Building Thinking Classrooms Conference 2026

This session explores how Cognitive Coaching can strengthen teacher growth by shifting the coaching stance from consulting toward cultivating teachers’ own noticing.

Participants will examine how planning and reflecting conversations supported deeper noticing of student thinking and classroom dynamics through coaching moves such as paraphrasing, pausing, and mediative questioning.

Topics of co-planning, co-teaching, and collaborative reflection with colleagues will be addressed through the Building Thinking Classrooms lens.

Participants will leave with an introduction to Cognitive Coaching foundations, practical conversation structures, and ideas for using coaching conversations to deepen noticing and support Building Thinking Classrooms implementation.