Elevate Your Instructional Coaching Approach

A Language Lens® for Every Instructional Leader to Guide Educators in Reaching All Students

Developed and Facilitated by Sarah B. Ottow

SUPPORTING INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERS SINCE 2015 * FORMERLY CONFIANZA’S CHANGE AGENT PROGRAM FOR EQUITY, LANGUAGE AND LITERACY

Objectives:

Define and fortify your role as an instructional leader who strengthens equity-based mindsets and improves language/literacy practices
Explain the principles of adult learning theory and practical implications in your setting as a coach, department head, dean, coordinator, director or school leader (principal or assistant principal)
Implement goals and demonstrate shifts in student-centered, equity-based mindsets and practice through data-based coaching cycles and an action plan for continuous improvement

What’s Included

✔️ 4 Quarterly, Facilitated Sessions by Confianza Director Sarah B. Ottow

✔️The Language Lens Academy Online Resource Hub

✔️ Practical Videos, Readings and Coaching Tool Tutorials

✔️ Access to our network across districts of like-minded instructional leaders

✔️ Guidance for implementation to impact educators and students…long after the training is over!

Partnering with Confianza has been a wonderful experience. Sarah Ottow is passionate, knowledgeable, and authentic expert in her work. We have meaningful conversations that help develop understandings around language, literacy, and equity to build teacher capacity.

Shadia Salem, Assistant Superintendent of English Learning
I used to tell teachers to make sure you plan with all four domains and scaffolds but now I know I need to provide explicit feedback to them. Utilizing these tools as a coaching resource will shift my practice. I think these forms will structure my feedback to teachers that can move into next steps for their instruction and student learning.

DAMARIS GUTIERREZ, INSTRUCTIONAL SPECIALIST
Asking questions, reevaluating tools for bias, recognizing your own personal bias, understanding the qualities of effective instruction—I found this insightful and inspiring

RONALD WATSON, PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITY LEADER
The biggest value from this partnership was the coaching support and modeling, specifically around non-judgmental, inquiry-based coaching. I can now listen to teachers and offer ideas to help teachers focus on oracy skills and giving students power through language.

Molly Shveda, Instructional Coach

Program Creator and Facilitator, Sarah B. Ottow

For over twenty years, Sarah has been passionate about leading change at the classroom level and expanding spheres of influence so that an entire school is more culturally and linguistically sustaining. Through her Language Lens method that has supported over 20,000 educators worldwide, Sarah brings a practical set of tools and resources that show other instructional leaders how to be the change they wish to see in their schools, the positive change that our students deserve.