Coaches as Leaders
Leverage Your Leadership as an Instructional Coach!
An online course and community designed for experienced coaches ready to lead!
Are you an experienced coach ready to lead?
Have you been coaching for more than 3 years and you’re ready to leverage your leadership in your role as a coach, and beyond?
Even experienced coaches often don’t see themselves as leaders, but you lead by:
- Advocating for the needs of teachers
- Advocating for the work of coaches
- Supporting the implementation of school-wide goals at the teacher and classroom level
- Providing a division or school-wide view of teaching and learning to school leaders
Hi! I'm Kim!
After being an instructional coach in international schools for over 15 years, I’ve spent the last decade supporting coaches and school leaders in developing a thriving coaching culture in The Coach Certificate and Mentorship Program, and through my private consulting services.
What I’ve learned is that even with a strong coaching program, and leadership support, coaches need to embrace their leadership capacity to truly make an impact in their school community.
Coaching is a special role, with a unique viewpoint. You work directly with teachers and leaders. You are an expert in pedagogy and adragogy. You have the potential to influence school-wide change through the relationships you build. You know exactly how to maximize the capacity of every staff member on campus.
But, you will only truly leverage this potential once you recognize and embrace your informal leadership as a coach. The exact leadership skills you’re building right now will support you in your coaching role and beyond!
Here's Why You Need to Take Coaches as Leaders!
When you first start out coaching, you are often able to make a big impact by working with individual teachers...
But over time, you need to embrace your leadership to:
- Scale your impact from 1:1 to groups and teams
- Become embedded in the curriculum development structures in your school
- Connect teachers to each other to create a coaching culture
These aspects of coaching as leadership are easy to miss. You can try to stay at the 1:1 individual coaching level, but you will soon run out of time and capacity to work with every teacher individually.
To truly grow a coaching culture you need to leverage your leadership!
What's Inside?
This course focuses on the key areas of leadership that instructional coaches can leverage within their role - and beyond.
Get the Syllabus!
Find out what you’ll learn in the course, including:
- an overview of the course & outcomes
- each of the key themes & topics included
- weekly schedule for the global cohort
By the end of the course, you'll...
Name Your Leadership
Recognize your leadership capacity by identifying and naming the leadership skills you demonstrate in your coaching role so you can confidently articulate your value as a coach
See the Big Picture
Scale Your Impact
Manage Coaching Challenges
Lead Professional Learning
Confidently lead professional learning in a variety of contexts: within your school community & beyond!
Support All Stakeholders
It's not just a course, it's a community!
How does the community work?
Office Hours
Three (3) 20-min sessions with Kim to get all your questions answered!
These optional sessions are available to discuss anything related to coaching – within the course, and beyond.
Sessions are bookable using Calendly – so you can fit these meetings into your schedule whenever works for you! Times display in your time zone to make them easy to book.
Office hours allow you personalize your learning so you always feel supported, and so we can adapt course content to your unique school context
Real Time Community Calls
Learning doesn’t happen in isolation! Connect with other course participants in our global cohort calls.
Five (5) optional sessions are designed to support you in building your personal learning network, and discuss your learning with other community members.
For those who value connecting with others in similar roles, community calls help you make those connections.
Session times are set each cohort, based on the time zones of our global participants.
Note: no real-time meetings are required to complete the course. They are offered as an option to provide the highest quality level of service for our amazing participants!
Course Details & Pricing
Registration Open 7 - 16 Feb 2025
Cohort Runs: 24 Feb - 25 May 2025
Price $750
Immediate access as soon as you purchase:
- Content designed specifically for experienced coaches, ready to leverage their leadership
- self paced access - all content available immediately
- personal support with 3 office hours sessions with Kim
- 5 real-time virtual global cohort meetings to debrief & discuss your learning
- asynchronous conversations within our global cohort community for the duration of the course