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C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionRelational Leadership: Dr. Rachel Edoho-Eket
On this episode of C3, Dr. Rachel Alouek—an award-winning principal, author, and leadership coach—shares her journey from kindergarten teacher to school leader…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionCoaching That Sticks: High-Impact Strategies from Dr. Matthew Rhodes
In this episode Courtney Groskin and Sandy Heiser welcome Dr. Matthew Rhodes to discuss effective instructional coaching in K–12 and higher education. Dr…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionC3 Season Wrap-Up: Coaches Reflection
Hosts Courtney Groskin and Sandy Heiser reflect on C3's first season, discussing favorite guests, key takeaways about coaching practice, reconnecting with…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionJoellen KIllion: From Fixer to Empowerer
In this episode, Courtney Groskin and Sandy Heiser sit down with Joellen Killion to explore job-embedded coaching, the 10 roles coaches play, and how to align…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionDr. Mary Webb: Harnessing Ai to Enhance Coaching
Guest: Mary Webb, veteran educator and instructional coach with 27 years of experience Episode Summary: In this episode, Mary Webb shares her journey from…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionTrust Based Observations with Craig Randall
🎧 Episode Show Notes: Trust Based Observations with Craig Randall In this episode of C3: Connecting Coaches & Cognition, Courtney Groskin and Sandy Heiser sit…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionTori Fitka: School AI Community Coach of the Year 2025
🎙️ C3: Connecting Coaches & Cognition Episode Title: Elevating Coaching & Instruction with AI Host: Courtney Groskin Co-Host: Sandy Heiser Guest: Tori Fitka…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionCoaching for Every Learner: Joy De Los Santos
In this episode of C3, hosts Courtney Groskin and Sandy Heiser welcome Joy De Los Santos, a special education coach with over 20 years of experience who now…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionCrafting Powerful Coaching Questions with Connie Hamilton
In this episode Courtney and Sandy welcome Connie Hamilton, author and consultant, to discuss the power of well-crafted coaching questions. Connie explains how…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionFrom Walkthroughs to Wins with Justin Baeder
Episode Description: In this episode of C3: Connecting Coaches & Cognition, Courtney Groskin sits down with Justin Baeder, founder of The Principal Center and…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionEngagement Is Not a Unicorn—It's a Narwhal: Real Strategies for Real Classrooms
In this episode of the C3 Podcast, we welcome Heather, an educator, administrator, author, and superintendent whose work has reshaped how we think about…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionSmall Steps, Big Shifts: Redefining Coaching with Sherry St. Clair
Episode Notes: -Teacher, H.S. Administrator, worked for the State Department in Kentucky, and a middle and high school expert, and worked nationally with…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionRadical Listening with Christian van Nieuwerburgh
Episode Notes: -Education is what Christian’s journey revolves around. “I am most passionate about education. I want to imagine a time when everyone has access…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionMentoring That Matters: Supporting & Retaining New Teachers: Leslie Ceballos
Episode Notes: -Served in a wealth of roles within education from teaching, coaching, to administration. -Contract work for curriculum companie and Senior…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionStudents at the Center: Kyle Wagner
Episode Notes: -High Tech High- PBL Based Leader -International Educator to move from teacher focused to student focused learning. -Moving from sage on the…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionBuilding Success: Thomas Guskey on Evaluating Professional Learning and Empowering Educators
Episode Notes: -Thomas has had a wealth of experience teaching middle school and high school. Then he went to graduate school at the University of Chicago. He…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionData Rules: Jim Knight and Michael Faggella-Luby
Jim Knight is a founding senior partner of the Instructional Coaching Group (ICG) and a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionBeyond One-Size-Fits-All: Carol Tomlinson
Carol Ann Tomlinson is William Clay Parrish, Jr. Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education and Human Development. Prior to…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionCoaching with Urgency: Building Skills, Trust, and Transformation: Michael Sonbert
Coaching is intentionally building skills, showing and modeling best practices, and intentionally training people to be better. -His work has been in some of…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionArise: Elena Aguilar
There is nothing more powerful that we can do, than knowing our own selves. When we know ourselves, we know how our past affects our present, and forms our…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionCurating Conversations: The Art and Science of Coaching: Dr. Moon
-Coaching is seeing a person who is carrying the weight of life, and finding their way. This model is so respectful. It is about people making progress and…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionCelebrating 40 Years of Cognitive Coaching: Arthur Costa and Robert Garmston
-Art and Bob have worked together for over 40 years at California State University at Sacramento. Cognitive Coaching was born through this relationship. ‘We…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionConnection Over Compliance: Dr. Lori Desautels
