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Session Description:  This session supports coaches in exploring leader mental health and wellbeing, including identifying and responding to the stressors and mental health challenges currently facing school leaders in these troubled times, while emphasizing that self-care is an essential prerequisite for leading for equity. Participants will engage in scenario-based learning to explore the critical intersection between leader well-being, lived experiences, and sustainability. The session emphasizes the critical role of coaches as bridges to self-care for leaders, and shares actionable ways coaches can support collective and individual self-care approaches that sustain equity leadership.

Session Description: This session explores the concepts of Breaking, Bridging, Othering, and Belonging in leadership. Specifically, how leaders can apply these concepts to their work in divided communities. Engaging professionally and productively with colleagues who have diverse perspectives, during these troubled times, requires having strategies and approaches that support leaders to tap into the courage needed to forge connections with others. Join this session to discuss how coaching can strengthen leaders’ intentional application of these compelling concepts.

Session Description: Born between 2010 and 2024, Generational Alpha is the first generation to grow up entirely in the digital age. Participants will hear from the voices of students about the essential role of technology in their lives. The participants will discuss how to support equity leaders to serve digital natives, despite generational differences. Join this session to explore ways for coaches to support leaders to include Generation Alpha  in the learning process and to serve as a powerful bridge between students and the adults who surround them.

Session Description: This session equips leadership coaches with equity-centered strategies to support district and school leaders serving rural communities across California. Participants will explore how to help leaders disrupt deficit narratives about rural education, celebrate rural cultural wealth as an asset for transforming educational outcomes, and overcome systemic and institutional challenges, including natural disaster preparedness, to serve the needs of each learner, with particular attention to Indigenous students, emergent bilinguals, and migrant populations.

Session Description: This session equips leadership coaches with equity-centered strategies to support district and school administrators in cultivating and sustaining teacher leadership systems and distributed leadership. Participants will explore how to coach leaders to create organizational conditions where teacher leaders from all backgrounds, particularly those from marginalized identity groups, can thrive as agents of equity-focused, student and community-centered school transformation. The focus is on building leaders' capacity to design sustainable systems rather than relying on individual heroic efforts.

Session Description: In this session, leadership coaches practice equity-centered strategies to support district and school administrators in leading from the margins to counter systemic oppression. Participants will explore how to help leaders shift power and voice to marginalized communities, move beyond engagement to authentic partnership in educational decisions, enact transformative collective agency, and center bridging for belonging.

Session Description: This interactive session provides leadership coaches with opportunities to explore resources and strategies in cultivating relational trust. The session will also explore avenues to rebuild relational trust when trust has been fractured.

Session Description: In this session, participants will deepen their understanding of the assumptions, values, and beliefs that drive systems of oppression through self-reflection, dialogue, and collaboration. Participants will explore and share ways to develop a leader’s capacities to use leadership practices to disrupt systemic oppression.

Session Description: This session will create a space for leadership coaches to explore the complexities of cultivating resilience in their context. Participants will share, learn, and reflect on equity micro-moves to support coaches and their coachees in processing challenges and moving toward transformation.

Session Description: In this session, participants will explore what it might mean to coach a leader dealing with conflict and hostile confrontations in their work. Participants will have the opportunity to unpack the varying nature of confrontations and will collaborate with fellow coaches in sharing strategies for self-regulation, preparation and grounding.

Session Description: In this session, participants will take a deeper look at what it might mean to cultivate hope in leaders during uncertain and troubling times by considering the possibilities that can grow out of struggle and chaos. Participants will share stories and equity-centered coaching strategies, practices and tools to support leaders in courageously leading with hope in the current climate.

Session Description: In this session, participants will take a deeper look at what it might mean to create spaces for collective care for coaches where rest is an act of resistance. Participants will have the opportunity to collaborate and practice strategies and tools to restore oneself in order to coach for equity.

This session is a follow up to last year’s Hot Topic session on Breaking, Bridging, Othering, and Belonging. (Note: for those new to this topic, we recommend starting with Hot Topic Session A2)

Participants will share their personal experiences in engaging with this work since we last met. How have these concepts played out for the leaders you’ve coached, in these troubled times? How have you helped to cultivate hope?

Session Description: In this session, coaches will explore the neuroscience behind listening that supports personal and professional growth of their coachees. Through structured role-plays and debriefs, coaches will identify a specific listening-related skill in order to strengthen and enhance their coaching practice. 

This session is designed for those newer to role plays.

Session Description: In this workshop participants will have the opportunity to engage in a focused exploration of the skills, knowledge, and dispositions essential to equity-centered educational leadership coaching. Through facilitated discussion and analysis of coaching strategies, participants will deepen their understanding of effective coaching practices. The session will include a structured, multi-round role play in which each participant will rotate through the roles of coach, leader, and observer.

This session is designed for those who are more experienced with role-plays.

Session Description: Ever wish you could rewind a challenging coaching conversation and try it again? You’re not alone. Join your colleagues for a coaching deep dive designed to help you do just that. Bring a real coaching challenge you’re grappling with and step back into the conversation through supportive, low-risk role play with fellow coaches. You’ll practice your craft, gain new perspectives, and experience what it feels like to be coached while you coach, leaving with fresh insights you can use immediately.

This session is designed for those with extensive experience with role plays. 

Session Description: In 2024-2026, Regional Academies participated in piloting and implementation stages of the 21CSLA the Coaching Peer Observation. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect on the successes and challenges of the peer observation process and protocol. How might the process be refined? What modifications do Regional Academies and coaches suggest after their initial engagement in the process? What might be the next steps for the continued use of the process and protocol?

Session Description: In 2025, the State Center began to record role plays highlighting coaching conversations. Throughout the past year, several regional academies have engaged in the process of capturing sample coaching vignettes through video role plays. These products are housed in the HUB for current and future use for all Regional Academies. This session will provide opportunities for 21CSLA coaches to engage in the video recording process to enhance the breadth of coaching conversation videos available.  Participants will be assigned a partner, and each pair (as coach and coachee) will record a role play based on a provided scenario.