Photos and Comments from the January Instructional Coaching Session
"This conference helped me to understand what coaches do and also how they do it. I feel empowered and ready to face the challenges I have waiting for me back home. The people I met were wonderful and will be a resource for the future. The concepts covered will help me professionally and personally."
--Brenda Benedict, Seventh-grade Language Arts Teacher, Michigan
"The coaching institute provided an invaluable opportunity for school administrators to gain a better understanding of the Instructional Coach, enabling us to support this valid approach to student achievement."
--Janet Fisher, Executive Director, Special Services, Rockford, Michigan
"Dynamic, extensive, intensive and energizing. Made me more motivated than ever to use Instructional Coaching skills to improve student learning."
--Kay Younginger, HRD Specialist, FDLERS Crown, Florida
"The Instructional Coaching Institute was a great workshop on the theory of coaching and how to implement that theory into action."
--Jay Gjerstad, Special Education Consultant, Heartland AEA, Iowa
"Working with CRL is always informative, uplifting, and inspirational. The Instructional Coaching Institute addressed so many facets of this exciting staff development concept, answered our immediate questions and concerns, and gave us much to think about in the days ahead."
--Ellen Thompson, Middle School Teacher of At-Risk Readers, Michigan
"This professional development experience was very enlightening. I have grown as a learner, communicator, and person in the past 3 days."
--Sue Woodruff, Independent Professional Developer, Muskegon, Michigan