-Connections Over Compliance- Our nervous systems are social systems. The educational system consists of us being with other people all the time. COVID created…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionSafe and Civil Schools CHAMPS and STOIC: Tricia Skyles
Tricia McKale Show Notes: -Preparedness meets lucky opportunities - Middle school teacher turned Instructional Collaborator via Jim Knight. -Working with…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionIntentional Coaching for Instructional Growth: Sherry St.Clair
Sherry St. Clair is the founder of Reflective Learning LLC, an educational consulting agency based in Kentucky. Her organization works with schools around the…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionLeading Impact Teams 2.0 with Dr. Paul Bloomberg and Isaac Wells
-Leading Impact Teams: Building a Culture of Efficacy and Agency -New book - we wanted to share more of the explicit ‘how', as well as making sure equity is up…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionPeter Liljedahl: The Thinking Classroom
-Building thinking classrooms- around the notion that students spend time in classrooms not thinking. Many structures are not designed for thinking, and…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionGretchen Bridgers: Empowering Educators with Coaching
Gretchen is a National Board-certified elementary school teacher from Charlotte, NC. In 2006, Gretchen received her bachelor’s degree at Marist College in…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionAdam Geller: AI Coaching
Adam Geller is the founder of Edthena and author of Evidence-Based Practice. He started his career in education as a science teacher in St. Louis, Missouri…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionLearner Agency Living in the Deep
Learner Agency: A Field Guide for Taking Flight is a boots-on-the-ground resource for those who wish to foster greater agency for students and adults alike…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionSuzanne Dailey: Starting the School Year Happier
Suzanne Dailey is an instructional coach in the Central Bucks School District, where she has the honor and joy of working with over 500 elementary teachers and…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionNita Creekmore: Putting Reflection Into Practice
Nita Creekmore is an Instructional Coach who lives just outside Atlanta, GA. In the 19 years, she has been in education, she truly believes that in all aspects…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionKeith Young: The Instructional Coaching Handbook
Keith Young is an education coach, trainer, and writer. Keith was raised in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains of northern Alabama. After a short stint…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionStarr Sackstein: From Teacher to Leader
Starr Sackstein has been an educator for 20 years and is currently a full-time educational consultant, instructional coach, and speaker. Starr received…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionMichelle Harris: The impact of instructional coaching
Michelle Harris, Senior Consultant at Instructional Coaching Group (ICG) has spent almost three decades as an educator, starting as a Special Education…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionLindsay Deacon: The Edu Coach Survival Guide
Episode Notes: -Lindsay comes from a family of educators. Lindsay’s first coach was trained in Jim Knight’s Instructional Coaching and she was asked to replace…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionValentina Gonzalez: Supporting Multilingual Learners
Valentina Gonzalez, the co-author of Reading & Writing with English Learners: A Framework for K-5, is a longtime educator who has served 20+ years in education…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionMatt Renwick: Leveraging Coaching as a Leader
Matt Renwick is an elementary principal in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. Previously he served as an assistant principal, athletic director, coach, and classroom…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionDr. Nathan Lang-Raad: Keeping Coaching at the Core
Dr. Nathan D. Lang-Raad is an educator, speaker, and author. He is the Vice President of Strategy at Savvas Learning. Throughout his career, he has served as a…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionAmanda Brueggeman: Student Centered Mentoring
Episode Notes: -Student Centered Mentoring Book: Keeping Students at the Heart of New Teachers’ Learning -4 Core Beliefs for Success: Empower others to grow…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionElena Aguilar: Elevating Your Professional Development
-The PD Book: 7 Habits that Transform Professional Development by Elena Aguilar and Lori Cohen The PD Book -This book grew organically out of leading PD and…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionMichael Bungay Stanier: How to Begin
Michael Bungay Stanier helps people be a force for change. He’s best known for his book The Coaching Habit which has sold over a million copies and has…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionJennifer Abrams: The Raw Fairy Godmother of Coaching
Formerly a high school English teacher and a new teacher coach in Palo Alto Unified School District (Palo Alto, CA), Jennifer Abrams is currently a…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionRebecca Frazier: The Joy of Coaching
Rebecca Frazier, Ph.D., has centered her professional career around learning and sharing how to become an effective coach in a variety of situations. When…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionKyle Schwartz: We See You...
