Future Learning Opportunities
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The Center for Cognitive Coaching strives to provide ongoing learning opportunities which build capacity
within systems to sustain the work of Cognitive CoachingSM using minimal external resources. The following
learning opportunities are offered as a means for continued internal capacity building.
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| Advanced Seminar—various locations & dates | ||
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Leadership Network Symposium—Denver—January
25–27, 2012 Trainers' Meetings: January 23 & 24, 2012 Pre-Conference: January 25, 2012 Symposium: January 25–27, 2012 |
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| Trainers' Forum—Denver—September 19–21, 2011 | ||
| Application Academies—various locations & dates | ||
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Distance Cognitive CoachingSM |
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Cognitive Coaching Seminars®
Due to the large number of Cognitive Coaching Seminars® offerings that are scheduled, their venues and dates are listed on the "Cognitive Coaching Seminars® Offerings" page.
Visit the "Cognitive Coaching Seminars®" page
for a description of Cognitive Coaching Seminars® and how their dates can be configured and the "Overview of Cognitive CoachingSM" page for a broader description of Cognitive CoachingSM training.
Advanced Seminars provide refinement and depth of learning for those desiring to achieve expert proficiency in Cognitive CoachingSM and are highly supportive of those who wish to begin the pathway to becoming an in-district trainer. By participating in this training, learners will:
- refine and extend core coaching capabilities and skills
- develop skills with advanced forms of paraphrasing, probing for specificity, and inquiring to mediate the thinking of others
- expand the possibilities of and applications for our identities as mediators
- frame personal coaching mastery as a journey, not a destination
If you are interested in more information regarding any of these opportunities, please contact the trainer or
designated contact person listed below.
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Canada—Ontario
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York Region District School Board Newmarket, Ontario, Canada Trainer: John Clarke Contact: Dr. Richard Williamson E-mail: richard.williamson@yrdsb.edu.on.ca |
Part 1 August 20–22, 2012 |
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United States—Kansas
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Derby Public Schools Derby, KS Trainer: Carolee Hayes & Carol Brooks Simoneau Contact: Charlene Laramore E-mail: claramore@usd260.com Telephone: 316–788–8434 Seminar Flyer (1.56 MB, PDF, new page) |
Days 1–5 June 4–8, 2012 |
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United States—Minnesota
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Advanced Seminar, Part 1, & Application Academy: Group Coaching Intermediate District 287 Plymouth, MN (Minneapolis Metro Area) Trainers: Carolee Hayes & Loretta Norgon Contact: Lisa Joseph Registration: On-line registration available on this site. |
Advanced Seminar, Part 1 July 30–August 1, 2012 Application Academy: Group Coaching August 2, 2012 |
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United States—Missouri
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Springfield Public Schools Springfield, MO Trainers: Jane Ellison & Carolee Hayes Contact: Dana Jennings E-mail: djennings@spsmail.org |
Part 1 Days 1–3 June 19–21, 2012 |
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United States—Virginia
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Fairfax County Public Schools Fairfax, VA Trainers: Jane Ellison & Michael Dolcemascolo Contact: Tina Lane E-mail: TMLane@fcps.edu |
Days 1 & 2 February 15 & 16, 2012 Days 3 & 4 March 7 & 8, 2012 Day 5 April 12, 2012 |
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United States—Washington
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Kent School District Kent, WA Trainer: Carolee Hayes Contact: Marcia Woehlbrandt E-mail: marcia.woehlbrandt@kent.k12.wa.us |
Days 1 & 2 November 15 & 16, 2011 Days 3–5 February 15–17, 2012 |
2012 Symposium Synopsis
The 18th annual Cognitive CoachingSM Leadership Network Symposium was held in Denver, Colorado, January 25–27, 2012. The theme was "Who Do We Think We Are: CSI—A Community Sustaining Identity through Thought and Inquiry." The opening night banquet included some team building activities and a great group rendition of "Stand by Me," lead by John Clark. Linda Lambert, the preconference speaker, conducted a day-long session entitled "Self-perception and Leadership: Who Can Lead?" She discussed the old and new assumptions about leadership, emphasizing, "everyone has the right, responsibility, and capability to lead." In talking about "emergence," Lambert suggested that our task is to provide the relationships, structures and learning that will support complex systems in achieving their goals. She offered a Leadership Capacity Matrix with four archetypes based on high and low levels of participation in leadership and high and low depth of leadership skills.
