Cognitive Coaching Days 1-4 Fall 2025

Course Description

• 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.
• Lead Learners (Facilitators): Kristie Krier | Kristin Drury
• Credit(s) and Type: 21 Hours Relicensure

Target Audience

• Admin/Pro-Tech, Certified Staff, Classified Staff
• Open to Substitute Teachers =  Not at this time
• Open to Student Teachers = Not at this time 
• Open to Charter School Staff = Yes 
  • Charter Certified or Classified Staff

Meeting Information

• Dates: September 12th, October 3rd, and October 10th, 2025
• Time: 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM
• Location: DCSD Legacy Campus | 10035 S Peoria St, Lone Tree, 80134Links to an external site.

Course Outcomes

Here are the outcomes for the course:

• 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