Instructional Coaching Events

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Throughout the year, the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning offers several opportunities to learn more about instructional coaching.

• Instructional Coaching Institute, Level 1
  Acquire a foundation upon which a solid, effective instructional coaching program can be built. Learn what coaches do, distinguish between effective and ineffective coaching practices, and review current research on coaching.
  
  
• Instructional Coaching Institute, Level 2
  Gain a comprehensive understanding of the classroom management tools and teaching practices in Coaching Classroom Management by Randy Sprick, Wendy Reinke, Tricia McKale, and Jim Knight. You will learn important variables to observe while coaching teachers, powerful strategies to support teachers in creating safe learning communities, and how to integrate classroom management practices into the instructional coaching model.
  
  
• Creating an Impact School
  Learn how to focus on easy-to-understand professional learning targets; how workshops, professional learning communities, and other forms of professional learning can support school improvement targets; and what principals, coaches, and central office staff need to do to accelerate professional learning.
  
  
• Workshops That Make an Impact
  Learn and apply the strategies described in Jim Knight's Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach to Dramatically Improving Instruction, including best practices for designing slides and presentations, vocal delivery, structuring learning experiences, writing and telling stories, facilitating, and keeping audience energy high.
  
  
• Translating Common Core Standards into Practice
  Acquire the knowledge and skills you need to conduct an intensive learning team process within your district. Intensive learning teams, described in Jim Knight’s Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction, is a way in which teachers are active partners in developing teaching plans and formative assessments that get to the heart of the Common Core State Standards, which now have been adopted by most states.
  
  
• Seventh Annual Instructional Coaching Conference: Preconference
  Register for one of two stellar preconference sessions:
  • Coaching for Success: Training High School Students to Coach Each Other, presented by Christian van Nieuwerburgh, program leader for coaching psychology programs at the University of East London. Learn about the Coaching for Success program that is used in a number of secondary schools in the United Kingdom and discuss practical ways to use this approach in schools in the United States.
  • Mental Toughness: A Licensed User Workshop, presented by Pete Clough, senior lecturer, University of Hull, England, and Doug Strycharczyk, CEO of AQR Ltd. Examine Mental Toughness, a practical, down-to-earth approach of working with young people, in some detail and explore how the concept applies to your own work.
  
  
• Seventh Annual Instructional Coaching Conference: A Global Summit on Coaching
  This year’s conference will have a definite international flavor, with presentations by several experts who live and work in England and Australia. Their topics will cover many aspects of coaching, including the concept of mental toughness, career development coaching, coaching psychology, and mindfulness in coaching for teachers and students.