Differentiated Coaching for Educators

Differentiated Consulting Associates was founded by Jane Kise, Ed. D. to further the work of helping educators meet the needs of every student in their classrooms, whether adults or children. Kise is an educational consultant, specializing in team building, coaching, and school staff development. She is currently President of the Association for Psychological Type International. She is also the coauthor of over 20 books, including her series from Corwin Press titled Differentiated Coaching: A Framework for Helping Teachers Change, Differentiation through Personality Types: A Framework for Instruction, Asssessment, and Classroom Management, and (tentative title) Differentiated Leadership (2007). Other titles include Using the MBTI Tool in Organization and Introduction to Type and Coaching. She holds an MBA in finance from the Carlson School of Management and a doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of St. Thomas. Kise has worked with diverse organizations, including Minneapolis Public Schools, The Bush Foundation, the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and numerous other institutions. She has taught writing at the university level and is a faculty member of the Center for Applications of Psychological Type. In 2005, her research on using type in schools won the Isabel Briggs Myers Award for Outstanding Research in the Field of Psychological Type.

Dr. Kise (INFJ) and Dr. Carol Shumate (ENFP) developed their Differentiated Coaching Workshop to train instructional coaches to use personality type theory, popularized through the MBTI®, to help teachers change their coassrooms so that all students can achieve at rigorous academic tasks.

Carol Shumate, Ph.D., is an educational consultant, based in North Carolina, who uses psychological type to help educators and students understand and use the natural strengths of their personality types. She taught writing and humanities at the college level (Yale, the University of Colorado, the University of Connecticut, and Duke among others) before adapting her curriculum to middle and high school levels and sharing it with teachers and students. She has a reading knowledge of five foreign languages and is also a student of “the 16 languages of the MBTI®,” a tool she uses to help educators adapt their communication styles for different personality types and learning styles. Currently Marketing Director of the Association for Psychological Type International, she is also a frequent contributor to the Bulletin of Psychological Type on education and writing topics. An award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction both, she gives seminars for educators, students, and professional writers through her consultancy, Writestyles.com. With funding from the Myers & Briggs Foundation, she and Jane Kise are currently providing staff development in differentiated instruction for an inner-city middle-and-high school in Philadelphia.