Can't think of a better way to celebrate National Instructional Coaching Day than sharing this conversation with you all! Michelle Yerkes, Field Specialist in Maricopa County (Arizona), joined us to share the successes of her coaching team. Over the course of the past three years, they have been on a path of learning, coaching, and growing kids! Her excitement is contagious, and we can't wait for you to hear her story...enjoy!

Welcome back! We hope your school year is off to a fantastic start...full of smiling faces on kids that are hungry to learn! For those of you that might feel discouraged by that last sentence because you don't feel like that's your current reality YET, I think you're going to enjoy hearing from Shelley Bond, Principal at Maple Grove Elementary in Boise, ID. The focus of our time together was discussing the role of the principal in creating a culture for coaching in the building, from partnering with the coach to setting up and protecting the different roles. We also spent time talking about about Maple Grove specifically, and their building goal around JOY. We hope that listening to Shelley and her passion to bring joy to her building will leave you thinking about how you can add joy to all you do, as well as help others around you do the same! Thanks for listening!

The school year is quickly approaching and this is an episode that should be listened to every year at this time. Launching your year of Student-Centered Coaching successfully has such a tremendous impact on the work that will take place throughout the entire school year! Listen in as Diane's co-authors, Leanna Harris and Julie Steele discuss their book, Moves for Launching a New Year of Student-Centered Coaching.

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Diane's new book (or maybe we should call it a "resource" - you need to listen to better understand that reference), Moves for Launching a New Year of Student-Centered Coaching, is now available for preorder! They will arrive on August 1...just in time for the start of school. While you're waiting for it to arrive, we hope you enjoy our conversation with the other two co-authors, Leanna Harris (@leannaharris22) and Julie Steele (@JulieTier1). They discuss the structure, new thinking that is included, and ways that coaches can utilize this to make their start to the year the best one yet! Hope you enjoy, and click here to grab your own copy!

It has been a while since Diane and Brandon have done a Q/A episode. What better time than the last week of school as we are wrapping up our year and thinking about/planning the next? Questions came in from our Facebook group, as well as The Hub for Student-Centered Coaching. Questions ranged from celebrating success to culture within a building. We hope this finds all of you well...enjoy your summer with family and friends!

Links from episode:

dianesweeney.com

The Hub for Student-Centered Coaching

Facebook: A Community for Student-Centered Coaching

We wanted to rerelease this episode with Chris Cutrona, CEO of EdSightful, from July 18, 2024. If you didn't get a chance to listen, we wanted to put it in front of you again. If you tuned in last summer and were able to utilize the Results-Based Coaching Tool (RBCT) this school year, listening again can be valuable as well as you now enter this conversation through a different lens. Regardless, we hope you enjoy!

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We've talked about measuring the impact of coaching using the Results-Based Coaching Tool (RBCT), but we've never talked about it like this! Joining Diane and Brandon on this episode is Chris Cutrona, CEO of EdSightful to discuss how he has taken the RBCT and transformed it into an amazing dashboard for coaches to utilize to measure their impact. Chris and Diane also just released a blogpost on the same topic that includes links to demos, where you can see it in action as well. We hope you enjoy this conversation!

EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT!!! If you're interested in purchasing the RBCT dashboard, you can now contact the EdSightful team directly on their website or by emailing them at chris.cutrona@edsightful.com.

Diane also referenced a previous blogpost (Student-Centered Coaching Cycles) in the episode. For all blogposts, don't forget to check them out at dianesweeney.com!

There's nothing better than sitting down for a conversation with someone to talk about their passion! Amber Birch-Trujillo's happens to be the topic of the "Asset-Based Mindset." It comes out in work. It comes out in her friendships. It is the very essence of who Amber is. This conversation has already caused many changes in my (Brandon) work with teachers and students, and we know that it will do the same for you as well!

"When teachers believe, student achieve!" It was this mantra that ignited Glenn Forbes, principal from Queensland, Australia and his pursuit to learn more about Collective Teacher Efficacy. Through reaching out to Jenni Donohoo, best-selling author and learning facilitator, and learning more from her, his passion continue to grow and ultimately led to the much anticipated release of their new book, Collective Impact! Join Diane and Brandon as they dig into the new text with Jenni and Glenn and uncover so many opportunities for "slaying the enemies!" We hope you enjoy!

Click here to get your copy of Collective Impact.

Click here for more information on this year's Student-Centered Coaching: The Workshop in Denver, CO.

You know that feeling you get when you see something successful and you just have to tell others about it? That's how we feel when we partner with Brittany Gonser and her team of instructional coaches in the Shawnee Mission School District. Join Brittany, Director of Professional Learning at SMSD, as she sits down with us and discusses so many factors, from a systems point of view all the way down to how her past experiences shape the decisions she makes, that has led to their team being what it is today.

We hope this episode finds you well as you enter the holiday season! Enjoy!