UCLA Center X Coaching Partnerships

Transforming thinking into equitable, relationship-centered practice

Our mission is to transform thinking into equitable, relationship-centered practice by providing customized and research-based opportunities.

This transformation requires responsive listening and critical questioning that explores identity, builds cognition and centers voices.
We enact our mission through these capacities:
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Fluid, multi-dimensional interactions

Coaches know how to interact in fluid and multi-dimensional ways, adjusting to create safe spaces for development and growth.

Equitable and socially just consciousness

Coaches maintain relationships by acknowledging biases, recognizing positional power and addressing how race, culture and ethnicity impact interactions.

Individual and systems support

Successful coaches draw from their toolbox, meeting the needs of individuals, while impacting systemic, structural dynamics towards greater equity and social justice.

Upcoming Events

  • Adaptive Schools Foundations Training

    Centinela Valley Union High School District Office 14901 South Inglewood Avenue, Lawndale, CA, United States

    Four-day training to learn how to build strong collaborative and caring work cultures at your site. This foundational professional development is specially designed to support site administrators, teachers, district and agency personnel and staff developers who convene and manage work teams, site councils, shared decision making groups and faculty committees.

  • Professional Leadership and Coaching Academy

    Hybrid

    An equity-focused and relationship-centered academy for the growth, learning, and development of leaders. The academy is designed to explore personal and social identities, equity, trust, conflict, and trauma sensitivity, as related to individual and systems work. Learning and networking will be generative as participants develop their leadership and coaching skills, tools, and resources.

  • Advanced Cognitive CoachingSM

    TBD Los Angeles, CA, United States

    This 6-day training, for educators who have completed the Cognitive CoachingSM Foundations Seminar, provides participants with deepened knowledge and skills for refinement of a coach’s meditational toolbox. Fee: $1600

  • Cognitive CoachingSM Foundations

    ISANA Academies 3580 Wilshire Blvd Suite 1130, Los Angeles, CA, United States

    Eight-day seminar in Cognitive CoachingSM methods. Learn how to build trust by developing physical and verbal rapport, develop teachers' autonomy and sense of community, and apply coaching skills that enhance the intellectual processes of instruction.

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