If you’re an administrator, coach, or teacher leader, you likely spend just as much time working with teams as you do individuals. Join us for a highly practical weekend workshop as we explore strategies to help harness the collaborative power of teams and take on the challenges of working with diverse groups of adults. 

Key protocols for literacy work (norming writing, unpacking units, analyzing student work, discussing data, make and take, mini workshops, and professional book clubs). Managing group dynamics and tricky teams. Tips & practices to help teams make decisions and have strong conversations. Ways to bring the best of team leadership into virtual settings.

What Every Learning Leader Should Know When Coaching Teams course offers 12 comprehensive on-demand sessions. Plus access to a Padlet with rich resources and research additional support or study.

Course curriculum

    1. Padlet

    1. Course Facilitators

    1. Enduring Themes: The Foundation of Effective Teams

    1. Building Participation: Some Tips for Finding Balance

    1. Protocols: The What, the Why, and the How

    1. Student Data: What Protocol Might We Use?

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  • $299.00
  • 15 lessons
  • 2 hours of video content

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Course Facilitators

Colleen Ackford

Colleen Ackford has worked as an IB classroom teacher, curriculum developer, reading specialist, literacy intervention teacher, and literacy coach in Canada, Japan, Thailand, Australia, and Chile. Colleen has extensive experience working alongside teachers to establish reading and writing workshops in which learners take ownership of their reading and writing lives, express curiosity, and grow their thinking with peers. Colleen has guided teaching teams with developing standards-aligned units of study, progressions of learning, transdiciplinary units, and assessments. She is passionate about both cognitive coaching and student-centered coaching, and has substantial experience with building and developing a coaching program and supporting individual coaches as they grow their practice. Colleen is based in Singapore.

Cailin Minor

Cailin Minor is an internationally experienced educator, literacy coach, and curriculum specialist. She has worked extensively with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Units of Study curriculum as well as teaching reading and writing through the workshop model. Cailin is passionate about instructional coaching, and holds an advanced certificate in Cognitive Coaching. She currently serves as a senior strategist for Erin Kent Consulting where she specializes in supporting schools in creating a"Next Generation" Readers/Writers Workshop model that supports current research and a school’s unique needs. Cailin works with schools to create a tailored literacy vision and model that supports the specific ELL and cultural needs of a student population, the host country's language, and the time and structures of the school. Cailin also works with schools to create a dynamic coaching program and collaborative practices that foster the literacy growth and goals.