Cultivating a Coaching Mindset

You don’t have to be a coach to embrace a coaching mindset!

A course & community for all educators who are ready to work better together

Every school community can benefit from the reflective practices that coaching helps create.

Are you working towards...

  • Building more collaborative relationships among colleagues?
  • Helping students engage more thoughtfully in their learning and relationships with each other?
  • Navigating challenging conversations with parents or colleagues?
  • Being more reflective in your practice as an individual or on a team?
  • Developing a strong middle leadership team that builds community?
  • Building a coaching culture with all community stakeholders?

It's time to cultivate a coaching mindset!

Hi! I'm Kim.

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After working as an instructional coach in international schools for 15 years, and then mentoring aspiring, new and growing coaches in The Coach Certificate and Mentorship Program, I know how powerful coaching skills can be – within your role as an educator and beyond.

Concrete coaching skills can help you become a better listener, communicator, and collaborator. Whether or not your school has a formal coaching program, developing a coaching mindset can help you build better relationships – with your colleagues, school leaders, students and parents.

When we work better together, students learn more effectively. Cultivating a coaching mindset can help all educators create a safe space for learning and growth for all stakeholders. After working with so many clients, I know how complicated it is to unpack the concrete coaching skills educators want to understand to feel confident in using them in a professional setting. This course breaks down the key components of quality coaching practices so any educator can implement them right away – including you!

Here's why you need to take Cultivating a Coaching Mindset

Developing a coaching mindset will help you build relationships, be more reflective, have better conversations and build a sense of community and collective efficacy in your school.

Everything we do in schools is built on relationships – but we don’t spend a lot of time learning how to cultivate them

In schools we often experience:

  • Complex conversations on teams around pedagogical approaches, assessment styles, or addressing student concerns.
  • A feeling of stagnation when professional learning isn’t aligned to our personal needs.
  • Challenges with the ways students interact with each other in the classroom.
  • Attempted professional partnerships that stall due to a lack of sustainable processes, frameworks or structures.
  • Interactions that are unproductive due to different communication styles or lack of clarity.
  • A sense of isolation when we don’t have the time or structure for deep conversations with colleagues.

Embracing a coaching mindset, and even teaching coaching strategies to your students, can help us work better together and develop a sense of collective efficacy.

Building a coaching culture goes beyond implementing a coaching program. When teachers, leaders, and support staff cultivate a coaching mindset we’re making coaching a part of the fabric of the school.​

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Why Now?

Now is the time to develop a coaching mindset

Increase connection & decrease conflict in an increasingly polarized world.

Increase Understanding

In our increasingly polarized world, it’s easy to jump to conclusions & dismiss the beliefs, experience or perception of others. Deep listening skills increases understanding and connection.

Reduce Conflict

When we engage in dialogue and discussion with intent to respect and value another’s opinion, we reduce the possibility of developing tension or disagreement.

Build Collective Efficacy & Cohesion

Collective efficacy improves when educators build trust, set shared goals, learn together, and collaborate more. Developing a coaching mindset provides the framework for respectful conversation around teaching and learning.

Improve Student Learning

The number one indicator of student success is collective efficacy (Donohoo, 2017). When we believe in one another, student learning improves. More opportunity to know and understand each other’s work, through coaching conversations, increases our potential to improve student learning.

The 5 Domains of a Coaching Mindset

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A coaching toolkit designed for every educator!

This course is designed for educators who are curious about the habits, mindset and practices of coaching, as a foundation to build a coaching culture.

This course is for all educators...

  • Teachers: use these skills with your teaching colleagues, and your students.
  • Middle Leaders: use these skills to build a cohesive and collaborative team.
  • School Leaders: use these skills with all stakeholders that you interact with.
  • Instructional coaches: use this course as a potential pathway to introducing the value and benefits of coaching to your whole school community!

Cultivate a coaching mindset by understanding the key tools that coaches use to facilitate constructive, reflective and deep conversations. Understanding these concrete skills contained in each of these domains is the key to applying them in your everyday setting – with all community stakeholders.

