Coaching Certificate
Gain expertise in successful coaching in community with your peers.
Gain expertise in successful coaching in community with your peers.
About the Certificate
The Practice-Based Coaching Certificate helps you learn the guiding principles and key skills of coaching in early learning environments. You'll deepen your understanding of foundational, data-driven coaching practices to help educators have engaging interactions and support positive behavior in their early learning environments.
Program Details
Applications are now closed. Please email cultiv8@uw.edu with questions.
Location: Online
Duration: 9 Months
Cost: $4,140 (Estimated)
Next Start Date: September 2025
To apply, you will need an:
- Updated resume
- Email completed Coach-Supervisor Agreement to pceapps@uw.edu
- Letter of interest that addresses the following questions:
- What do you hope to gain from this certificate program?
- How do you see yourself using coaching in your current job?
Coaching Certificate Courses
Course 1 (Autumn 2025)
What it Covers
In the first course of the Coaching Certificate, we introduce Practice-Based Coaching (PBC), an evidenced-based approach aimed at enhancing teaching practices by fostering collaborative partnerships. This model focuses on shared goals and action planning, focused observations, and reflection and feedback.
Additionally, we focus on high-quality early learning environments and how to coach educators to create and sustain high-quality classrooms using the PBC model.
What You'll be Learning
You’ll learn key coaching skills and competencies that will help you build stronger, more effective coaching relationships with educators.
You will also discover how to coach fidelity using the Practice-Based Coaching model. Specifically, you will learn how to create a trusting and supportive coaching partnership; develop shared SMART goals and action plans, conduct successful focused observations, and lead observation debriefs using reflection and feedback. Furthermore, you will learn how to identify and coach high quality early learning environments.
Course 2 (Winter 2026)
What it Covers
The second course of the Coaching Certificate is focused on you as a coach and how to successfully implement the Pyramid Model.
The Pyramid Model is an evidence-based teaching framework that facilitates children's healthy social-emotional development through a multi-tiered system of supports.
The Pyramid Model pairs well with the Practice-Based Coaching (PBC) framework to advance effective teaching practices that promote positive behaviors in children.
What You'll be Learning
You will create your coaching philosophy and reflect on your own beliefs about behavior.
You will learn coaching strategies to support educators in using positive behavior support techniques with young children.
You will conduct PBC coaching cycles with Pyramid Model practices to support your coachees in high-quality teacher-child interactions and environments.
Course 3 (Spring 2026)
What it Covers
In the final course of the Coaching Certificate, you will learn how to develop a trauma informed and healing centered approach to coaching. This foundation is the key to coaching educators at all levels, including instructional leaders in early learning programs. You will learn strategies for the parallel process of coaching administrators in supporting their teachers and how to assist instructional leaders and business owners in meeting licensing requirements and program level goals.
What You'll be Learning
You will learn how to support educators and instructional leaders in developing a trauma informed and healing centered approach to teaching and coaching.
You will deepen your understanding of licensing requirements, as well as national and state standards, and how to use this knowledge appropriately when coaching instructional leaders.
You will explore coaching strategies that help instructional leaders improve their active listening and leadership skills for their program staff.
A Transformative Educational Experience
"This certificate provides an in-depth look at the Practice-Based Coaching Model and results in a coach coming out exponentially better upon completion. The program is thorough, intentional and well worth the time invested."
Matt Rogan,
Education Manager,
Head Start and Early Head Start in Early Learning
"I would recommend this coaching program to anyone that wants to grow their coaching practice, new or seasoned. Coaching is a journey so having someone in your corner to support you makes a difference."
Selam Kebebew,
Coach and Supervisor,
Denise Louie Early Head Start,
Certificate Alumna
Questions?
If you've read all of the above and are interested to learn more or have outstanding questions, please contact our team at cultiv8@uw.edu.
