School Improvement Coaching for Change
Coaching for Change
2025 School Coaching Conference
Conference Information
Key Conference Information
| Date | May 6-7. 2025 |
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia, The Westin Buckhead Atlanta |
| Cost | $430 |
| Registration | Sign up on our registration website. |
Submit a Proposal to Present at the Conference
The proposal submission system for the 2025 Coaching for Change Conference is now open. Check out our proposal guide to create a proposal that is more likely to be accepted.
Submit your proposal between now and February 28, 2025.
What Is the Coaching for Change Conference?
The demand for school leadership and instructional coaches in schools, districts and states has never been higher, but until now, professional development for these educational MVPs has been hard to find.
That’s why the Southern Regional Education Board launched the nation’s only professional learning event designed exclusively for coaches like you, no matter what grade level, content area or improvement need you serve.
Get in the Game
Join us in May for two days of game-changing keynote presentations, breakout sessions and networking. Share your experiences and gain powerful strategies for enhancing the impact of your coaching.
Effective Coaching
Effective coaching requires the planning and implementation of both offensive moves and defensive moves. Each planned activity (play) has a specific purpose – a goal to accomplish. How closely the actual results align with the intended results depends on multiple factors.
The most effective coaches create and implement plays in which each player (teacher or leader) can help build a culture of improvement. At this conference, we will provide learning opportunities for coaches to help them develop a culture of improvement by:
- Building Strong Teams: To build a strong cohesive team, effective coaches build on players’ individual strengths to eliminate isolation and develop a collaborative approach to improvement.
- Planning for Success: Effective coaches analyze the needs of the team and individual players and work with leaders to build a plan to achieve the team’s goals.
- Trusting the Process: Effective coaches have a proven process for improvement they trust and use. The process encompasses all aspects of their work. Quality coaching guides players in the use of the process to accelerate improvement.
- Turning Challenges Into Change: Effective coaches view challenges as opportunities for improvement and help players overcome obstacles as they strive to achieve goals.
- Sustaining Change: Effective coaches build a culture and a system of success that survives the loss of any player or coach.
“Attendance at this conference was essential to my growth and understanding in my role as an instructional coach. I now have a guide to use as I plan to support the teachers in my building.” — Billie Kennedy, Hale County High School
Justifying Conference Attendance
Need help convincing leadership to let you go? We have created a justification handout and a sample letter for you to use.
Preconference Workshop With Microcredentialing Opportunity
This year, we are collaborating with engage2learn to offer an exciting preconference add-on to the full conference experience.
This opportunity, which will be run by e2L, will focus on the science of coaching and the six essential coaching actions that are proven to consistently improve student performance and teacher retention. It will also look at how to manage an overwhelming workload of educators using platforms like e2L’s own GroweLab.
Included with registration is a one-year license to GroweLab. Through access to GroweLab, participants will have the opportunity to gain badging and microcredentials to measure skills attainment through coaching.
Effective Coaching
Effective coaching requires the planning and implementation of both offensive moves and defensive moves. Each planned activity (play) has a specific purpose – a goal to accomplish. How closely the actual results align with the intended results depends on multiple factors.
The most effective coaches create and implement plays in which each player (teacher or leader) can help build a culture of improvement. At this conference, we will provide learning opportunities for coaches to help them develop a culture of improvement by:
- Building Strong Teams: To build a strong cohesive team, effective coaches build on players’ individual strengths to eliminate isolation and develop a collaborative approach to improvement.
- Planning for Success: Effective coaches analyze the needs of the team and individual players and work with leaders to build a plan to achieve the team’s goals.
- Trusting the Process: Effective coaches have a proven process for improvement they trust and use. The process encompasses all aspects of their work. Quality coaching guides players in the use of the process to accelerate improvement.
- Turning Challenges Into Change: Effective coaches view challenges as opportunities for improvement and help players overcome obstacles as they strive to achieve goals.
- Sustaining Change: Effective coaches build a culture and a system of success that survives the loss of any player or coach.
