Cognitive Coaching • Self-Directed Growth • Reflective Practices

Cognitive Coaching Seminars & Events

An intensive professional learning series designed to equip special education leaders, supervisors, and mentors with the metacognitive tools and reflective strategies needed to foster self-directed learning and enhance instructional leadership capacity.

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Fostering Autonomy & Professional Capacity

The Cognitive Coaching series provides an interactive framework that shifts the focus from simple advice-giving to modifying capacity and inner thought processes. Participants explore evidence-based conversation maps designed to support colleagues in planning, reflecting, and problem-resolving.

Through highly supportive cohort structures, text-level analysis, and practice-driven breakouts, school leaders learn how to ask mediating questions, observe behavioral data points cleanly, and build long-term trust across local district tiers.

Core Seminar Pillars

Conversation Mapping

Mastering structured planning, reflection, and problem-solving dialogues.

Mediating Thinking

Developing questioning strategies that expand professional cognitive flexibility.

Trust and Rapport Building

Learning specialized, non-judgmental tracking and matching behaviors that lower operational friction and isolation across educational support staff teams.

Series Registration

Enrollment tracks and cohort sequencing requirements for our monthly series segments publish dynamically.

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Accommodations & Attendance Guidelines

Because this event runs in strict cumulative workshop modules, consistent attendance across the series dates is highly recommended. Accessibility accommodation options can be reported within the dashboard 10 business days clear of start times. Standard 7-day cancellation guidelines apply.

The Michigan Association of Administrators of Special Education (MAASE) is a statewide network of educational leaders advancing equitable outcomes for students with disabilities through leadership, collaboration, and advocacy.