Kyle Schwartz is in her tenth year of teaching, this year as a reading teacher at Doull Elementary in Denver, Colorado. Her first book, I Wish My Teacher Knew…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionCoaching the Whole Teacher: Becca Silver
Becca Silver is the founder and CEO of The Whole Educator. She is a highly energetic and knowledgeable trainer who approaches leadership development with…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionDear Coaches...
This episode is a compilation of ‘Dear Coach Letters’ for you to enjoy and to help wrap up this year right for all our favorite coaches! Hear from our special…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionCoaching Literacy: Karen Smith
Karen Smith is an Elementary Language Arts Coordinator in St. Vrain Valley School District and is Cognitive Coach trained. Episode Notes: -Model of coaching to…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionLeading Impact Teams: Dr. Paul Bloomberg
Episode Notes: -Formative Assessment Expert started as a Band Director and Musical Performance specialty. -Dr. Shelby Wolf - Children’s Literature -Leading…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionCompassionate Coaching: Kathy Perret and Kenny McKee
Kathy Perret is an instructional coaching consultant and co-author of The Coach Approach to School Leadership (ASCD 2017) and Compassionate Coaching (ASCD…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionTyler Tarver: Lean Into Your Lane and Build Your PLN
Tyler Tarver, Ed.S is the Dean of NLC College. Tyler speaks at conferences across the country on various topics related to teaching, administration…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionReflection: A Pandemic Retrospective
We talk to Dr. Diane Lauer, Dr. Sean Corey, Kelly Addington, Mandy Warren, and Nicholas Meyer to reflect back on the last year of coaching and teaching to hold…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionSherry St. Clair: Strive to See the Strength
Sherry St. Clair is the author of Coaching Redefined and founder of Reflective Learning LLC, an educational consulting agency based in Kentucky. Her…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionMiriam Guerrero Cheuk:Coaching is a Process Not an Event
Miriam Guerrero Cheuk is a certified Life and Leadership Professional Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation and is currently working towards…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionAdam Geller: Deepening your Practice through Video
Adam Geller is the author of "Evidence of Practice: Playbook for Video-Powered Professional Learning" and the founder of Edthena. He started his career in…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionDelia E. Racines, Ph.D: A Coaching Journey:
Delia E. Racines, Ph.D., has over sixteen years of experience teaching, coaching, consulting, and serving as an assistant principal and principal with K-12 and…
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionSelf Care with a Side of Banana Bread
Educators from around the globe share their thoughts around self-care and finding joy.
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionChristian Van Nieuwerburgh: Positive Psychology Meets Coaching
Christian Van Nieuwerburgh talks with us about the importance of coaching and his marriage of positive psychology and coaching.
C3 Connecting, Coaches, CognitionEquity: The work starts within; A conversation with John Krownapple and Sarah Thomas
We talk to John Krownapple and Sarah Thomas about equity.