Events
Join me at one of these in person & virtual events this academic year!
St. Mary's International School Teacher Orientation
8 - 9 Aug 2024
Two days of learning with the St. Mary’s faculty. Day 1 with Middle Level Leaders on Embracing Your Informal Leadership, highlighting skills needed to build relational leadership, team professional growth and collaboration, and navigating different types of conversations. Day 2 with Full Faculty on Unpacking a Coaching Mindset exploring the 5 domains that help us build a coaching culture & collaborative teams.
Kaohsiung American School
29 - 30 Aug 2024
Building on our remote work for the past year, two days of learning with the KAS Middle Level Leaders. Day 1 focused on developing focused and collaborative teams, planning for a year of action, and growing your informal leadership. Day 2 focused on unpacking two different types of conversations: accountable and coaching conversations.
The Coach Global Cohort 9: Registration 5 - 16 Sep 2024
Cohort Runs: 23 Sep 2024- 11 May 2025 (school holidays off!)
Leadership Learning Series: Coaching
The Leadership Learning Series: Coaching is a joint project between AAIE, AAICIS and AISH. This series aims to broaden the conversation round instructional coaching for school leaders.
Featuring experts in instructional coaching in international schools and AAICIS Founding Team Members: Joellen Killion, Jordan Benedict, Tico Oms & Samantha Olson-Wyman, along with Kim Cofino.
Topics:
- – Why Coaching?
- – What Makes Coaching Work?
- – Who Should Be a Coach?
- – How to Create a Coaching Culture?
This series is free for AAICIS Members, AAIE Members & AISH Members.
NESA Fall Leadership Institute: 17 - 20 October 2024
Explore “Vantages and Viewpoints” as we face our narratives – the stories we tell and the actions we take – through four lenses, and together cultivate new perspectives on education.
Closing Plenary: FACING OURSELVES, Kim Cofino
In this interactive engagement plenary, Building a Coaching Culture: The Power of Reflection for Adult Learners, Kim Cofino of Eduro Learning leads us to explore the power of reflection through coaching.
EARCOS Leadership Conference: 24 - 25 October 2024
Conference Theme: Belonging and Becoming
Workshop: Creating a Sense of Belonging Through Instructional Coaching
Featuring stories & evidence from schools around the world, as well as the results from the recent AAICIS landscape study, this session explores the state of instructional coaching in international schools today. Properly-implemented instructional coaching does much more than “just” improve student learning; it creates a culture of growth and belonging which can lead to greater teacher satisfaction and retention. Coaching empowers all learners to flourish and develops humanizing organizations. You’ll leave this session with the 3 key criteria needed to build a successful and sustainable instructional coaching program, along with specific pitfalls to avoid along the way.
Getting Started as an Instructional Coach Global Cohort 4: Registration 1 - 10 Nov 2024
Cohort Runs: 18 Nov 2024 - 9 Feb 2025
Designed for new and aspiring instructional coaches who want to make the transition from the classroom to coaching as smooth as possible. Concise and focused, this course will help you make the mindset & skillset shifts needed to be successful as a coach
AAICIS Leader Speaker Series
The Annual AAICIS Leaders Speaker Series features a series of 10 real-time virtual conversations with a different expert speaker each month. This series is targeted to school leaders, curriculum leaders and instructional coaching leaders.
This series is free for AAICIS School Members.
Workshop: The Complexities of Instructional Coaching in International Schools (3 Dec 2024)
Instructional coaching is a complex and informal leadership role that requires balancing peer relations with leadership perceptions. Factors like school culture, leadership alignment, and support structures heavily influence coaching success, demanding new skills. In international schools, added complexities often go unrecognized. This session will explore five key factors that amplify the complexity of instructional coaching in international settings, helping both coaches and leaders better support and sustain effective coaching programs.
Women Who Lead: JCIS Event at Seisen International School
11 Jan 2025
A one day event for educators at JCIS Schools hosted at Seisen International School, highlighting the stories and research in my recent book, Finding Your Path as a Woman in School Leadership. Registration opens soon!
St. Mary's International School PD Day
13 Jan 2024
Continuing our work from August, building a culture of coaching with all faculty, and developing data driven practices with the middle leadership team.
EARCOS Webinar: 25 January 2025
The Coaching Mindset: Working Better Together
Research shows that collective efficacy is the number one factor impacting student achievement. When we are able to work better together, students learn better. Bringing a coaching mindset to all of your interactions creates an environment of respect, caring, and growth. Any educator who embraces a coaching mindset will learn how to get the best out of themselves, their peers and their students. When the whole community embraces a coaching mindset we’re creating a foundation for collective efficacy. This session will explore the Five Domains of a Coaching Mindset and how you can begin to implement this process in your school (and your classroom) immediately! Bring the power of coaching to your school community by embracing a coaching mindset this year!
EARCOS Teachers Conference: 19 - 22 Mar 2025
Pre-Conference: 3 Steps to Building a Thriving Coaching Culture
Is your school working to build a coaching culture? Many schools in the EARCOS region are hiring instructional coaches and building coaching programs, but there is still a lot of uncertainty around what makes an instructional coaching program work. Some are successful, and others struggle.
In this pre-conference, you’ll learn the value of developing a coaching culture to create a sense of belonging, as well as exactly what’s needed to create a thriving coaching culture. Plus, you’ll get the tools to identify the gaps in your coaching program so you can take action immediately! Are you ready to build the foundations of a thriving coaching culture in your school this year?
Coaches as Leaders Global Cohort 2: Registration 7 - 16 Feb 2025
Cohort Runs: 24 Feb - 25 May 2025
Designed for experienced coaches who are ready to leverage their leadership to make a bigger impact in their school setting. You’ll walk away ready to lead, and advocate for, your coaching program, so you can take your next step into more formal leadership.
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