Keith Young is an education coach, trainer, and writer. Keith was raised in the foothills of the

Appalachian Mountains of northern Alabama. After a short stint at seminary, he pivoted to

teaching secondary students for the U.S. government in Germany. In his first years of teaching,

he developed a knack for leading and training colleagues. Eventually, Keith shifted full-time to

training teachers and leading school improvement efforts at the school district level. Later, he

became a principal, leading school turnaround work and regularly increasing student outcomes

by double digits in Colorado, Puerto Rico, and Arizona. Along the way, Keith picked up a

multiplicity of advanced education degrees. Nowadays, Keith lives on the coast of South

Carolina and trains and coaches administrators, school leadership teams, and teacher coaches.

As a coach, he’s known for “telling it like it is” and using a blended coaching model. The schools

Keith coaches across the United States and internationally produce significant increases in

student outcomes academically and affectively.

Episode Notes:

-Keith has a varied background and is in about 1,000 classrooms a year coaching educators, modeling coaching with coaches, as well as modeling coaching for administrators and doing model lessons with students.

-What is a coach? - A coach is a professional who prompts a teacher,  trains a teacher, or instructs a teacher. Think of your piano teacher, your baseball, or gymnastic coach. Those effective practices inform our coaching.

-The Instructional Coaching Handbook: A one stop shop to look at those trouble spots in coaching. Give ideas, try, and see what works! It is a place to grab ideas around anything troubling you in coaching.

-Knight, Aguilar, and Marzano were pulled from and influenced these amazing authors.

-Coaching is about empowering educators, this is for your whole life. This is for the whole generation of students you teach.

-Dot and circle analogy- focus on what you can control.

-Teach teachers to curate- curate a strategy to get past this hardest to teach ideas, concepts, and skills.

-Coaching is a professional conversation with a goal and don’t forget to be kind.

-Brainstorming is a super power.

Follow Keith:

Twitter: @a_keithyoung

Website: Akycinsulting.com

LinkedIn & Facebook: akeithyoung

Instagram: akyconsulting