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We hope you've had a chance to watch our Level Up Your Coaching miniseries of 8 episodes, featuring perspectives on coaching from our inspiring educators from around the world! Just in case you missed an episode, we've pulled together the key highlights from each conversation in this one video! Instead of hearing all the perspectives to one question, today's episode will feature one educators resp...

Welcome back to our mini-series Level Up Your Coaching. We interview two school leaders, two teachers, two librarians and two school counselors to get their perspectives on coaching.   It's our last episode in this mini-series and our guest panel of experts share their responses to the question, what was your "aha" moment that shifted your perspective from not caring about coaching to being on boa...

Welcome back to our mini-series Level Up Your Coaching. We interview two school leaders, two teachers, two librarians and two school counselors to get their perspectives on coaching.   In this episode our guest panel of experts share their responses to the question, what makes a coach invaluable to you? Full Show Notes https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter/episode-31

Welcome back to our mini-series Level Up Your Coaching. We interview two school leaders, two teachers, two librarians and two school counselors to get their perspectives on coaching.   In this episode our guest panel of experts share their responses to the question, where do coaches/does coaching fail and what can we do about it?   Full Show Notes https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter/episode...

Welcome back to our mini-series Level Up Your Coaching. We interview two school leaders, two teachers, two librarians and two school counselors to get their perspectives on coaching.   In this episode our guest panel of experts share their responses to the question, w hat are the essential elements for coaching success in a school and w hat's needed to build a coaching culture?   Full Show Notes h...

Welcome back to our mini-series Level Up Your Coaching. We interview two school leaders, two teachers, two librarians and two school counselors to get their perspectives on coaching.   In this episode our guest panel of experts share their responses to the question, what do you do when you don't have the opportunity to work with a coach?   Full Show Notes https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter...

Welcome back to our mini-series Level Up Your Coaching. We interview two school leaders, two teachers, two librarians and two school counselors to get their perspectives on coaching.   In this episode our guest panel of experts share their responses to the question, what are some good opportunities for coaches to work with you?   Full Show Notes https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter/episode-2...

Welcome to our new mini-series Level Up Your Coaching. We interview two school leaders, two teachers, two librarians and two school counselors to get their perspectives on coaching.   In this episode our guest panel of experts share their responses to the question, how do you work with coaches at your school?     Full Show Notes https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter/episode-26

Welcome to our new mini-series Level Up Your Coaching. We interview two school leaders, two teachers, two librarians and two school counselors to get their perspectives on coaching.   In this episode our guest panel of experts share their responses to the question, what do coaches do? It's inspiring to hear both the depth of understanding about coaching from so many different educators, as well as...

In this episode we're chatting with Pana, Maggie, Tim, Dave and Diana from the our original Coaching Fundamentals series! Our topic for today was "who coaches the coaches?" - especially when you're the only learning coach in your school setting. Our team of experienced coaches share the different ways that they develop their coaching skills, as well as what they WISH they had access to when they f...

Today we're chatting with  Diana Beabout, Innovation Coach at American International School of Guangzhou. Diana is also the Academy Mentor for our Eduro Learning The Coach Microcredential, and we love talking about coaching whenever we get the chance! Side note: our third cohort of The Coach Microcredential starts soon - and this conversation is a great preview to why you might be interested in jo...

Today we're chatting with Lissa, Geoff, Tanya and Diana from the #isedcoach slowchat team! We talked about everything from the different types of coaching roles we all have in our schools, to the power of social media for professional growth. Learning more about how this team works together to bring you a monthly slowchat on Twitter gives us some great insight into the value of connected learning....

Today we're chatting with the entire #coachbetter slowchat team! Jana is a Tech Coach in Germany, Nick is a Kindergarten teacher at UWC Thailand, and Verena is an EdTech Coach at the German European School in Singapore. We talk about the amazing learning potential of being a contributor (and not just a consumer) of social media - and - how facilitating this slow chat has made them more connected a...

Today, Kim is talking with Adrienne Michetti, Middle School Digital Literacy Coach at United World College Southeast Asia, East Campus. Adrienne has tons of practical tips and strategies to build relationships and make coaching successful, especially in such a large school community. Full Show Notes here:   https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter/episode-20

In this episode we're chatting with Nici Foote, Grade 3 classroom teacher at Western Academy of Beijing in China. Nici has just arrived at WAB and in her previous school she was a coach, so she brings us a very important perspective: the classroom teacher who was just a coach! In her current role of classroom teacher she is reminded of all the critical things that coaches can easily forget when th...

In this episode we're chatting with Tico Oms, Middle School Dean of Students at the International School Bangkok. Tico shares his experience and perspective as a school leader coming from a background in the fast-moving high tech industry. Tico helps define the power of coaching in an innovative school environment as well as the potential of being a lone "island of trust" if you're working in a mo...

Introducing our 8 Experts in our new series: Level Up Your Coaching.  

Hello coaches! Welcome back to another episode of Coach. Better! Today Kim is chatting with two of our amazing participants in the second cohort of our The Coach microcredential: Jana Poukka and Nadia Ellis. Jana is currently a Technology Coach in Germany, and Nadia is a grade 3 classroom teacher and team leader in Vietnam. Jana and Nadia are both new to coaching and describe their professional gr...

Woohoo! Great things are coming to the channel in 2019! We're so excited about all the developments in our #coachbetter series that Kim had to share them here with you! Plus you get a sneak peak at one of our new series coming in 2019 called 5 Minute Friday with quick coaching tips in under 5 minutes every week! The one shared in this bonus episode is 5 Ways to Become a Better Learning Coach.

In this episode we're chatting with our panel of coaching experts from our Coaching Fundamentals series about demonstrating your value as a coach. If you missed our Coaching Fundamentals series, we have a link in our full shownotes to it. This conversation was full of practical strategies and tips for tracking, documenting and sharing the value coaches add to any school. We talked the different ty...

Today we're chatting with Will Kirkwood, Educational Technology Coordinator in the Lower School of Zurich International School. Will shares his thoughts on how to reposition his role as a tech coach "from having cool experiences and fixing things, to engaging in conversations about improving student learning". Full Show Notes here: https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter/episode-15

In this episode, we're chatting with Adam Clark, Secondary School Counselor at Yokohama International School in Japan.  Adam highlights the importance of building an open and collaborative school culture where teachers, coaches, students and leaders all feel safe enough to be vulnerable in their individual learning journeys.  Full Show Notes here: https://elpn.edurolearning.com/coachbetter/episode...

This week we're talking to Danny Glasner, K12 Teacher-Librarian at UWC Thailand in Phuket. Over the course of his career, Danny has been a classroom teacher, librarian, and a coach, so draws from lots of different experiences in our conversation about librarians and coaches today! He highlights the importance of collaborative relationships in making coaching most effective and points out some real...

In this episode we're chatting with Jabiz Raisdana, Head of Grade 8 and Middle School English Teacher at United World College, SouthEast Asia in Singapore. As an experienced classroom teacher, digital literacy coach, and school leader, Jabiz shares his perspectives about building a successful coaching relationship. Jabiz highlights the importance of viewing your colleagues as human beings and the...

In this episode of #coachbetter we talk about tips and advice when moving to a 1:1 program, plus the pros and cons of BYOD. It gets a little spicy!