Student-Centered Coaching

What are your hopes and dreams for coaching this year?

Increasing Participation in Coaching Cycles

Start with the 'Why'

Simon Sinek

TedTalk of Simon Sinek

4 T's for Engagement

• Task
• Time
• Technique
• Team

Reflections

• Beliefs about coaching
• Messaging coaching
• Status of coaching across teachers and teams
• Homework for October

Setting Rigorous Goals for Coaching Cycles

Qualities of Effective Goals

• Student-centered
• Based on standards
• Not about a product or assessment
• Just right in scope
• RIGOROUS

Classroom Management

• Whose goal is it?
• Embed into learning goal
• Separate, intensive support

Emotional Engagement:
based on relationships

Behavioral Engagement:
based on consequences

Intellectual Engagement:
based on a desire to know more

How do we structure coaching that is intellectually engaging to students?

Webb's Depth of Knowledge

• Recall and reproduction
• Basic skills and concepts
• Strategic thinking and reasoning
• Extended thinking

Let's Practice

• Choose a few goals to examine on the list.
• Ask if they address a strategy/ activity/assessment or if they are about learning.
• Determine the DOK level.
• Rewrite a few of the examples.

Coaching Teams

Three Venues of Professional Learning

• Large Group
• Small Group
• One-on-One

Option 1: Coaching Cycles
Purpose: To go deep through ongoing work that includes co-planning and co-teaching.

Option 2: Impact Teams/PLCs
Purpose: Collaborate using student evidence to drive teacher decision-making.

Option 3: Data Teams
Purpose: Use interim assessments to analyze student growth and then change teaching to enhance learning.

Option 4: Learning Labs
Purpose: Create a framework for teachers to get into each other’s classrooms to learn alongside one another.

Text-Based Discussion:

1- Read Student-Centered Coaching (p. 128-130) or Student-Centered Coaching at the Secondary Level (p. 90-92)

2- Focus on the following guiding questions: How do these schools create a focused and aligned plan for professional development? How are their plans student-centered?

3- As you are reading, highlight sections that you would like to share with your small group.

4- In a group of 4-5 people, engage in a whip around to share something you highlighted and why it resonated with you.

Learning Task

• Use the Three Venues Planning Tool to analyze the professional learning opportunities at your school.
• Look for focus and if the activities are aligned to a common goal.
• Think about how you can reach a higher level of focus and alignment.

What are your next steps?