Fourth Annual Instructional Coaching Conference
October 12-14, 2009
Eldridge Hotel and Liberty Hall
Lawrence, KS
The details for next year's Instructional Coaching Conference are coming together! Check back often for updates about the conference!
Among those scheduled to present are the following:
- Stephen Barkley author of Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching
- Gary Bloom author of Blended Coaching and Powerful Partnerships
- MC Moran author of Differentiated Literacy Coaching
- Mary Vreeman and Cheryl Jones authors of Instructional Coaches and Classroom Teachers
Additionally, we plan to include a track of presentations called Coaches Sharing with Coaches, where the Pathways to Success coaches will share their experiences using the the Big Four Comprehensive Model for Improving Instruction. Beta versions of all the tools will be given away at the conference; many are already up, and more will be posted in the Tools section of the website as they are created.
Other topics to be covered include Culturally Responsive Instructional Coaching, Research on Instructional Coaching (if you are interested in presenting your research please let me know), Twitterpalooza (where Twitter folks from around the country share ideas and talk about expanding our network of coaches through Twitter) as well as a series of Pecha Kucha presentations given by coaches. Pecha Kucha presentations allow the presenter to use 20 images each shown for 20 seconds. You can learn more about Pecha Kucha here, or see a Daniel Pink Pecha Kucha here. If you'd like to give one of these presentations, please contact me jimknight@mac.com, as the Kansas Coaching Project will waive the conference fees for all presenters.
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. 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.
Registration:
Registration for this event is available using the following forms. MS Word 2007 PDF
For more infomation on hotels and transportation, please access the following pages:
Hotel Information (PDF)
Transportation Information (PDF)
