Coaching for change
April 2022
This issue celebrates the many ways coaches are helping schools thrive in challenging times, and highlights how leaders, colleagues, and learning opportunities can support their growth and success.
Coming soon
Blog posts
Coaching with compassion starts with relationships
Frederick Brown named Learning Forward President & CEO
Advocacy updates
Three things happening on Capitol Hill
Featured webinar
First look: Standards for Professional Learning
Professional services
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Powerful Communication Skills for Coaches
Begins April 2
Effective coaches model and facilitate the intentional use of reflective practices. They engage teachers and leaders to examine beliefs around equity, responsibility, and identity; challenge assumptions that interfere with growth and change; and apply evidence-based communication skills to build teacher self-efficacy.
In this facilitated, 20-hour online course, coaches will extend and deepen their use of coaching conversational skills to support the self-efficacy, intentionality, and critical thinking of others. Through live, facilitated sessions, as well as asynchronous learning and application tasks, both new and experienced coaches will practice critical coaching interactions with support from their colleagues and expert coaches, and share best practices for building self-awareness, listening, questioning, and facilitating coaching conversations.
Facilitated by expert coaches Joellen Killion and Andrea Gautney, “Powerful Communications Skills for Coaches” begins April 2.

Standards for Professional Learning
Newly revised Standards for Professional Learning offer educators the latest knowledge and insights to design, implement, and sustain high-quality professional learning.
Standards lead to environments in which educators and students have equitable access to powerful learning.
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