Thursday began with a welcome and announcement of the merger of the Center for Cognitive Coaching and the Center for Adaptive Schools. Participants were invited to make suggestions for naming the new organization. Jane Ellison and Michael Dolcemascolo will be the Executive Directors, Carolee Hayes will be Director of Business, and Carolyn McKanders will be Director of Organizational Culture. With assistance from Skype, Art Costa joined Bob Garmston in presenting "Five Helping Relationships and Connections with States of Mind." The five are facilitating, presenting, coaching, consulting, and networking. Each uses the tools of mediating, monitoring, managing and teaching.
After Thursday's lunch, Linda Lambert took the stage again with a presentation entitled "Coaching for Leadership Capacity." We considered how coaching might look in a school with low participation and high skill in leadership. The day ended with a presentation by Jane Ellison and Carolee Hayes on Reuven Feuerstein's book Beyond Smarter: Mediated Learning and the Brain's Capacity for Change. They assisted the group in considering why a model of coaching that emphasizes thinking will best serve our schools as they move into the future.
Trainers for Adaptive Schools had a short lunch meeting on Wednesday and the Habits of Mind trainers joined one another for breakfast on Friday. Friday morning included small group workshops and book studies conducted by participants. Titles and presenters of workshops were:
"Crosswalking Cognitive CoachingSM, Adaptive Schools, and Habits of Mind" by Michele De Bellis, Michael Dolcemascolo, and Carolyn McKanders
"Coaching for Culturally Proficient Leadership Practices" by Delores Lindsey
"Maintaining Our Focus on Self-Directedness: Using the Calibrating Conversation in the World of High-Stakes Teacher Evaluation" by Lynn Sawyer
"Immunity to Change: Why People Fail in Spite of Their Best Efforts" by Jane Ellison and Carol Simoneau
"Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Approach to Change" by Jim Roussin
Book studies were:
The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, facilitated by Loretta Norgon
How to Teach Now by Bill and Ochan Powell, facilitated by Luci Garza
Presence by Peter Senge et al, facilitated by Ann Pearce
Inevitable: Mass Customized Learning by Charles Schwan and Beatrice McGarvey, facilitated by Toni Prickett
The Symposium closed with a presentation by Bob Garmston on his latest book, I Don't Do that Anymore: A Memoir of Awakening and Resilience. The audience showed their appreciation with a standing ovation. Bob shared this poem he wrote as part of his presentation:
Autobiography
what is life
but energy seeking expression
a yearning for fulfillment in its DNA
persistent enough to treat obstructions
as challengesin rich or poor soil
under cloudy skies or stormy
its desires will not be deniedas long
as it survives its perilous path
as long as false starts
are perceive and corrected
as long as it senses its own being
as long as encounters
make it smarter
it will prevailthis is no fairy tale
no story of Herculean proportion
it is what
is natural
A special thanks to this year's Symposium committee: John Clarke, Delores Lindsey, Loretta Norgon, Peggy Olcott, Ann Pearce, Sue Presler, Toni Prickett, and Lynn Sawyer.
Please join us January 16–17, 2013, for the next Symposium to be sponsored
by the newly combined Centers for Cognitive CoachingSM and Adaptive Schools.
Denver, CO—September 19–21, 2011
Combined Cognitive CoachingSM, Adaptive Schools,
& Habits of Mind Trainers' Forum
Featuring Co-Trainers Michelle De Bellis (HOM),
Michael Dolcemascolo (AS), Jane Ellison (CC),
Carolee Hayes (CC), & Carolyn McKanders (AS)
What is the Trainers' Forum? The Trainers' Forum is designed to support trainers developing and refining their skills in the areas of Cognitive CoachingSM, Adaptive Schools, or Habits of Mind. The Forum will last three days, with two days focusing on presentation skills and one day focusing on registrants' choice of Adaptive Schools, Cognitive CoachingSM, or Habits of Mind. Registration is for all three days.
The Trainers' Forum is an opportunity to develop a rich understanding of the training design for Cognitive CoachingSM, Adaptive Schools, or Habits of Mind. This training is required to become a Cognitive CoachingSM or Adaptive Schools Training Associate (national and international consultant) and highly recommended for those wishing to become an Agency Trainer (district or other agency-based trainer).
Participants will be given individual reading assignments to complete prior to attending the training and will engage in a highly interactive seminar for the three days of the Forum.
Who Should Participate? Training associates, agency trainers, and anyone aspiring to become a Cognitive CoachingSM, Adaptive Schools, or Habits of Mind trainer. A prerequisite for the Forum is that attendees must have completed the first level training for Cognitive CoachingSM, Adaptive Schools, or Habits of Mind.
