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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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