Cognitive Coaching

Foundation Seminar Days 1-4

⚙️ Highly Effective Teaching & Leading 🪑 Seated 💲 Paid

  • Dates:

    • July 15, 2025

    • July 16, 2025

    • October 2, 2025

    • February 5, 2026

  • Time: 9-3:30 PM each day

  • Location: Jackson Civic Center, 381 E. Deerwood Dr, Jackson MO 63755

  • Lunch: Provided each day

Registration
The registration fee includes: the first 4 days of the 8 day seminar, lunch each day, and a Learning Guide

  • GOCSD Members: $440

  • Nonmembers: $550

  • Payment Options: When paying by credit card a 3.5% processing fee will be added. Members can request that an invoice be sent, now or in July. Substitutions are encouraged, as refunds will not be provided.

  • Intended Audience: Instructional Coaches and Administrators at any level, and University Professors.

  • Registration closes on June 30, 2025 or when 60 attendees have registered.

Registration

This Seminar includes 8 days. Attendees need to participate in all 8 sessions. This registration is for the first 4 days of the seminar which will take place during the 2025-2056 school year. The remaining 4 days of the seminar will take place during the 2026-2027 school year. After the Day 4 session, an invitation to register for Days 5-8 will be sent to those who completed Days 1-4. The registration fee for Days 5-8 will be the same as Days 1-4- $440 for GOCSD Members and $550 for Nonmembers.

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Description

As leaders in education, you have a unique opportunity and responsibility to support teacher growth toward self-direction and high performance. We invite you to join GOCSD’s offering of what we believe to be one of the most powerful coaching models, Cognitive Coaching.

The goal of Cognitive Coaching Seminars is to develop one’s identity and capacity as a mediator of thinking. 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.

Facilitator

Kathy Gross

Kathy Gross
Thinking Collaborative Training Associate
Engrossed in Service, LLC

Kathy Gross serves as a consultant for Learning Forward, is a Training Associate of Cognitive Coaching® and owns Engrossed in Service, LLC. Throughout her career, her work has focused on empowering teachers and leaders. During her 28 years of service in Springfield (MO) Public Schools, she served as Director of Professional Learning, Coordinator of Teacher and Leader Development, coach to teachers new to the career, Principal and Assistant Principal, and teacher. For eighteen months of her retirement, she enjoyed directing professional learning for GOCSD. She serves on the Board of Directors for Kagan Charitable Foundation and Victorious Educators Ministry. Some of Kathy’s favorite categories of work are Cognitive Coaching®, Kagan Cooperative Learning, Whole Faculty Study Groups, collective efficacy, induction, and mentoring, all of which are part of intentional and effective professional learning for educators. When Kathy isn’t serving educators, you’ll find her enjoying family and friends or escaping to a beach.

Registration

This Seminar includes 8 days. Attendees need to participate in all 8 sessions. This registration is for the first 4 days of the seminar which will take place during the 2025-2056 school year. The remaining 4 days of the seminar will take place during the 2026-2027 school year.. After the Day 4 session, an invitation to register for Days 5-8 will be sent to those who completed Days 1-4. The registration fee for Days 5-8 will be the same as Days 1-4- $440 for GOCSD Members and $550 Nonmembers.

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GOLearn Professional Learning Framework

GOLearn

Our GOLearn PL Framework provides an overview of the learning experiences we offer. This systems approach supports continuous improvement and allows members to identify the offerings that meet their needs, providing a personalized experience. It includes three strands: Systems Thinking, Safe and Collaborative Culture, and Highly Effective Teaching and Leading.

We use the Learning Forward Standards for Professional Learning when designing our experiences to ensure that we provide professional learning that leads to high-quality leading, teaching, and learning for students and educators.

Review our GOLearn Framework to identify sessions that meet your needs, see what sessions are currently open for registration on our PL Events webpage, and access the content in our on-demand catalog to start learning now.

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