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Coaching with Purpose: Equipping Leaders to Support Every Teacher, Everywhere
Tuesday, April 1, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by Valery Dragon, School Improvement Strategist and VP of Strategic Partnerships, UnboundEd
Moderated by Clay Willis, VP of Growth Marketing, UnboundEd
Sponsored by UnboundEd
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With record levels of turnover and a staggering number of novice educators entering the classroom, supporting every teacher and ensuring instructional integrity remains a challenge. This session equips you with the vision, systems awareness, and high-impact strategies needed to support and elevate teachers from all backgrounds, including new teachers.
Effective instructional leadership requires more than oversight; it demands a deep understanding of the coaching cycle and its impact on teaching and learning. The best leaders don’t just manage educators; they cultivate a system where observation, feedback, co-planning, and data meetings drive sustained instructional excellence. What does it take to execute this cycle with clarity and purpose? In this powerful edWebinar, we equip you to:
- Clarify your coaching vision by reflecting on the values that shape your leadership
- Navigate your system to provide strategic support that maximizes teacher growth and student success
- Execute high-impact coaching that strengthens instructional quality through meaningful feedback and targeted collaboration
- Assess your capacity and competency using guiding questions that push your coaching practice forward
It’s time we shift our focus to not only retaining seasoned educators but also ensuring that the next generation of teachers has the resources, guidance, and community they need to thrive in an increasingly demanding profession.
Join us for this dynamic, thought-provoking session to refine your coaching cycle and support new teachers. Let’s build rigorous, relevant, and affirming learning environments—let’s come together to coach for GLEAM® instruction. This recorded edWebinar is of interest to K-12 school leaders and district leaders.
About the Presenter
Valery Dragon, VP of Strategic Partnerships at UnboundEd, has worked for over a decade in the Washington, D.C. area as an ELL specialist, language teacher, and instructional coach before leading a PK-8 school as a principal. Both New Leaders and RELAY trained, she then transitioned to a national organization as a managing director of instructional support to focus on leadership actions and practices. In this role, Valery crafted development for leaders through targeted improvement cycles anchored in operationalizing instructional improvement plans, auditing systems, and structures through the lens of internal coherence and equity, as well as modeling and developing coaching practices anchored in content-specific pedagogy. It is Valery’s belief that fidelity to our mission will empower educators to own their input in school-based outcomes and allow them to intentionally launch their influence as change agents in hopes that their affirmed identities and leveraged leadership position them to build a strong coalition for change.
About the Moderator
Clay Willis is a mission- and results-driven marketing and communications leader committed to making education work for every single learner. As UnboundEd’s Vice President of Growth Marketing, Clay advances the organization’s reach and impact by forging meaningful connections with visionary educators.
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UnboundEd empowers educators to meet the needs of every single student through evidence-informed, engaging, affirming, and meaningful grade-level instruction.
