Moves for Leading Student-Centered Coaching

Outcomes

• Learn strategies for leading a coaching effort in your school or district
• Align these strategies with the research on building collective efficacy

We close the gap between what the students know and what they need to know.

The Big Idea

• Coaching is not about 'fixing people'
• Coaching is a partnership
• Coaching is about student learning

Effect Sizes from John Hattie

• Teacher clarity d=0.75
• Collective efficacy d=1.57
• Formative evaluation d=0.90

Coaching can be...

• Relationship-Driven
• Teacher-Centered
• Student-Centered

Relationship-Driven Coaching: The coach provides support and resources to teachers.

Teacher-Centered Coaching: The coach moves teachers towards implementing a program or set of instructional practices.

Student-Centered Coaching: The coach partners with teachers to design learning that is based on a goal for students.

Learning Task

• Read the continuum on p. 2 in your handouts
• How does it compare with your experience?

Three Moves for Leading a Coaching Effort

#1 Separate Coaching from Supervision

Strategies

• Separate pressure from support
• Clearly define the coach's role
• Set expectations for instructional practice
• Avoid coaches leading walk throughs and other evaluative processes

Learning Task

• Read the chart: Principal and Coach Partnerships on p. 3 in your handouts
• Notice how the principal sets expectations and the coach provides support
• Discuss as a large group

#2
Create a Culture of Learning

Strategies

• Maintain an asset-based perspective towards teachers
• Build teachers' collective efficacy
• Embrace the messiness of learning among teachers and students

Learning Task

• Reflect on the rubric provided on p. 4 in your handouts.
• Discuss as a large group

#3: Set the Expectation for Authentic Participation in Coaching

Strategies

• It's not about compliance
• Provide choice, ownership, and autonomy to teachers
• Hold teachers accountable
• Affirm and celebrate!

Learning Task

• Read the table: Providing Choice, Ownership, and Autonomy to Teachers (p. 4 in your handouts)
• Discuss how these methods could be used to encourage teachers to engage authentically.

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