Moves for Leading Student-Centered Coaching

Learning Task: Read sections 5 and 7 of your rubric.

Move #1: Commit to Your Approach to Coaching

Is it...

• Relationship-Driven,
• Teacher-Centered, or
• 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.

Move #2: Separate Coaching from Supervision

Strategies

• Plan how you will provide pressure and 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 that is in your handouts
• Notice how the principal sets expectations and how the coach provides support

Move #3:
Create a Culture of Learning

Strategies

• Always maintain an asset-based perspective towards teachers
• Embrace the messiness of learning among teachers and students
• Give coaching the time it needs to work
• Model being a learner yourself

Move #4: Set the Expectation for Authentic Participation in Coaching Cycles

Make the 'Why' about Student Learning

Strategies

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

Move #5: Expect Coaching Cycles

Coaching Cycles are...

• Where coaches make a measurable impact
• Aligned with the standards
• The most important part of a coach's schedule

Learning Task

• Create your own 'golden circle' for coaching
• Revisit the sections 5 and 7 in the rubric to set goals for leading coaching.