Let’s talk coaching! “Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.” In today’s episode Angela and Lisa discuss how professional development has changed for teachers and how coaching has taken on a more crucial role.  You’ll hear some tips for effective professional learning before our interview with Amber Birch-Trujillo, consultant for The Student Centered Coaching Model.

Highlights of this episode:

• Angela and Lisa talk successful professional learning
• How blended learning has improved opportunities for teachers to learn on their own time
• Lisa gets “edunerdy” with John Hattie’s Visible Learning research
• Learn how coaching can support student learning
• Discover why fixing teachers is NEVER the goal
• Get an insight into what it’s like for an “outsider” to work with educators in RCISD
• Meet Cinnabinna with clean hair

To learn more about our guest and her quotable quotes, visit our expanded show notes at bit.ly/rcttep33