As Emma Mitchell, Director of the IB at Whitgift School, conducted here doctorate research, she asked herself how she could get answers to her research questions and benefit her students at the same time? As it so often does, coaching held the answer.

As schools close around the world, we know that many teachers have swapped your in-person classrooms for a virtual one. We’ve brought together some of our favourite tips and tricks for creating a supportive and engaging learning environment—even remotely.

As James Piggott, Deputy Director of Learning and Innovation at Whitgift School, prepares to facilitate his first coaching course for his colleagues, he takes us through his thinking around one big question—how can he convince his colleagues of the value of incorporating coaching into education?

The phrase ‘follow the child’ is one that defines the Montessori Method of Education. It also provides a strong ideological link between Montessori and the art of coaching children.

As a coach, your goal during a coaching conversation is not to perfectly wrap and deliver a gift. Instead, your aim is to help your coachee plant and water seeds of knowledge and insight. So, when you think about the context of self-coaching, what could Planting Seeds look like?

This past summer, Jane Czarny, veteran educator and life-long learner, took our Foundational Coaching Course. Here, she discusses her experience exploring coaching as a teacher, and as she took the course with her two children, as a parent as well.