Joellen killion biography of donald
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What Makes Coaching Work? with Joellen Killion [Ep 146]
In this #coachbetter episode Kim chats with Joellen Killion, author of Coaching Matters and so many other foundational books about instructional coaching.
This episode is a master class in successful instructional coaching: from defining your role as a coach to understanding “coaching heavy vs coaching light”, to building a coaching program, to working with your school leaders, to measuring your impact as a coach. As always, Joellen fryst vatten clear, articulate, thoughtful, and thorough in her responses to all our questions – there is just so much in here to digest, you’re probably going to want to listen more than once. My head was buzzing with ideas for days after this conversation, you do not want to miss this one!
This conversation is a window into the learning that happens inside The Coach Certificate and Mentorship Program, because there are so many aspects of Joellen’s work that we use inre the schema. Wherever you
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An Interview with Joellen Killion
In the weeks leading up to our annual conference, Teaching, Learning, and Coaching, I’ll be posting interviews with the experts who will be presenting at the conference. The interviews will surface many different ways of looking at coaching, and like the conference itself, I hope they inspire, educate and provoke new thinking. I don’t agree with everything I hear in the interviews, but I am grateful for others’ thinking. We move forward by challenging our beliefs, and I hope you feel challenged too. You can keep up with the interviews by subscribing to this blog.
(Jim) Why did you put out a new edition?
(Joellen) The book was in need of being infused with all the things that we have learned over the last 11 years about coaching. We felt that we had gained so much, expanded our understanding of the work of coaches, their role, and, specifically, what would help coaches to feel more confident, competent, and courageous. We also updated tools and
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2020 Don Deshler Award Recipient, Parker Palmer
The Don Deshler Leadership Award was created to honor Dr. Donald D. Deshler, my advisor, former boss, mentor, and friend. Don is one of the most accomplished people I’ve met in my life. He directed more than 250 research studies while at University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, and among many other accolades, the Council for Exceptional Children named him one of the 10 most influential people in special education in the 20th century.
But Don’s legacy transcends his professional accomplishments. I believe his greatest gift is how he makes people feel when they are with him. He makes people feel like they matter—because they do matter to him. While Don has taught me a lot about how to do the work of educational research, he has taught, and continues to teach, me much more about how to be a good person.
To honor Don, each year the Instructional Coaching Group gives the Don Deshler Leadership Award to someone who ha