Mission: humanizing care and education

Dr. Kendra Coates is an award winning education leader passionate about accessing and celebrating our unlimited potential (UP) through her Human-Centered Learning, Teaching, and Leading approach.

She is the author of CASEL recognized promising program Growing Early Mindsets (GEM) a literacy-based PreK-3rd teaching and learning framework and curriculum from Mindset Works, the global leader in growth mindset, The Girls’ Guide to Growth Mindset: A Can-Do Approach to Building Confidence, Courage, and Grit, and co-author of Counting What Counts: Reframing Education Outcomes.

Kendra is the Director of Mindset and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Central Oregon and faculty with OSU-Cascades College of Education.

In her twenty-five years of teaching and leadership, she has taught all ages, from preschool to professionals across a variety of settings including early learning, after school programming, abroad, AmeriCorps, special education and intervention, PreK-12 leadership, and higher education.

In addition, she is a certified executive coach and Mindfulness at Work facilitator, and guest lecturer/speaker. She holds a B.A in Political Science, a M.A.T in Special Education, a M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction, a D.Ed. in Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership and educational licenses in literacy, PreK–12 special education, early childhood and elementary education, and school administration in the state of Oregon.

Follow her on Instagram and Twitter @DrKendraCoates.

My UnOFFICIAL BIO

I am always learning, unlearning, and relearning. To write something here that captures Who I am, Who I am REALLY, would be futile as it would leave me going on and on and wanting to constantly revise.

So what can I say? I am trying to live my UP and support others as they live theirs.