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A Case Study: Moving from Classroom to Coach with Angela Mee Lee

Release Date: 11/18/2025

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In this #coachbetter episode, Kim chats with some members of the team from the (called AAICIS), where she is currently serving as the Executive Director. This episode is celebrating the two years of AAICIS! This episode was rexorded to share and celebrate some of their key achievements over this last year with you! They also wanted to highlight the many ways that the work of the AAICIS team is impacting international schools and educators around the world, and a little bit about the behind the scenes work with AAICIS - what it’s like to volunteer, and what our volunteers get out...

Recognizing Your Leadership, as an Instructional Coach with Dr. Chaunté Garrett

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This #coachbetter episode is about the ways that coaches can see themselves as leaders in their school community. This is a highlight from one of our favorite episodes from a previous season featuring Dr. Chaunté Garrett, former Instructional Coach, and currently Superintendent of a K12 Charter School in North Carolina. What we love about this clip is that so often instructional coaches struggle to recognize the informal leadership aspects of the role that they might be demonstrating - even without realizing it. Many coaches can feel a sense of imposter syndrome when we highlight the...

CASE STUDY: 6 Keys to Building a Coaching Culture with Coaches as Leaders Graduate, Tina Peji

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This #coachbetter episode is another in our , with one of Kim's amazing clients, Tina Peiji. Tina is a highly experienced coach, a graduate of The Coach Certificate and Mentorship Program and Coaches as Leaders. At the time of recording, she had just graduated from Coaches as Leaders. Tina is also an essential member of the A-Team! These are designed to share the story of a coach, and the development of their coaching program and practice in their unique setting. Tina is currently digging into how to develop a coaching program at her school - from the leadership level. After...

Navigating the Hidden Mental Load for Instructional Coaches with Kim Cofino and Diana Beabout

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In this #coachbetter episode Kim and Diana talk about the mental load that coaches carry - and may not recognize. This is a topic that came up during a previous #coachbetter episode with . This is something that, as coaches, we may feel, but may not recognize how it impacts our work - and the work that our coaching partners have the capacity for. In this episode, Kim and Diana will unpack what we mean by “mental load” or “cognitive capacity” and how and why understanding everyone’s (including our own) limited bandwidth has such a huge impact on our coaching practice and coaching...

Stepping into Your Leadership with Fran Prolman

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In this #coachbetter episode Kim chats with Fran Prolman, author, educational leadership consultant and founder of . Fran brings a wealth of experience in educational leadership that is so relevant for coaches and middle leaders, and this episode is a deep dive into so many strategies, ideas and resources for all informal leaders! In this episode Fran and Kim talk about ... Sliding door moments - how to recognize them & what they can bring Recognizing your potential as a leader Key skills for all new leaders - in formal or informal leadership roles The difference between coaching...

Making Instructional Coaching Sustainable with Ellen and Bruce Eisenberg

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This #coachbetter episode is about the enabling conditions for coaching success and is a highlight from one of Kim's favorite episodes from a previous season featuring Ellen and Bruce Eisenberg, Founders of . Ellen and Bruce highlight the importance of developing a school culture that supports a growth mindset and a coaching culture. If we don’t have the systems and structures to enable teachers to opt-in to coaching and we aren’t ensuring that coaches are focused on coaching work, it will be very challenging to build a coaching culture. All schools need the three elements of the...

CASE STUDY: Bridging the Gap Between Professional Learning & Classroom Action with Sarah Tudge

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This #coachbetter episode is another in our , with one of Kim's amazing clients, Sarah Tudge, High School Curriculum Coordinator at the International School of Manila in the Philippines. At the time of recording, Sarah had just graduated from The Coach and completed her amazing Action Research around the impact of coaching - if you want to see the outcome of her research, make sure to check out on our website at We're excited to share this episode with Sarah with you because Sarah came to The Coach with a TON of coaching experience and she still learned and achieved so much, all of which was...

The Difference Between a Coaching Mindset & Coaching Program

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This #coachbetter episode is about the difference between a coaching mindset and a coaching program. There is a HUGE difference between embracing a coaching mindset and building an intentional coaching program. However, because it’s quite hard to see all the layers that go into an intentional coaching program it might seem like if everyone has a coaching mindset, we have a coaching program. Although that’s a wonderful foundation, it’s not quite all it takes to create a thriving coaching program. Kim unpacks 5 key differences between embracing a coaching mindset and an intentional...

Finding the Line Between Appraisal & Growth with Lindsay Prendergast

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In #coachbetter episode, Kim chats with Dr. Lindsay Prendergast, who’s currently Assistant Director of the , and a best selling author. Lindsay was a teacher, administrator and a coach for many years before shifting to work with the Danielson Group. In this conversation, they talk about: Why appraisal and supervision is so important - and should be seen as a gift How appraisal has gotten twisted, and become so punitive Where coaching fits into this process Where the lines get blurry when administrators seek to bring coaching into appraisal How we can help draw a clearer...

Creating a Culture of Coaching – Before Hiring Coaches with Leigh Miller

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In this #coachbetter episode we’re talking about building a culture of coaching. This is a highlight from one of Kim's favorite episodes from a previous season featuring Leigh Miller, Deputy Head of School at Munich International School. What we love about this clip is that Leigh describes what a culture of coaching looks and feels like from her time at a previous school. What’s especially interesting is that they developed a coaching culture even BEFORE they hired coaches. Even before they had coaches, they had a community where everyone (teachers, leaders, students, support staff)...

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This #coachbetter episode is another in our series of coaching case studies, with one of Kim's amazing clients, Angela Mee Lee, Early Years Performing Arts teacher at UNIS Hanoi, Vietnam. At the time of recording Angela had just graduated from The Coach Certificate and Mentorship Program.

These case study episodes are designed to share the story of a coach, and the development of their coaching program and practice in their unique setting.

We are excited to share this episode with Angela with you because Angela has been on a year and a half journey to coaching with Kim and she has grown so much! She started in the course Getting Started as an Instructional Coach and discovered that coaching is so aligned with her educational values, so she wanted to dig even deeper, and then she joined The Coach Certificate and Mentorship Program.

Angela is already applying so much of her learning in her current role (at the time of recording) and in her future role in a brand-new startup school in India.

In this conversation Angela and Kim talk about...

How Angela started her journey to instructional coaching
What makes coaching valuable to Angela as a classroom teacher - and her early experiences with coaching with The Coach Mentor, Maggie Hos-McGrane when they both worked at the American School of Bombay!
The surprises she uncovered about coaching as she was learning more
What Angela was able to accomplish in just one academic year in The Coach Certificate and Mentorship Program
How Angela is applying her learning in multiple contexts
What she wishes she knew before she started coaching

This episode highlights the ongoing journey that we take when we begin learning about coaching.

Find the show notes for this episode here.

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