by John Norton | May 3, 2012 | Change, Connected Coaching, Expert Voices, Getting to know us, Learning, Powerful Learning Practice
My friend and collaborator Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach is eminently interviewable. Whether she’s talking about passion-based teaching and learning, the secrets of successful online communities of practice, or her ideas about integrating new technologies and social media into everyday teacher and student life, her transformative vision comes through and what she has to say always has valuable take-aways for listeners.
by Lani Ritter Hall | Apr 4, 2012 | Connected Coaching
Sarah Blattner is a Powerful Learning Practice Connected Coach who recently completed the Connected Coaching eCourse. She dove in feet first and found the more she learned, the more she wanted to learn. The more she learned, the more she realized what she didn’t know or had not mastered, and the how her journey will be lifelong.
by Powerful Learning Practice | Jan 11, 2012 | Connected Coaching, PD, Powerful Learning Practice
Connected coaches are skilled networkers and community builders, working in online spaces, who have a passion for appreciative inquiry and a strength based approach to improvement. Connected coaching takes advantage of new forms of collaboration; enables the building of deep and meaningful relationships through video, audio and images; encourages innovation through the possibilities that arise in diverse collaborations, and allows participants to enjoy sessions from the comforts of home.
by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach | Oct 11, 2011 | Connected Coaching, Powerful Learning Practice
Read the article “Connected Coaches in Connected Spaces,” which Lani Ritter-Hall and I submitted for this month’s Educational Leadership theme issue, “Coaching: the New Leadership Skill.” All in all, it’s a great EL edition — a power-packed resource that addresses most any traditional coaching context you might imagine. Which may explain why our piece was returned with a gracious “no thanks.” It’s a little edgy, we acknowledge, but it’s based on solid scholarship and countless hours we’ve spent learning and leading in virtual professional communities.
by Lani Ritter Hall | Oct 4, 2011 | Connected Coaching, Connected Leadership, Making The Shift, Voices
While I was washing the pot in which my spaghetti sauce simmered to take on all its goodness, similarities to our Powerful Learning Practice Connected Coaching pilot struck me. That experience was downright extraordinary too. And the ingredients were topnotch.
by Lani Ritter Hall | Jul 13, 2011 | Connected Coaching
“The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.” –John Schaar So it is with Connected Coaching. Our grand...