“The coaching program is very well designed and I have certainly learned and grown tremendously throughout this experience… Thanks again to all for an amazing experience.” – Mark Carbone
The use of coaches to assist educators in becoming more accomplished and subsequently improving student achievement occurs frequently in face to face settings. To meet the needs of today’s connected educators, coaching should also move into online spaces. The
Connected Coaching eCourse will prepare you to coach in online spaces, to leverage the affordances of technology for coaching. Through this 11-week eCourse you will explore:
- Foundations for and elements of the Connected Coaching model
- An appreciative inquiry strength based approach to coaching
- Protocols and activities for use by connected coaches
- Ways to leverage web 2.0 tools for coaching in an online environments
- Basic tenets of problem based learning, action research and TPACK
Why Should You Become a Connected Coach?
Read PLP’s interview with Lani Ritter Hall about this eCourse.
Graduate Credit Available
After the course begins, three graduate credits may be obtained through North Dakota State University for an additional fee of $225.
Get complete details here.
“I’ve learned so much that I have no ability to define or catalog it yet. I would say that my biggest takeaway is that I’m learning to be a better questioner than I was when I arrived. I think I’ve learned loads and loads about what it means to be a community… In some small measure, I’m coming to grips with the notion of being a community builder through the lens of strength-based coaching. I am convinced I’ll probably spend most of the rest of my life working on doing that better and better.” – Marsha Ratzel
The
Connected Coaching eCourse lasts eleven weeks. Each week features:
- A 90-minute, live, interactive webinar. The sessions are lead by PLP community leader Lani Ritter Hall.
- A Powerful Learning Practice facilitator to provide tech support and foster discussion and learning during the webinar
- Your participation in a virtual community will facilitate discussions, promote collaboration, and deepen understanding.
- Readings, tutorials, and practical examples that supplement the live discussion for the week
- An archived recording of the session
This eCourse lasts eleven weeks. Dates:
Time and Day
- Synchronous 1.5 hour Webinars – Wednesday evenings at 7-8:30pm EDT
- On-going interaction throughout the eleven weeks in the virtual learning community
Specific topics to be covered in the webinars include:
Week 1 Introductions to Trustbuilding and Coaching
Week 2 Connected Coaching — the Model
- Appreciative inquiry
- The Connected Coaching model
- Wayfinding
Week 3 Connected Coaching — Components
- Dispositions
- Standards
- Group development
Week 4 Coaching Contexts
- TPACK
- Problem based learning
- Action research
Week 5 Building Trust Online
- Examining climate and culture
- Establishing rapport
- Protocols and activities for building trust
Week 6 MIDPOINT BREAK
Week 7 Coaching Essentials
- Doing active listening
- Paraphrasing/mindfulness
- Asking powerful/appreciative questions
Week 8 Inquiring
- Seeking stories/wonderings
- Aspirations
- Possibilities
- Discovering strengths
- Brainstorming
- Reflection
Week 9 Applying what we’ve learned
- Case studies, role playing
- Protocols/Activities building trust
- Protocols/Activities inquiring
- Assessment creation for the coaching toolkit
Week 10 Facilitating Design Thinking
- Designing experiments
- Connected Coaching toolkit
- Protocols/Activities
- Applying what we’ve learned
Week 11 Reflecting, Assessing
- Peer/Self assessment
- Peer assessment of toolkit
- Reflection
“It’s the opportunity to both be led through in a practical manner different approaches to coaching and then get the chance to practice and get feedback which is the greatest strength of the model.” - John Pearce
The eleven-week
Connected Coaching eCourse is
$250 for PLPeeps (alumni who have been through the year-long community experience) and available to the public for
$375.
Register for this eCourse District pricing available.
Contact us for details.
Lani Ritter Hall is Community Leader for Powerful Learning Practice. She also serves as the “Newbie Maven”, helping along and nurturing newbies to the PLP experience, as well as facilitator for the Connected Coaches. Lani brings more than 35 years of teaching experiences in urban, sub urban, and independent schools at the middle/secondary level in the U.S and Canada to this work. A national board certified teacher, she and her students began collaborating globally in the late 1980’s. Lani has created and facilitated professional development around technology infusion into learning for over twenty years and served in a leadership role for the K12Online Conference for 2 years. She is co-author of
The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age
and she blogs at
Possibilities Abound.
“It was fascinating and exciting to learn this way. It is rare for me as a teacher to get to practice a technique before implementing it. It is rare to get on-going feedback from my colleagues or leaders. I think that I really grew my coaching abilities and can apply these skills to other areas of my profession.” - Zoe Branigan-Pipe
Lani Ritter Hall is Community Leader for Powerful Learning Practice. She also serves as the “Newbie Maven”, helping along and nurturing newbies to the PLP experience, as well as facilitator for the Connected Coaches. Lani brings more than 35 years of teaching experiences in urban, sub urban, and independent schools at the middle/secondary level in the U.S and Canada to this work. A national board certified teacher, she and her students began collaborating globally in the late 1980’s. Lani has created and facilitated professional development around technology infusion into learning for over twenty years and served in a leadership role for the K12Online Conference for 2 years. She is co-author of The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age
