Student-Centered Coaching

Outcomes

• Develop strategies for coaching when it doesn't feel student-centered
• Broaden teacher engagement in coaching
• Collect and reflect on data from our coaching cycles
• Reflect on how to go deeper with coaching

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Cards for Coaching Game

Not all coaching fits into a student-centered coaching cycle. Let's explore how we can still coach effectively in these situations.

Task: Read the scenario on p. 2 in your handouts. Select the coaching moves that you would use. Discuss at your table.

Task: Create a concept map on chart paper to collect strategies for coaching that feels less student-centered.

Going Deeper with Coaching

We Go Deeper in Two Ways

• The structures we use (cycles, logs, scheduling, etc.)
• How we frame our conversations (norms, probing questions, etc.)

Cards for Coaching Game

Flaherty's Flow of Coaching

• Establish a collegial relationship with the teacher
• Find an opening for a coaching cycle
• Spend time in the classroom
• Set norms with the teacher
• Coaching conversations begin

Task: Revisit the structures we use. Record how you might use them to go deeper.

Asking Better Questions

• Be Curious
• Ask Open Questions
• Be Non Judgemental
• Task: Create an example and a non example for each

Task: Read the Seven Norms of Collaborative Work. How might you use them to go deeper?

Let's Practice

• Talk through an idea you have for an upcoming coaching session.
• Share a challenge you are having at school.

Cards for Coaching Game

Impact Study

• Provide data
• Discuss using the end of cycle reflection tool

Principal and Coach Relaunch

• TRENDS in participation
• MESSAGING to teachers
• FOLLOW THROUGH by principal

Next Steps