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What's Inside?

Designed for all educators, this course will teach you the concrete coaching skills you need so you can start having better conversations, today.

Access the Syllabus for ALL the details

Designed for all educators ready to develop concrete coaching skills

Get the Syllabus

Find out what you’ll learn in the course, including:

  • an overview of the course & outcomes
  • each of the key themes & topics included
  • weekly schedule for the global cohort

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By the end of the course, you'll...

Confidently Embrace a Coaching Mindset

Have deeper, more meaningful and productive conversations – with colleagues, leaders, students & parents.

Be Ready to Have a Peer Coaching Conversation

Become a thought partner for your colleagues!

Understand the Impact of a Coaching Mindset

Be the change you wish to see in your school community. Start creating a culture of coaching in your school now.

Clarify the Difference Between a Coaching MIndset & a Coaching Program

Advocate for coaching – in whatever model is just right for your school right now.

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It's not just a course, it's a community!

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How does the community work?

Office Hours

Three (3) 20-min sessions with Kim to get all your questions answered.

These optional sessions are available to discuss anything related to coaching – within the course, and beyond. Sessions are bookable using Calendly – so you can fit these meetings into your schedule whenever works for you! Times display in your time zone to make them easy to book.

Office hours allow you personalize your learning so you always feel supported, and so we can adapt course content to your unique school context

Real Time Community Calls

Learning doesn’t happen in isolation. Connect with other course participants in our global cohort calls. 

Four (4) real time global cohort calls are scheduled during our global cohort. 

Meeting times are determined by the time zones of our participants and scheduled for each global cohort community.

Sessions are designed to support you in building your personal learning network, and discuss your learning with other community members. 

We want you to have the best possible experience in our global cohort. We encourage you to participate in the real-time opportunities that make the most sense for you to make it work for your schedule.

Hear From Our Graduates

I have so much more clarity about the structure - it feels more human less road mapped. I understand how to engage in coaching conversations (framework and communication style).
Aspiring Instructional CoachEARCOS Region
I'm so much more clear on the distinction between coaching, collaborating, mentoring and how they can be quite nuanced. The specifics around what an effective coach is working to achieve. Beginning with a lot more clarity around coaching conversations (and how much practice I need to do them well!).
Instructional CoachEARCOS Region
I have a much clearer picture of the definition, skill set and cycle of a coach
EAL Support SpecialistEARCOS Region
Now I understand the mindset of growth - growth happens when it is invitational and not about compliance to have to engage in the process. I wonder what would happen if we let coaching organically grow rather than growing too fast and forcing it.
Middle School PE TeacherEARCOS Region
Now I have a firm grasp on what coaching is (and isn’t). I also have strategies to try using a coaching model.
Learning Support SpecailistEARCOS Region
Coaching can start small - it is a mindset, that can be set into action with proper planning and admin support
HS Math TeacherEARCOS Region
There’s a direct relationship between having a coaching culture and the feeling of belonging in schools.
School LeaderEARCOS Region
I definitely feel clearer about the difference between mentoring and coaching. Before, I kind of thought they were basically the same — mostly giving advice or sharing what’s worked for me. But now I get that coaching is really more about listening and asking questions to help the other person figure things out for themselves. It feels less about having the answers and more about supporting someone as they find their own way forward.
MS Math TeacherEARCOS Region
I understand the goals of coaching and how to distinguish it from evaluative practices
School LeaderEARCOS Region
I feel much more confident to approach hard conversations
Head of DepartmentEARCOS Region

Course Details & Pricing

Registration: 6 - 15 Feb 2026

Program Runs : 2 Mar - 3 May 2026

Price: $750

Immediate access as soon as you purchase:

  • content focused on concrete coaching skills
  • designed for ALL educators
  • self paced access - all content available immediately
  • personal support with 3 office hours sessions with Kim
  • 4 real-time live global cohort calls
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