ABSTRACT
In my own personal experience, as a science teacher and Teacher on Special Assignment with my school district, I had the opportunity to work with Kathy Kee when she was Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD. She provided professional development to district teachers and leaders who were considering using cognitive coaching (CC), developed by Arthur L. Costa and Robert J. Garmstron , as their alternative evaluation process. I attended the sessions, was impressed, and energized. I reread all our training materials, practiced positive presuppositions on colleagues and my husband, worked on framing
questions so that responses could be more thoughtful, and I practiced listening with friends without it becoming autobiographical. But, it wasn’t until my colleague Mary Arthur, the campus ELA interventionist, and I actually put CC into practice that I saw the real power of it.
