Lastinger Learning Webinars:
Early Learning Coaching Professional Learning
This technical assistance series is designed to help current early learning coaches enhance their coaching abilities with actionable strategies and resources.
Meet the Presenters
The Lastinger Center Early Learning Team features experience in education and education research.
Liza Leonard
Early Learning Implementation, Coordinator
Ana Valdes
Early Learning Implementation, Specialist
Previous Sessions
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Coaching Towards Agency: Navigating Spheres of Influence to Empower Educators and Transform Practice
April 15 | 2:00 – 3:00 EST
During this session participants will:
- Explore strategies to support coachees in building agency and engaging in reflective, intentional practice.
- Gain practical tools to help coachees identify and act within their sphere of influence.
- Learn and apply the three key strategies of coaching towards agency – naming, reframing and deconstructing beliefs – in coaching conversations.
From Standards to Success: Leveraging Evidence-Based Practices
May 13 | 2:00 – 3:00 EST
By the end of this webinar, participants will be introduced to:
- Approaches for utilizing the Florida Early Learning and Developmental Standards to support coachees in identifying a meaningful focus for coaching.
- Strategies for incorporating evidence-based practices into coaching conversations to enhance instructional quality and teacher effectiveness.
- Methods for leveraging the Standards to guide coaching toward practices that foster improved child outcomes and high-quality classroom experiences.
Coaching Survival Phrases: Questions for Engagement and Impact
June 3 | 2:00 – 3:00 EST
In this one-hour professional learning session, participants will discover five powerful coaching phrases that enhance engagement and drive meaningful coaching conversations forward. They will develop the skills and confidence to use these phrases effectively in coaching interactions, fostering deeper reflection and professional growth. Participants will explore how these phrases can support coachees in gaining insights into their teaching practice.
- Discover five powerful coaching phrases that drive meaningful coaching conversations forward.
- Develop the skills and confidence to use these phrases effectively in coaching interactions.
- Explore how these phrases can deepen a coachee’s thinking and support their growth as reflective practitioners.
Office Hours
Coaching Corner office hours is a virtual meeting opportunity to engage deeper with the professional learning material, ask questions, and collaboratively problem solve.
Schedule:
April 18 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
April 29 & April 30 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
May 20 & 22 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
June 17 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
June 25 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
Contact Ana Valdes at am.valdes@coe.ufl.edu, for the Zoom link.
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