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Equity-Focused Coaching Supports in Virtual Environments

Sat, April 23, 11:30am to 1:00pm PDT (11:30am to 1:00pm PDT), Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: North Building, Lobby Level, Rancho Santa Fe 2

Session Type: Symposium

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Coaching is one area of teacher preparation for addressing equity with rising teachers. This symposium brings together research from a total of seven universities in the Southwestern and Southeastern U.S. to explore affordances and challenges of virtual contexts in coaching for equity during the 2019-2020 academic year. The four papers explore the following contexts: peer coaching in university coursework; the traditional pre-conference, observation, post-conference (POP) cycle (Authors, 2017); a virtual simulation program, Mursion; and small-group coaching with first-year inservice teachers. Our discussion will address two areas of scholarly significance: equity and justice in schools and virtual coaching, as coaching practices that must be re-set to prioritize asset-based approaches and virtuality (Billingsley & Scheruermann, 2014) in teacher education.

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