EDUC-515: Coaching for Equity to Support Radical Instructional Change

This course focuses on principles of effective coaching to actualize equitable access for students in PK-12 schools. Candidates will explore an assessment of their personal levels of critical consciousness as this impacts the ability to effectively interact with normalized systems of oppression in teaching and learning. Using the theory of intersectionality, candidates will assess their ability to develop transformational relationships that sustain challenging conversations about racism, ableism, gender exclusion, classism, etc. for the purposes of de-centering dominant practices that marginalize students experience in schools. Additionally, candidates will examine a step-by-step framework for agenda setting as they onboard the coaching relationship. Confidentiality, assessment of progress, and maintaining multiple relationships of accountability with integrity will also be explored. [ 3 credits ]