The number 1 mistake I see is when schools invest in hiring coaches, but don’t build the structures needed to actually have a coaching culture.
The Coach gives you the structure to build a great foundation and coaching system, right in your own school. It has pushed my thinking and gave me a plethora of resources to have conversations with my administrators and teachers. And even though not directly, it’s made me a better teacher with my students.
Key resources for each theme selected by our mentors. Not a brain dump of content – these are highly curated resources collected over Kim and Diana’s decades of coaching experience, so skip straight to the good stuff without wasting time on the fluff.
Weekly video lessons created by our mentors highlighting the key themes for your learning. These video lessons put the resources and the weekly challenges into context so you can understand how they can work in practice and in your school context.
Practical and relevant action tasks for you to apply your learning within your school context. Not your typical university level course, these tasks are all about personalizing your experience so you can put into action everything you’re learning right away. No essays, no required number of comments here. Just straight up learning and action.
Private online course forums for reflection, sharing and feedback from coaching cohort and your mentor. A shared space for your cohort to connect around the specific issues and challenges you face in your coaching context, so you can see you’re not the only one struggling with these obstacles.
Resources curated from the top researchers in instructional coaching including Jim Knight, Elena Aguilar, Diane Sweeney, Joellen Killion, Steve Barkley.
So that you can have a foundation of ALL coaching styles before you determine what works best for you and your school.
Perfect for you to message your mentor in real-time and get support right as you need it!
Plus, all other cohort participants are members, so you can connect with everyone on a personal level right away!
With Academy and Premium options you have access to a dedicated mentor for the entire academic year. Your mentor is not just for the academic content, but everything that is going on in your coaching role and beyond.
The Coach participants and mentors are located all around the world, so you will be building your Personal Learning Network immediately upon joining. Knowing that you’re not alone in this journey is one of the most valuable aspects of our coaching community.
With Eduro Learning, you receive ultimate flexibility. Eduro works with participants to help them get the most out of The Coach. From flexible payment plans, order of courses, to your personal learning goals, Eduro’s The Coach is flexible to meet your needs.
The Coach not the typical course where you read a bunch of resources and complete assignments. With The Coach, yes, you have access to great resources, but YOU decide how to apply what you learn in your own practice, and reflect on the application and what you’ve learned in the process. The Coach is also way more than all of that. The true value of The Coach is the connection with others. By being a part of a cohort of dedicated learners and having a mentor to guide us along the way, we are able to learn and experience more. We share our experiences, our perspectives, our learning journeys, and our ideas. We support and encourage each other to get the most out of the course.
One of our most popular mini courses (designed to take 3-5 hours to complete) will give you a quick peek at what learning inside the Coach will look like. Plus this course is NOT included in the Coach Microcredential so you’re getting extra content even if you decide to purchase the full Microcredential after!
The format of a great professional learning experience was laid out clearly. The emphasis on participants doing most of the talking and exploring was an important reminder. I will certainly take this back to my sessions.
The Honor option is designed for those who are looking for access to all course content and to become a part of the Eduro Learning community without re-certification credits, Clock Hours/CEC credits, and a mentor.
The Academy option is perfect for those who would like to go through the Coach learning with a small group of other participants and a mentor.
With the Academy option, you get access to all the same great course content and learning community along with small group mentorship with Diana Beabout.
The Premium option of the Coach is geared towards would like to go through the Coach learning with a private mentor.
With the Premium option, you get access to all the same great course content and learning community along with private mentorship with Kim Cofino, Eduro’s learning Founder and an author of the microcredential courses.
One of our most popular mini courses (designed to take 3-5 hours to complete) will give you a quick peek at what learning inside the Coach will look like. Plus this course is NOT included in the Coach Microcredential so you’re getting extra content even if you decide to purchase the full Microcredential after!
The format of a great professional learning experience was laid out clearly. The emphasis on participants doing most of the talking and exploring was an important reminder. I will certainly take this back to my sessions.
I would highly recommend taking the coach yearlong micro-credential course to anyone who is interested in coaching, who is currently a coach or transitioning into that period. Or even if you are a classroom teacher like myself, who would like to use coaching strategies with students and colleagues, the way the course is designed allows you to choose your level, making it easier to fit with your current role.
In the Coach, I’m able to learn from other coaches, I’m able to engage material that is relevant for this day and age and also material that is constantly being updated because you are engaging a mentor during this process.
You’ve also got your personal learning network where you can interact with people who are actually coaches already in various schools across the world. So there’s so many avenues of learning that you can, you can, connect with, which creates a pretty awesome opportunity for your own professional development.
It is not too time consuming and because of the practical nature of it, one is able to apply what you learn almost immediately. Every single course so far has left me with something as a takeaway, something that I apply immediately.
I decided to join the coach because I thought that all of the coaching training platforms that I had seen the coach was the most relevant for me as a tech integrationist and a tech coach at my school due to the fact that the mentors and the coach have a tech background, I felt that it was important for me to have coaches who were specific to my field so that they could help address issues that are very specific to technology coaching in schools.
