 2020•31 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Apr 16, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Apr 10, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Mar 11, 2020•18 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Feb 29, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 6
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