Cognitive Coaching®

Research indicates that teaching is a complex intellectual activity and that teachers who think at higher levels produce students who are higher achieving, more cooperative, and better problem solvers. It is the invisible skills of teaching, the thinking processes that underlie instructional decisions, which produce superior instruction. Cognitive Coaching® is a research-based model that capitalizes upon and enhances teachers’ cognitive processes.

In the eight-day Seminars, participants learn how to:
* Develop trust and rapport
* Develop an identity as a mediator of thinking
* Utilize conversation structures for planning, reflecting and problem resolving
* Develop teachers’ autonomy and sense of community
* Develop higher levels of efficacy, consciousness, craftsmanship, flexibility and interdependence
* Apply four support functions: coaching, evaluating, consulting, collaborating
* Utilize the coaching tools of pausing, paraphrasing, and posing questions
* Distinguish among the five forms of feedback
* Use data to mediate thinking

Cognitive Coaching® FALL 2025/26 COHORT

The Principal Partnership Project (P3) Team is excited to announce that 20 school leaders will be selected to attend Cognitive Coaching training on FULL SCHOLARSHIPS during the fall of the 2025-26 school year. Scholarship recipients will be selected through a competitive application process. Cognitive Coaching is an eight (8) day, game changing professional learning opportunity for school leaders.
* Scholarship recipients must commit to attending all eight (8) days of the training with a signed superintendent approval.
* The dates for the training are:
Days 1 and 2: Sept 5 and 8
Days 3 and 4: Sept 18 and 19
Days 5 and 6: Oct 23 and 24
Days 7 and 8: Dec 11 and 12

All eight days of training will be held at the Kentucky Department of Education (300 Sower Building, Frankfort, KY)

Click Here To Apply for the Cognitive Coaching® 2025-26 Cohort