Whether you are a brand new coach, or a coach looking to expand your skill set, these sessions will help you identify how to nudge your collaborative teacher teams to achieve greater impact on student learning. As coaches, if we aren’t coaching for equity we are complicit in reproducing an inequitable system. We can coach and take action in what we see in schools, where we look, who we listen to, our self-awareness, and finally, what we say about what we see and hear. We have a professional obligation to lead and coach in a way that surfaces and interrupts inequities and transforms practices that help us to create the schools children deserve.

These sessions will offer an opportunity to reflect on ways of being, identity and how to support teams in navigating the stages of team development. This contributes to cultivating the conditions that create the optimal learning conditions to build trust, connections and psychological safety that teams need in order to engage in cognitive dissonance necessary to embrace innovative practices that disrupt the status quo and help center equity. When this foundation has been laid, teams can more effectively reflect on how their social identities shape how we see ourselves, our students, our families.

As a result of participating in this series, Instructional Coaches will have strategies that:
 

• support reflection and exploration of self

• support coaches in how to help educators explore beliefs and mindsets

• facilitate asset based, student centered conversations and planning for a diverse normative