Student-Centered Coaching: The Podcast

A couple of days ago, I (Brandon) was at work having a conversation with one of my principals about the upcoming year. Throughout our conversation, the same question kept coming up. Are teachers aware of the impact they are making? As we were talking about that and as the days followed, I kept coming back to this conversation that Diane and I had with Kara Vandas in 2022. We all know that in educa...

It's been 10 years since Diane and Leanna wrote Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves. We're excited to officially announce the release of the 2nd Edition! This is such a fun conversation about the differences in this edition compared to the first, as well as a celebration of the work that has taken place around the world for students and teachers! To order your copy, click here . Not only does it...

Ever been a new teacher and dealt with imposter syndrome? Let's be honest...ever done anything and dealt with imposter syndrome?? We've all been there. We know how real that feeling is. In this uplifting, very genuine conversation, we dig into the relationship between a coach and a 1st year teacher from Cleveland Heights. Jennifer (coach) and Katie (teacher) share about their experiences together...

We wanted to rerelease this episode again 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've tuned in before 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. Regardles...

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...

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 discu...

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-C...

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 sum...

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, w...

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...

"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...

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...

As the school year is getting underway around the world, many of you are entering coaching partnerships with teachers who are in year one with a new resource/curriculum. As instructional coaches, do we need to alter what we do or how we exist within our coaching work? Sarah Auld (teammate of the beloved Ben Scott from Ep. 1), from Battleground, WA joins us to talk about coaching in a resource adop...

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 th...

And we're back!!! Spring has been busy, but we wanted to get this out to you all before the end of the year. Tiffany Dowling, a K-3 Reading Specialist in Enterprise, AL, joins Diane and Brandon to discuss how she utilizes the Results-Based Coaching Tool to enhance her coaching partnerships with teachers (and maybe even students?)! While the RBCT was the topic of the conversation, it is full of wor...

Happy New Year to everyone! Join Diane and Brandon as they discuss a very popular topic this time of year, goal setting! While the "new year" for educators is late summer to early fall, ringing in the actual new year on January 1 can be a great time to reflect, recalibrate, and set goals moving forward. We hope you enjoy the discussion! As mentioned in the episode, you can find Diane's latest blog...

In this episode, Diane and Brandon are joined by Azra Bosnjak from Boise Schools. As a middle school learning coach, Azra discusses one of the Core Practices of Student-Centered Coaching, co-teaching. In just year 2 as a coach, it's pretty evident that she has a bright career ahead of her!  Don't forget to join the conversation on our Facebook Community and Instagram !

In Episode 16, Diane and Brandon discussed the idea of planning then (May) for "Launching the New Year." Now two months deep into the current school year, they are joined by Rachel Court, an Elementary Instructional Coach from Sioux Falls, SD to discuss the approaches she took to launch her year of coaching!    At the 23:20 mark of the episode, Diane references a list of questions from Moves for L...

It's that time of the year again! As we enter the season of kicking off a new school year, many coaches find themselves navigating newly formed partnerships with a different administrator. Brandon jumps to the other side for this episode, alongside Rachel Hill from Tuscaloosa, AL, as they discuss their relationships with their building's newly hired principals. Diane offers many questions to consi...

The school year is quickly coming to a close. What better time to start conversations for the start of next year than right now? Diane and Brandon discuss what these conversations can sound like, as well as potential ideas for coaching that will start in classrooms on the first day of school next year. Please join us for more conversations around the topics from each episode. Click here to join th...

Listen in as Diane and Brandon open up the mailbag! Questions were gathered from listeners and conversations around coaching ensued. Thanks to all that sent in questions...hope you enjoy!

Diane and Brandon were joined by Brett Twiss , Learning Coach at Capital High School in Boise, ID. Fresh off the heels of a massive investment in student-centered coaches (50 new hires in the district for this past fall), Brett shares about his early successes, his desire to amplify the great things that are taking place, and his desire to coach from the role of a learner. After hearing the conver...

Amanda Brueggeman joined us for a very insightful conversation on the partnership between the coach, the mentor, and the mentee. Her new book, Student-Centered Mentor , focuses on how to shape that partnership to make it student-centered. Amanda is also a member of Diane's consulting team, where she gets to partner with coaches around the country. Hope you enjoy it! 

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 ( @...

Robin Blair is the Director of AMSTI (Alabama Math, Science, and Technology Initiative). She joins Diane and Brandon this episode to discuss leading teams of coaches and the impact this work is having in the state of Alabama.