I’ve been delighted to find that in actual fact, the coach is very universal and it is not something that is a hundred percent, tech coach. And so that means that anyone could join and benefit from it and it’s neutral. And the fact that it would work for any type of coach to learn the basic skills of coaching
“I absolutely love what I do to support my coaching colleagues. I’m honored to be the premium package mentor for The Coach Microcredential and I’m looking forward to working side by side with you! ”
One of the things I love most about the program is the personalized mentorship that, I’ve gotten from Kim. It’s been really great to have that one-on-one, touch point of someone who has great insights and experience, but is also a great coach herself. just to walk through, some of my thinking and some of the experiences that I’m having and connecting the coursework to, my actual day to day, reality has been really, really rewarding.
“Having coaching skills, strategies and mindsets benefit us all in providing the best learning environment for our students…and for us as educators. For this reason, I am excited to be the academy package mentor for The Coach Microcredential.”
My mentor Diana has been with me every step of the way, and she has worked with me to create a program that’s meaningful to me. And, that’s, that’s really important. The mentors will work with you to make a program that will meet your needs.
Whatever your job title is
The Coach Microcredential
is Perfect for anyone in, or aspiring to, a coaching role
I think Kim and the creators at Eduro are mindreaders. Somehow they have managed to figure out exactly what I need and when I need it. They have managed to put articles in that are applicable to exactly what I’m dealing with at the time at school, or they provide me the motivation to continue to keep moving whenever I need that motivation the guidance. Not only through Kim, but working with the other members of the micro-credential and hearing their thoughts. It lets me know that I’m not alone in what I’m doing.
I really like how the program can be tailored to fit your needs. And I really see that the biggest priority on Eduro Learning’s end is to maximize what we get out of the course. So if it’s not necessarily relevant at this time where you are well, then let’s change it so that, so that it can work for you. It’s a wonderful program. If I were to give any piece of advice or message to future cohort members, it is to take the course. If you are on the fence, please take it.
The Coach Microcredential program for 2021 officially starts 3 May 2021. (You get access to the program content as soon as you register/purchase.) The official completion date for this cohort is 24 April 2022.
Yes! We always schedule in “suggested break times” as well as “suggested timeframes” for each course within the program. Apart from the official start date and official end date for the cohort, the break schedule is flexible to best suit your needs!
Our flexible “suggested break schedule” for the 2021 cohort is:
Summer Break: 21 June – 15 Aug 2021
Suggested Break: 18 – 24 Oct 2021
Suggested Break: 14 Dec 2021 – 10 Jan 2022
Suggested Break: 21 Feb – 27 Feb 2022
If your school breaks are different to these ones, you are free to change when you take a well-earned break!
Yes we do! The Honor, Academy and Premium options all have a payment plan option.
Plan 1: Payable over 2 months (20% non-refundable initial deposit required) Plan 2: Payable over 3 months (10% non-refundable initial deposit required)
We are flexible and here to help – so if neither plan quite suits, just ask us about an alternative!
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Only the Academy and Premium packages have clock hours and/or continuing education quarter credits (CEC) available at an extra cost – let your mentor know that you are interested in gaining credits and/or clock hours.
Please note: The Honor package does NOT offer the option for clock hours and/or continuing education quarter credits.
The Heritage Institute continuing education quarter credits are awarded through Antioch University Seattle at the 400 and 500 levels. Call 1800/445-1305 or log onto www.hol.edu policies page for more information.
Antioch University Seattle’s Continuing Education Quarter Credits are acceptable in most states for teaching certificate renewal and salary advancement. Prior to registering for a course we recommend you seek approval from your state office of education or school district Human Resources department as many state and district requirements are unique.
The Heritage Institute offers Continuing Education Quarter Credits. Quarter Credits translate into Semester Credits as follows:
1 Quarter Credit = 0.6 semester credits
2 Quarter Credits = 1.33 semester credits
3 Quarter Credits = 2.00 semester credits
4 Quarter Credits = 2.66 semester credits
5 Quarter Credits = 3.33 semester credits
6 Quarter Credits = 4.00 semester credits
Heritage have a limit of 90 Washington State Clock Hours, Oregon (Professional Development Units) PDUs or (Continuing Education Units) CEUs in the Fall, Winter and Spring Quarters and 150 hours for the Summer Quarter.
Antioch University Seattle does not award letter grades. Credits are awarded on a credit/no credit basis with credit awarded at the 400 level equivalent to a grade of “C” or higher, and credit awarded at the 500 level being equivalent to a grade of “B” or higher. This is stated on the back of the Antioch transcript. Continuing Education Quarter Credits are awarded by Antioch University Seattle (AUS). AUS requires 75% or better for credit at the 400 level and 85% or better to issue credit at the 500 level. These criteria refer both to the amount and quality of work submitted.
In order to get the most from your courses, you may take a maximum of 9 Quarter Credits each in the Fall, Winter and Spring Quarters and 15 Quarter Credits for Summer Quarter. There is an annual limit of 25 Quarter Credits per individual during any one-year period.
We are flexible and are here to help.
Contact us to find out more about payment plans, invoices, using school issued PD, organizing payments for more than one person.
We pride ourselves on being flexible and supportive. We offer a suggested timeline for pacing yourself through the content, but we work with you to schedule your goals, deadlines, and breaks throughout the academic year.
Although all of the reflections within The Coach Microcredential take place in our private forums, we will occasionally ask for permission to post a reflection on our public coachbetter website, so you can get a sneak peek at what they’re learning.
Here are a few of our favorites:
Our graduates work in schools around the world, here are a few that we’ve highlighted:
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