Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Coaches need coaching too — and access to spaces where coaches can connect is often limited. We're excited to announce a range of opportunities designed to support your growth through connection and reflective practice. These opportunities are rooted in Competency 7 of the Coaching Competency Practice Profile, which emphasizes that:
"Engaging in continuous self-improvement through professional learning and feedback is essential for coaches to bring up-to-date strategies and research to ever-changing systems. Modeling the habits of lifelong learning and professional growth promotes a change in adult practices centered on equitable outcomes."
During the 2025–2026 school year, we will offer a variety of learning experiences including training, networking, resource sharing, and, of course, coaching. Review the offerings and choose what fits your needs best — whether that’s attending one or joining them all.
We hope you’ll take a moment to scan the coaching professional learning landscape and consider how these events could enhance your individualized learning plans. We’re looking forward to connecting with you next year!
Training: Coaching - A Cornerstone for Change
This professional learning experience is grounded in the Wisconsin Coaching Competency Practice Profile and offers coaches a chance to deepen their practice through learning, reflection, and applied skill development. A core thread throughout the sessions is the intentional development and shifting of mindsets and the role of coaches in supporting transformational change across teams and systems.
Coaches will also build their knowledge base, reflect on their own practice, and explore how coaching can be embedded into team and system structures for sustainable impact. Leadership participation is strongly encouraged, particularly during the first session, to strengthen coach-principal collaboration from the start.
This is the third year of offering this updated training, formerly known as the RTI Center Leadership and Coaching series. Each year, the training is delivered in partnership with two CESAs and includes a combination of two in-person sessions and three virtual sessions. For the 2025–26 academic year, the series will be hosted in collaboration with CESA 10 and CESA 1.
CESA 1 Training Registration
CESA 10 Training Registration
Coaching: Community of Coaching
This structured experience supports deeper implementation of Wisconsin’s Coaching Competency Practice Profile through peer coaching. The community is directly aligned to the content covered in the five-part training and is designed to support application within your local context. These 90-minute sessions offer a unique opportunity to partner with other coaches, reflect on your practice, and practice coaching in real time.
Each month focuses on a specific theme:
- October centers on using your personal self assessment data alongside your drafted individual coaching goal to develop a professional growth plan
- December highlights opportunities to collect coaching data to inform your professional practice
- February centers on relationship development, including strategies for trust-building and repair
- March explores the art of coaching conversations and communication
- April focuses on navigating change and addressing resistance
- May highlights knowledge development and reflective practice, inviting celebration of growth and planning for continued learning.
Participants will be invited to engage in optional learning between sessions, with a variety of choices to support their interests and needs. Each session will focus on a distinct topic, so if you're unable to attend one, you are still encouraged and welcome to participate in the others.
Community of Coaching Registration
Networking: Statewide Resource Events
Two foundational sessions anchored in the Coaching Competency Practice Profile will be offered in the fall of the year. This year, for those CESAs that offer a coaching network, these sessions may be incorporated as part of the network, but anyone can feel free to join. Moving forward, content will be covered in the Community of Coaching series.
- On September 23, 2025 (9:00–10:30 AM), we’ll kick off with a Self-Assessment Start-Up session. After completing a pre-session self-assessment and developing a personal coaching goal, participants will choose a breakout aligned to their goal and connect with peers to share strategies and set intentions for the year ahead.
- Then, on January 22, 2025 (9:00–10:30 AM), we’ll dig into Getting Tight on Coaching Cycles. Participants will reflect on their current coaching structures, identify strengths and barriers, and explore tools and resources to support more consistent, impactful coaching cycles.
Statewide Resource Event Registration
We hope you’ll take a moment to scan the coaching professional learning landscape and consider how these events could enhance your individualized learning plans. We’re looking forward to connecting with you next year!