The BayCES Coaching for Educational Equity (CFEE) Institute is a professional coaching skills training program for educators interested in learning a coaching approach to addressing educational inequities in their schools and districts. Coaching for Educational Equity focuses on building the leadership skills and will necessary to create and sustain equitable schools.

August 6-8, 2008 8:00am - 4:00pm
Downtown Oakland, CA
Payment and Registration

Who should attend:
• Principals
• Teacher Leaders
• Central Office Administrators
• Instructional and Operational Coaches
• Support Providers or Coaching Organizations

Why Coach For Educational Equity?

Principals and Teacher Leaders: Build your instructional leadership. Develop a clear theory of action for addressing inequity in your school. Learn how to provide constructive feedback to your staff to improve teaching and learning in your school. Improve the leadership capacity of your teacher teams, and your ability to lead equity centered professional learning communities.

District Leaders and Administrators: Gain critical skills to effectively lead for educational equity, facilitate meetings well, and provide critical feedback to your staff. Increase trust and collaboration across roles in your district. Learn how to integrate Coaching for Educational Equity into your district.

Instructional and Operational Coaches: Learn how to structure and manage the coaching sessions you facilitate and how to analyze your own coaching performance. Practice the essential skills, techniques and processes used by professional coaches.

Support Providers or Coaching Organizations: Develop key coaching for equity skills to lead your own organization and build the capacity of those you coach. Access coaching tools and protocols that can be immediately applied in your coaching contexts.

At the Institute you will:
• Explore coaching stances, beliefs, and critical questions: What stances do you hold as you do your work? How do your beliefs influence in your coaching practice?
• Learn how to do a thorough assessment and develop an equity-focused Theory of Action.
• Practice real-time coaching interventions focused on skill development and practice.
• Engage in key coaching interventions in one-on-one and group coaching sessions, receive corrective feedback from highly experienced BayCES Coaches.
• Learn the key methodologies that Coaches For Educational Equity employ to organize their work.

The Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools (BayCES) CFEE curriculum draws on a wide range of research in school reform, leadership studies, organizational change, critical race theory, emotional intelligence, and more, including the research and practice of Garmston and Costa's Cognitive Coaching work and John Heron's Helping the Client and The Complete Facilitator's Handbook. It is also informed by twelve years of experience working with over fifty schools and districts to dramatically improve school climate, staff relations and cultural competence, and student achievement.

Cost: $1,000 per participant, group rate may apply. Cost includes:
• Training by highly experienced BayCES Directors and Coaches
• Binder of materials including coaching tools, templates, and articles
• Breakfast, lunch and snacks each day
• One-on-one attention and small group sessions

Payment and Registration
To register online and pay, please click here. For paper registration, please download this form and mail with payment to Sara Brown, BayCES, 1720 Broadway 4th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, or fax to 510-208-1979.

Directions and Accommodations
Click here to download complete directions and information regarding hotel accommodations (not included in registration fee).

Past CFEE Participants say:

"This program has made me a better classroom teacher, as well as a better leader."

"I feel empowered to address and attack the problems that I see at my school. For the first time, I have been provided with a tool that can support me while I support others."

"I am extremely impressed with the quality of presentations, resources, facilitation - I am walking away with some very concrete skills and a greater capacity for thinking, asking questions, and reflecting."

"I wish I had been exposed to BayCES sooner and that more districts would make use of your services. I've been a high school teacher for eight years, and I'm positive that if I had been coached by someone who followed your model, I could have been a much better, much more confident teacher."

Questions?
Please contact Sara Brown at sara (at) bayces.org or call 510-208-0160 x3.