About Angela

Angela Buckingham is an Academic Coaching Specialist in the Austin Independent School District with nearly 20 years of coaching experience. She partners with educators to deepen awareness through connection, reflection, and intentional practice—transforming classrooms and the humans inside them.

Session Information

From Catalyst to Alchemist: Coaching Through Change

Catalysts spark change. Alchemists transform it. As educators, we are experiencing change more rapidly than ever before. Instructional coaches and leaders are often asked to introduce new ideas, strategies, and initiatives – focusing on the object of the change and wondering why the change isn’t sticking.

The future of coaching asks us to shift our focus to coach the person, not the change. In this session, participants will explore how the coaching role can evolve from initiating change to alchemizing it. Through reflection and practice, participants will learn key coaching moves that transform resistance, uncertainty, or surface-level implementation into deeper connection, meaning, and practice.

Whole Coaching: From the Inside Out

Meaningful coaching starts within. This session explores Whole Coaching and how a coach’s awareness, mindset, and presence shape trust, conversations, and impact. Participants will reflect on their coaching identity and leave with practical reflection tools, facilitation strategies, and coaching moves they can immediately apply with teachers and teams.