Experience a unique curriculum led by national experts that will advance your coaching practice. Distinct content strands address the unique needs of coaches and managers responsible for coaching program outcomes.
Coach Training Strand - Topics:
Community of Practice Strand for Coaches - Topics:
Manager Training Strand - Topics:
This is advanced content designed for experienced coaches.
While coaches may opt to register for only the training strand or the community of practice series, the two strands are designed to support one another, and so the optimal experience would include both.
Program leaders who oversee coaching are encouraged to participate in the management strand. This strand is designed for: supervisors with responsibility for overseeing coaching, coaching program coordinators, directors of professional development, and quality managers. The manager strand content complements the coach strand content and will help build a common vocabulary and understanding across a coaching program.
All sessions will be live, interactive, and broadcast through Zoom. Recordings of training sessions (but not Communities of Practice) will be available within a day of broadcast.
The Coaching Series will be led by three early childhood veterans with deep experience in coaching and program leadership:
Janet Humphryes
Janet led the design for the University of Colorado Denver’s pioneering Early Childhood Coaching Certificate Program in 2010, which has graduated hundreds of students around the country. She has served as a national Head Start Technical Assistance Specialist, Early Childhood Program Director and Educator, and adjunct faculty member—along with her published works, speaking engagements, and founding role in the Colorado Coaching Consortium.
Amy Ogilvie
Amy Ogilvie serves as a Data Coach and Curriculum Lead for Early Intel. She previously served as Division Manager for Children and Family Services for the City of Longmont, Colorado, and served for 18 years as CEO of a community-based Head Start program. A key focus of Amy's work is strengthening coaching systems and the use of data to evaluate coaching effectiveness. She supports organizations in connecting instructional coaching to teacher development, classroom quality, and broader program improvement goals.
Early Intel’s Coaching Hub is grounded in eight years of data and quality improvement work for early childhood programs around the country.
While introductory coach training is widely available to early childhood providers, Coaching Hub was created to advance and sustain coach practices. Early Intel’s expertise with data analytics and management consulting enables coaching practice at a higher level.
Coaching Hub supports program leaders in building strong systems, clear goals, intentional models that respond to program needs, and meaningful data that can measure impact.
We believe that coaching teachers and caregivers is the key to realizing the full potential of early childhood provider organizations.
Data-Informed Coaching: Turning Insights into Meaningful Progress
Today's coaches have access to more data than ever before, yet may struggle to transform data into meaningful coaching decisions. Participants will learn how to integrate CLASS observations, curriculum implementation, child assessment, teacher self-assessments, coaching documentation, and program priorities into strategic coaching plans that maximize teacher growth.
Beyond Teacher Improvement: Coaching for Program Improvement
(Joint session with managers)
This concluding session will help coaches and leaders aggregate coaching information to identify program-wide trends, inform professional development priorities, support continuous quality improvement, and align coaching with school readiness goals, strategic planning, and organizational improvement efforts.
From Strengths and Needs to Shared Coaching Goals
Explore how coaches can use strengths-and-needs assessment information to develop meaningful, collaborative coaching goals. Learners will examine how to recognize existing strengths, honor educator voice, prioritize areas of interest and growth, and translate shared goals into achievable actions.
When Coaching Takes an Unexpected Turn: Learning Through Inquiry
Share a coaching experience that took an unexpected turn and discover new possibilities together. In a supportive, conversational space, participants will ask open-ended questions, notice what is already working, and consider what additional information might help, generating possible next steps while staying curious about the educator's experience and context.
What Is Our Coaching Data Telling Us?
Build on your own experience with data and explore how different measures can provide meaningful insights into coaching effectiveness. Using examples from your program, participants will share strategies for examining goal attainment, changes in educator practice, implementation fidelity, CLASS results, and other outcomes. Through collaborative discussion, coaches will identify opportunities to strengthen data use to recognize progress, celebrate successes, and demonstrate the impact of coaching.
Coaching Innovation Lab: Testing Ideas, Learning, and Improving
How might we recognize the difference coaching makes? Using examples from their programs, learners will be invited to explore what different measures can tell them about the complete story of their coaching progress and impact. Together, they will consider what each form of evidence reveals and where its limits lie.
Designing Coaching Systems that Work
Effective coaching depends on organizational systems—not individual effort alone. Participants will learn how to build a coordinated coaching infrastructure that includes coach roles, coaching eligibility, caseload management, documentation systems, communication structures, supervision, strengths and needs assessments. Leaders will leave with a framework for creating sustainable coaching systems that support consistency across a program.
Why register?
Join your colleague now, and commit to a stronger program for 2027.
Training Strand for Coaches
$820 per coach
Community of Practice
$650 per coach
Training Strand for Managers
$820 per manager
Combo: Coach Training Strand and Community of Practice
$1400 per coach (combo discount)
Full Organization Subscription
$7,500 for all coaches and related managersWe'll follow up with full organization subscriptions to obtain contact info for all participating coaches and managers.
