Professional learning
Registration
Please contact us at osulc@osu.edu with any questions about registering for professional learning.
We work with districts, schools and literacy teams to create customized learning pathways. We can offer you professional learning structured around coaching, mentorship, leadership, reading workshop, writing workshop, interactive read-aloud and more at special group rates. Contact Jamie Lipp at lipp.15@osu.edu to discuss professional learning to meet the specific needs of your teachers, administrators, and schools.
Art of Coaching Institute
Hybrid | $2,950
Four live sessions, and eight asynchronous modules. See below for schedule. Register by July 18th.
If you've ever had the desire (or been asked by your administrator) to help your fellow educators increase their capacity to meet the diverse needs of their students and wondered, "How do I do that?" this training is for you!
The Art of Coaching Institute is a hybrid course comprised of 8 asynchronous learning modules that you can complete based on your schedule and 4 live synchronous learning sessions where participants come together to practice and develop their coaching skills in a safe space guided by the instructor.
This course will prepare you to use coaching as a professional learning strategy to deepen educators’ powers of reflection about their current instructional practices and develop decision-making skills that make their teaching more responsive to the needs of their students.
The course is created and led by a fellow educator with over 20 years of experience training coaches. The live sessions use a hands-on, collaborative approach. There will be small coaching assignments between the live sessions that require participants to engage with a colleague at their school to build or refine their coaching practice.
Schedule
- Module 1 and Module 2: Work independently August 1st through September 10th.
- Live Online Session: September 11th, 9:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m. EDT.
- Module 3 and Module 4: Work independently September 12th through October 8th
- Live Online Session: October 9th, 9:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m. EDT.
- Module 5 and Module 6: Work independently October 10th through November 12th
- Live Online Session: November 13th 9:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m. EST.
- Module 7 and Module 8: Work independently November 14th through December 17th.
- Live Online Session: December 18th 9:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m. EDT.
Required text
- Elena Aguilar (2024) Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching
Voices

Art of Coaching: Inspiration and motivation
"What makes Art of Coaching Institute unique is the time we focus on attendees getting to know themselves and their learning community. We do this through guiding teachers in building awareness of their behaviors, beliefs and ways of being – this is what leads to transformational coaching." — Sherry Kinzel.
Read our news story about how Art of Coaching Institute impacted a recent group of attendees.

Leveled Literacy Intervention
"Our longstanding investment and the work we have done with Literacy Collaborative has been relevant and impactful to the growth in our district" — Greg Figenser.
Sweetwater School District #2 in Green River, Wyoming, turned to LLI to reverse a decade-long slide in reading and writing achievement. Read about their LLI journey.

Bringing literacy to life
"I think the best way to refine my practice is by working with teachers to serve children in classrooms. Formulating questions with teachers and taking an inquiry stance positions us as learners and researchers. We don’t have all the answers and we are in this together! It’s this type of model that keeps us focused on our craft and I believe will help teachers be more resilient by uncovering new paths to take." — Ganell Tremont.
Read our news story about Ganell R. Tremont's journey as a literacy coach.