New Online Learning
Advance your knowledge, skills, and practices with guidance from Learning Forward’s top practitioners and the highest quality online learning experience available. Learning Forward’s new online learning platform brings participants together to meet virtually for live, facilitated sessions; asynchronous learning experiences; and group collaboration.
Begins March 27
Course: Influence with Impact: Strategies That Support Change and Growth
Facilitated by expert leadership coaches Kendall Zoller, Chad Dumas, and Kathy Gross, this 15-hour online course will help you increase your credibility and strengthen relationships as you lead skillfully. Through whole-group sessions as well as one-on-one coaching, you will develop communication skills that contribute to credibility, rapport, influence, and impact. For those who run meetings, deliver professional learning, or present to groups, you will leave with the knowledge of how to structure powerful interactions with the skills of credibility, rapport, listening, and recovering with grace when things don’t go as planned.
Begins April 17
Course: Implementing a Coaching Cycle
In this 15-hour, three-week course, expert coaches Heather Clifton and Andy Mendelsberg will unpack the coaching cycle as well as examine practice components of a planning conversation to set the stage for coaches’ ongoing work with teachers. Participants will Illustrate and explain the components of the coaching cycle; synthesize a variety of ways to structure coaching cycles and how to determine which structure is appropriate to use in a particular situation; establish goals with a client for a coaching cycle; examine key supports including demonstration, co-teaching, and observation with data gathering; and identify key questions to ask during planning and reflection conversations. This course will begin in April.