Instructional Coaching: Beyond the Basics is a one-day learning experience designed for coaches, coaching leaders, administrators, teacher leaders, and experienced educators who are ready to deepen their coaching practice and strengthen their impact. Building on the foundational concepts of instructional coaching, this workshop helps participants refine their coach way of being while expanding the advanced communication, reflection, facilitation, and feedback skills that move coaching from supportive conversations to transformational growth.
Grounded in contemporary coaching research and influenced by the work of Jim Knight, Joellen Killion, Diane Sweeney, Steve Barkley, Elena Aguilar, Michael Bungay Stanier, and others, this workshop focuses on the deeper moves of coaching: developing reflective conversations, navigating complexity, promoting shared ownership, strengthening PLC facilitation, and using coaching language that builds trust, clarity, and professional growth. Participants will actively engage in scenario-based practice, collaborative conversations, and reflection opportunities designed to help coaches examine who they are as a coach today and who they want to become next.
This workshop is ideal for:
- Instructional coaches ready to level up their coaching practice
- Veteran coaches seeking fresh thinking and renewed intentionality
- Newer coaches who already possess foundational coaching skills
- Coaching leaders and administrators supporting coaching systems
- Teacher leaders wanting to strengthen facilitation and feedback skills
- Coaching teams looking to deepen and calibrate coaching practices
Participants will:
- Discuss who they are as a coach right now and who they want to become
- Identify the most productive coaching activities and distinguish activity from impact
- Apply the hardiness lenses of commitment, control, and challenge to expand coaching approaches
- Use coaching moves that promote shared ownership, clarity, and learning within PLCs
- Engage in epic conversation structures that move teachers from surface talk to meaningful reflection
- Practice radical listening and strategic silence to deepen thinking and trust
- Paraphrase beyond best intent in ways that honor teacher thinking and move conversations forward
- Ask high-leverage questions that support reflection, clarity, and next steps
- Strengthen goal-setting and feedback practices that increase coaching impact
- Apply learning through a bring-your-own-scenario coaching protocol
Instructional Coaching: Beyond the Basics is designed for coaches who are ready to move beyond foundational strategies and into the deeper, more intentional work of transformational coaching. If you are ready to sharpen your coaching moves, elevate your conversations, and grow your coaching impact, this workshop is your next step.