In this session, participants will be provided with many opportunities to practice and integrate the skills, attitudes, behaviours and conversational pathways that a coach-like leader or teacher-leader needs to inhabit when working with teachers, students, other administrators, colleagues or parents/ caregivers.
Learning Objectives
- Cultivating the inner conditions and capacity for managing filters and barriers to deep listening.
- Integrating the layers of the coaching conversation: demonstration coaching and peer coaching.
- Offering and inviting feedback; facing the feedback challenge; three approaches for offering feedback.
- Role-playing scenarios: practicing offering feedback in a safe place.
- Setting intentions for key areas of learning and the integration of coaching skills within leadership.
Follow-Up: Virtual Roundtable – Integrating and Sustaining
- 60-minute online follow-up meeting over Zoom.
- Scheduled two to four weeks after completion of Part 3.
- Designed to support integration of learning and further enhance coaching practice skills.
- Additional online follow-up sessions are available at an additional cost.
Facilitators: Kate Sharpe and Liana Lafranier
Date: Thursday April 20, 2023
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (EDT)
Location: 2700 -20 Queen Street West, Toronto ON M5H 3R3
Accommodation: A hotel room block will be arranged at a nearby facility for those who require it. More information will be available soon.
Meals: Lunch and refreshments will be provided during each session.
Cost: $350 + HST
All participants should bring
- Their copy of When Mentoring Meets Coaching: shifting the stance in education (Sharpe and Nishimura, 2017),
- Their laminated mentor-coaching conversation guide.
Originally posted with the Foundational Coaching Skills Training announcement on the Ontario Principals’ Council website.