1. Literacy Coaching
May 24, 2013

2. Agenda Coaching Rationale WCPSS Coaching Model K-2 Literacy Position
Success Factors for Coaching Program
Closing
Handout - Agenda

3. Literacy is a right, not a privilege
Wake County Public School System

4. Why Literacy Coaching?

5. --Fielding, Kerr, and Rosier, 2007
It matters little what else they learn in elementary school if they do not learn to read at grade level.
--Fielding, Kerr, and Rosier, 2007

6. Implementation Drivers
Improved Outcomes for Students
Effective Educational Strategies
Performance Assessment (Fidelity)
Implementation Drivers
Coaching
Systems
Intervention
Training
Facilitative
Administration
Competency Drivers
Organization Drivers
Integrated & Compensatory
Selection
Decision Support Data System
Leadership
Adaptive
Technical
© Fixsen & Blase, 2008

8. Most Effective
Sustained, ongoing, job-embedded professional development…with follow- up support!

9. Handouts – Coaching Model Graphic and Narrative9

10. Share Your thoughts on WCPSS Coaching Model
What did you notice?
What did you think?

11. K-2 Literacy Position
Handout – K-2 Lit Position Description

12. Unmistakable Impact

13. What Factors Increase the Success of Coaching Programs?
Hiring the Right Coaches

14. What Factors Increase the Success of Coaching Programs?
Professional Development for Coaches

15. What Factors Increase the Success of Coaching Programs?
Time Working with Teachers

16. Coaching Heavy/Coaching Light
For the promise of coaching to have the greatest impact on teaching and student learning, it is essential that coaches make choices about how to allocate their time that are driven by a clear intention to have the greatest impact on the results they seek from coaching…improving student learning.
Joellen Killion

17. Connect With A partner What big Ideas or Small Details stood out to you?

18. What Factors Increase the Success of Coaching Programs?
Research Based Instruction

19. More Success Factors… Principal and Coaches Work Together
Ongoing Evaluation of Coaching Program
Protection of Coaching Relationships

20. Connect With A partner What big Ideas or Small Details stood out to you?

21. Closing Thoughts – What is the Value of a Coach?
Every time a coach helps a teacher implement a new teaching or learning strategy, the coach is helping every other student that teacher will teach. One step forward for a teacher is one step forward for hundreds or thousands of children. Multiply that impact by all a coach does every day, and you get a clear picture of the value of instructional coaches. Dr. Jim Knight

22. NEXt Steps
If you have any questions, please contact either Barbara Sorensen (bsorensen) or Julia DeLaRosa (jdelarosa).
Once you make a decision regarding literacy coaching, send Sharon Collins (sgcollins) the name and address of your coach.

23. Reflections
Big Ideas
Insights
Questions
Future Action