3rd Annual Coaching Conference

Third Annual Instructional Coaching Conference: Perspectives on Coaching
October 13- 15, 2007

This year’s Instructional Coaching Conference will be a three-day event celebrating Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives a new book I'm lucky enough to edit and which will be released at the conference. Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives contains chapters written by a veritable “who’s who” of leaders in the fields of coaching research and study providing their perspectives on what coaching is and what it can be. Almost all of the authors of Perspectives on Coaching plan to present at this year’s conference.

Among those scheduled to present are the following:

Cathy Toll on Literacy Coaching
Carolee Hayes on Cognitive Coaching
Joellen Killion on the roles of coaches
Lucy West , Content Coaching
Randy Sprick, Wendy Reinke, and Jim Knight, Coaching Classroom Management
Jane Kise, Differentiated Coaching
Karla Reiss, Leadership Coaching
Jim Knight, Instructional Coaching
Jake Cornett and Jim Knight, Research on Coaching

In addition to presentations by all the authors, this year’s conference will feature many of the learning experiences we have offered in the past, including Open Space Dialogues, Lightning Round (6 minute presentations by practitioners with cool new ideas), panel discussions, and other opportunities for sharing and learning.

Also, as has taken place in the past, this year’s conference will be held at Liberty Hall and the historical Eldridge Hotel in downtown Lawrence. If you are interested in staying at the Eldridge, we strongly advise that you make your reservations soon.

The fee for the conference is $450.00 per participant, and each participant will receive a copy of Perspectives on Coaching. All profit generated from the conference supports ongoing research on coaching completed through the Kansas Coaching Project at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning.

All in all, we are very excited about this year’s conference, and we hope to see you in October. If you have any questions regarding the conference, please feel free to contact Carol Hatton at chatton@ku.edu.

By the way, you can find video clips from last year's conference on the www.instructionalcoach.org website.

Cathy Toll's Literacy Workshop

Some of you may be interested in Cathy Toll's upcoming intensive workshop for Literacy Coaches. Cathy sent me the following information about her session:

I'm pleased to announce the 4th Annual Summer Intensive on Literacy Coaching, which will be held in Indianapolis in June 2008.

This year, the Summer Intensive has two parts. The Introduction to Literacy Coaching session will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, June 23, through Wednesday, June 25. The session for Experienced Literacy Coaching will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, June 9, through Wednesday, June 11.

All sessions will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn in the lively center of Indianapolis, just off the Circle and in the heart of shopping, dining, museums, and entertainment venues. Those who attended the Summer Intensive in Indianapolis last summer were delighted to find the many experiences that Indianapolis has to offer these days. The Hilton Garden Inn has reserved a block of rooms at a special rate for attendees.

As always, I will facilitate the sessions, and the price of attendance will include continental breakfast, lunch, and all materials. The sessions will be lively and interactive, with plenty of time to ask about your particular interests or concerns.

Please see the flyer at www.tollandassociates.com for all of the details; look for the link under "workshops." (Note: The flyer is in PDF format, so Mac users may want to download it before opening.) Please share this information with colleagues who may be interested.

I hope to see you at one of the sessions of the Summer Intensive!