Learning Forward
Equity and excellence in teaching and learning.
Coaching experienced educators: Critical support in changing contexts
Presenters: Chris Bryan, Misty Miller, Violet Christensen and Julie Donohue-Kpolugbo
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 are habitual and they may not recognize what they do or why. The major changes during the past year shifted all educators to a position of consciously unskilled—knowing that you don’t know, but unsure what to do.
The webinar is intended to highlight instructional coaches working with experienced educators. Panelists will share strategies, tools, and resources to support experienced teachers to strengthen their practice and discuss the value of self-examination and a commitment to collective responsibility.
Presenters
Chris Bryan is a senior consultant with Learning Forward. She is also the professional development director for the organization One to One Women Coaching Women. Bryan draws on deep instructional experience to serve her clients and learning partners—from classroom teacher, learning specialist, mentor, and staff developer, to instructional coach and coach of coaches. Currently, she coaches school executives, school-based coaches, and other leaders of organizations.
Misty Miller serves as the student performance strategist at Centennial Elementary in the Fargo Public School district, providing support for teachers through instructional coaching and professional development. She has been involved in elementary education for the past sixteen years as a teacher, instructional coach, consultant, and a mentor for new teachers. Her teaching and coaching experience spans grades K-8 and includes all subjects. Miller serves on school and district leadership teams and has a passion for breaking down complex ideas and organizing information in more accessible ways.
Violet Christensen is a learning coach at St. Vrain Valley Schools in Longmont, Colorado, and host of the podcast C3: Connecting, Coaches, Cognition.
Julie Donohue-Kpolugbo is district literacy consultant and instructional coach coordinator for the Beaufort Delta Divisional Education Council (BDDEC) in Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada.
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