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
Priority application deadline: July 15, 2025
General application deadline: August 30, 2025
Location: Online
Duration: 9 Months
Cost: $4,140 (Estimated)
Next Start Date: September 2025
To apply, you will need an:
- Updated resume
- Completed Coach-Supervisor Agreement
- 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 | Course Topics | What You'll be Learning |
|---|---|---|
| Course 1 (Autumn 2025) | The first course lays the foundations for relationship-based coaching practices. This content will guide and prepare coaches for productive and effective coaching relationships. Additionally, 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. |
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 with fidelity using the Practice-Based Coaching model. Specifically, you will learn how to create a trusting and supportive coaching partnership; develop shared goals and action plans, conduct successful focused observations and lead observation debriefs using reflection and feedback. |
| Course 2 (Winter 2026) | The second course focuses on coaching instructional leaders in early learning programs. It Includes strategies for using data to guide decisions that support teacher development and growth through planning and continuous quality improvement. The course covers how to develop a trauma-informed and healing-centered approach to coaching. This course examines high quality environments including physical, social and temporal aspects. |
You will learn how to support educators and instructional leaders in building high quality early learning environments.
You will deepen your understanding of licensing requirements, as well as national and state standards, and how to use this knowledge when coaching instructional leaders. You will explore coaching strategies that help instructional leaders improve their active listening and leadership skills. |
| Course 3 (Spring 2026) | The third course focuses on supporting healthy social-emotional development, promoting positive behaviors through a multi-tiered system of support, building strong teacher-child interactions and helping teachers improve their teaching practices. | You will learn how to conduct focused observations of how educators interact with children, using a variety of child development goals as a guide. You will also learn coaching strategies to support educators in using positive behavior support techniques with young children. Finally, you will learn how to coach educators on having high-quality interactions with children. |
Course 1 (Autumn 2025)
Course Topics
The first course lays the foundations for relationship-based coaching practices. This content will guide and prepare coaches for productive and effective coaching relationships.
Additionally, 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.
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 with fidelity using the Practice-Based Coaching model. Specifically, you will learn how to create a trusting and supportive coaching partnership; develop shared goals and action plans, conduct successful focused observations and lead observation debriefs using reflection and feedback.
Course 2 (Winter 2026)
Course Topics
The second course focuses on coaching instructional leaders in early learning programs. It Includes strategies for using data to guide decisions that support teacher development and growth through planning and continuous quality improvement.
The course covers how to develop a trauma-informed and healing-centered approach to coaching.
This course examines high quality environments including physical, social and temporal aspects.
What You'll be Learning
You will learn how to support educators and instructional leaders in building high quality early learning environments.
You will deepen your understanding of licensing requirements, as well as national and state standards, and how to use this knowledge when coaching instructional leaders.
You will explore coaching strategies that help instructional leaders improve their active listening and leadership skills.
Course 3 (Spring 2026)
Course Topics
The third course focuses on supporting healthy social-emotional development, promoting positive behaviors through a multi-tiered system of support, building strong teacher-child interactions and helping teachers improve their teaching practices.
What You'll be Learning
You will learn how to conduct focused observations of how educators interact with children, using a variety of child development goals as a guide.
You will also learn coaching strategies to support educators in using positive behavior support techniques with young children.
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.