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Marriott South at Park Meadows (new window) 10345 Park Meadows Drive Littleton, Colorado 80124
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$700.00 |
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$129.00, plus tax, per room per night, single or double occupancy, at: Denver Marriott South at Park Meadows (new window) 10345 Park Meadows Drive Littleton, Colorado 80124
Telephone:
800-686-2767
303-925-0004
Fax:
303-925-0005
Please make your lodging reservations directly with Denver Marriott South at Park Meadows, either by using one of the telephone numbers listed above or by visiting the hotel's Web site (new window). When using one of the links on this page to the hotel's Web site, the group code for our conference will automatically be sent to the hotel's site so you can take advantage of our conference room rate for the dates of the Forum. You will need to set the check-in and check-out dates on the first page on the hotel's Web site. When making reservations by telephone or fax, be sure to ask for the "Cognitive CoachingSM" room block in order to take advantage of our conference room rate. |
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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.
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Group Coaching
March 28, 2012Hamilton School District
Hamilton, Michigan
Trainer: Carolee Hayes
Contact: Barb Ferguson
E-mail: bferguso@hamiltonschools.us
April 16, 2012Intermediate District 287
Plymouth, Minnesota (Minneapolis Metro Area)
Trainers: Carolee Hayes & Loretta Norgon
On-line registration available on this Web site.
August 2, 2012Prerequisite: 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 school‚'s 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 child‚'s learning, their teacher‚'s interpersonal communication skills and the school‚'s 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.
Proficiency Modules
Proficiency modules are one-day trainings designed to deepen knowledge and skill acquired in Part 1 of the Cognitive Coaching Seminars®. Modules can be implemented individually or in a 2-, 3-, 4- or 5-day sequence. Modules provide an opportunity for participants to customize training to meet their unique needs. The following are the types of Proficiency Module training currently available:
Promoting Self-Directedness
—deepens participants understanding of the concept of holonomy and its inherent tensions. States of mind are revisited for richer use in coaching individuals and groups.
Using Data to Mediate Thinking
—designed to support principals and coaches wishing to develop a culture where data is a source of continual renewal and improvement. Participants will have the opportunity to review and consider the processes of the Cognitive CoachingSM Planning and Reflecting Map in relation to using data to mediate thinking. The module will support both individual and group coaching using data.
Coaching with Filters of Perception
—reviews the learning about Filters of Perception from the Cognitive Coaching Seminars®. In addition other filters are introduced. Participants will consider how filters of perception relate to cognitive shift.
Reflecting and Planning Maps
—explores each region of the planning and reflecting maps and provides participants with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of the relationship between the two maps.
Coaching Tools
—gives participants an opportunity to review and work for greater proficiency with the basic coach's toolkit: rapport, pausing, paraphrasing, probing and inquiring.
The Problem-Resolving Map
—provides deep review of the Problem-Resolving Map. Participants will practice using the tool of pacing using a rubric. The Lead and the strategies for inviting cognitive shift will be revisited.
An outline of training topics covered in the Proficiency Modules can be seen in this PDF document: Proficiency Modules Outline (40 KB, new window).
The following is a listing of dates and locations where Proficiency Module training will be conducted in the near future. Some of these trainings are available for those outside of the contracting agency and others are not. If you are interested in more information regarding any of these opportunities, please contact the appropriate trainer or designated contact person listed below.
No Proficiency Module workshops scheduled at this time.
Distance Cognitive CoachingSM
What is Distance Cognitive CoachingSM?
Distance Cognitive CoachingSM provides for personalized Cognitive CoachingSM over the telephone. Your coach will assess your needs, set goals with you, and set up a plan for your support.
Many CEOs and other leaders have used this type of coaching to enhance their performance. It can be short- or long-term, depending on your needs. The goal is to support your growth and success in whatever areas you choose.
How do I access this service?
Review
the list of Distance Cognitive Coaches by clicking on the button to the right and then clicking on the names of
coaches you might want to contact. Clicking on a name in this list gives you access to information about that person.
You can then contact one of these coaches by e-mail or phone to set up your initial conversation.
How much will it cost?
Your initial conversation is free. Each conversation after that is $100. Your coach will invoice you directly.
What if I have other questions?
Contact Carolee Hayes, Co-Director of the Center for Cognitive Coaching at ccscarolee@aol.com.
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