Teacher Leadership Support

Heartland AEA provides teacher leadership support to districts and buildings through:

  • 1:1 coaching
  • small group coaching
  • personalized professional learning
  • mentor training
  • enhancing essential leadership skills
  • planning and providing adult learning
  • TLC Plan revisions

Our purpose is to maximize the impact of coaching by supporting teacher leaders in finding clarity in their role and building confidence, capacity and refinement in their skills to ensure student growth.

The Agency also provides professional learning opportunities for area teacher leaders such as:

Learn more about Heartland AEA teacher leadership learning opportunities

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Michelle Vaughan

Michelle Vaughan

  • Instructional Coach

Education: Bachelor’s degree, elementary education and early childhood education; Master’s degree, literacy education; Endorsements, reading and K-12 reading specialist

Experience: 5th grade teacher, 3rd and 4th grade looping teacher with special education co-teaching, Elementary instructional coach, Instructional coach consultant
Joined Heartland AEA in 2015

Expertise: Curriculum planning and delivery; differentiated instruction; assessment and data analysis; adult learning theory; planning and providing professional learning; mentoring and induction; facilitation; change management; building teacher capacity

How I’ve made an impact: As an instructional coach, I partnered with administrators and teacher leaders to help them achieve their goals of building a culture of coaching within their schools. By providing ongoing support, facilitating targeted coaching sessions, modeling and implementing sustainable strategies and fostering collaborative dialogue, I empowered them to create a coaching framework that strengthened instructional practices and promoted continuous professional growth among their colleagues. 

Teacher Leadership Support