Violet Christensen
Learning Coach
Violet Christensen currently serves as an instructional learning coach with St. Vrain Valley School District in Longmont, CO. She has over 13 years of experience teaching, coaching, and consulting. She serves coaches, school leaders, educators, and others throughout St. Vrain. Christensen is part of the Office of Professional Development, creating dynamic blended professional development to meet the learning needs of educators. She is also co-host of C3: Connecting Coaches’ Cognition Podcast (@C3Coaches) which is centered around supporting instructional coaches and educators. Christensen also co-created the Inter-District Coaching Collaborative, to connect instructional coaches to help them reflect, refine, and elevate their practices.
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3 practical strategies for setting your coaching vision
Every year, there is monumental excitement around the start of the school year. The energy is electric for students, teachers, and coaches alike. As coaches, we feed off this energy and it propels us forward. But figuring out how to support all teachers can be a big task. To be […] -
Coaching experienced educators: Critical support in changing contexts
Instructional coaching, especially for experienced educators, can offer support to adjust and adapt instruction and engage all students. Educators have greater or lesser levels of consciousness about their ability. Experienced educators are often consciously skilled, deliberate in their actions, or possibly unconsciously skilled, so experienced that most of their actions […]
