Eight-day Foundation Seminar, where participants learn how to: build trust by developing physical and verbal rapport utilize three mediative maps for planning, reflecting and problem resolving develop teachers' autonomy and sense of community distinguish four support functions: coaching, evaluating, consulting, collaborating practice coaching interactions to differentiate for individual needs utilize the coaching toolkit of pause, paraphrase, and pose a question apply coaching skills that enhance the intellectual processes of instruction distinguish between the five categories of feedback.

"This learning guide is desinged to accompany our book, Cognitive coaching: a foundation for Renaissance schools, second edition, Norwood, MA: Chirstopher-Cordon, c2002"