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Application Academies

Application Academies are one-day trainings designed to extend and apply learning from the Cognitive Coaching Seminars®. Application Academies provide participants with an opportunity to study and learn to apply Cognitive CoachingSM in ways that go beyond the one-on-one coaching between principals and teachers.

Current Application Academy offerings are listed below. If you are interested in attending one of these learning opportunities, please contact the trainer listed for that offering.

If you are interested in offering any of these Academies in your agency as follow-up to Cognitive Coaching Seminars®, please contact Carolee Hayes or Jane Ellison, Co-Directors for the Center.

  • Group Coaching
     

    Los Angeles Unified School District
    Los Angeles, California
    Trainer: Carolee Hayes
    Contact: Mylene Keipp
    E-mail: mylene.keipp@lausd.net
    NOTE: Participation is limited to Los Angeles Unified School District staff.
    Cohort 1:
    May 13, 2013

    Cohort 2:
    May 14, 2013

    Prerequisite: Cognitive Coaching Seminars®.
    Description: Cognitive CoachingSM was developed as a means to support individuals. As knowledge of that process developed, questions arose about how the same knowledge, skills and tools might be applied with groups and organizations. Given the shortage of time in schools, it makes sense to think about group and organizational applications of coaching. This academy will consider how group coaching differs from facilitation and individual coaching. Core group coaching capabilities will be described as a framework for thinking about how small group coaching skills build on individual coaching skills. Applications and possibilities for the impact of group coaching will be explored. Principles and practices for using Cognitive CoachingSM as a tool for developing collaborative groups will be presented.
     

  • Cognitive CoachingSM in the Classroom

    No trainings of this type scheduled at this time.

    Prerequisite: Cognitive Coaching Seminars®.
    Description: As Cognitive CoachingSM permeates the culture of a school and becomes a part of the way staff interacts with each other that way of communicating also extends to students, parents and community members. This academy will focus on the ways teachers are using Cognitive CoachingSM with students and in parent-teacher conferences. Perhaps the most basic unit in any schools communication with those outside the school is the parent-teacher conference. Applying Cognitive CoachingSM to this key form of communication enhances parents' understanding of their childs learning, their teachers interpersonal communication skills and the schools norms of thinking and collaboration. Without classroom applications of Cognitive CoachingSM ideals, the values and beliefs of Cognitive CoachingSM will live and die with the adults in the system. Many teachers use the principles of Cognitive CoachingSM intuitively or informally with their students. Applying Cognitive CoachingSM in a deliberate, intentional way increases the self-directedness of students.
     

  • Cognitive CoachingSM for School Leaders

    No trainings of this type scheduled at this time.

    Prerequisite: Cognitive Coaching Seminars®.
    Description: When Cognitive CoachingSM is a priority with the principal of a school, he or she surpasses the concept of the principal as instructional leader and becomes the organizational developer of the school. As such, the principal's focus is on developing: 1) shared norms and values, 2) knowledge of principals of learning and teaching, 3) collaborative decision-making structures, and 4) processes that provide for ongoing growth, efficiency and effectiveness. Leaders who use Cognitive CoachingSM increase the capacity for self-directedness within their organization. This Academy will explore the ways in which principals can embed the principles of thinking and collaboration into the culture of their building, so that they are expected ways of interacting with everyone in the school.
     
 

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