1. Advanced Cognitive Coaching: 2013 Retreat

2. ‘Do Now’ Share
What coaching innovations would you like to share with the whole group? What interesting coaching strategy did you try that worked?
What coaching challenge(s) did you encounter? What did you try that didn’t work?

3. Even the Best Experts Have Spectacular Coaching Failures
SCRIPT PLEASE!

4. REVISIT WHY WE COACH Improve student outcomes
Support instructional change (scaffolded)
Promote collegiality
Enhance student thinking
Build school culture
Develop teacher conceptual skill
Appreciate/celebrate diversity

5. REVISIT BENEFITS OF CC Increased student test scores
Increased teacher efficacy
Increased teacher reflection
Increased teacher satisfaction
Increased professionalism of school culture
Increased teacher collaboration
Assisted teachers professionally and personally

6. Your Elevator Speech? What do you do?
How would you explain it to your teachers?
How would you explain it to a family member who is not an educator?
How would you explain it in a job interview with a principal?

7. Relationship building Portfolios/Files/Storage
CC FRAMEWORK
Relationship building
Pre-visit
Data collection
Post-visit
Portfolios/Files/Storage

8. CC TRUTHS:
What Coaching IS:
What Coaching ISN’T:

9. What CogCoaching ‘Truths’ Eluded Chef Ramsay?

10. TOUGH COACHING CASE STUDY #1

11. TOUGH COACHING CASE STUDY #2

12. IMPLEMENTATION SNAGS? Enlist principal support for coaching
Separate coaching from evaluation*
Distinguish between teachers who need coaching vs. clinical supervision
Demonstrate that all teachers can benefit
Create culture of collaboration
Establish trusting environment
Set structured time for coaching
Allow for a variety of interactions
Harness other ‘natural’ coaching contexts

13. UPCOMING TRAINING!

14. UPCOMING TRAINING!

15. UPCOMING TRAINING!

16. UPCOMING TRAINING!

17. HIT the BOOKS TONS of academic coaching and case study books out there
Check out the resources section of the QSI website
Learn more about contents that are not your area of expertise

18. John Hattie -Thanks, Tammi Gee!
Get into groups of 4
Once you receive your envelope, take out the pieces for your ‘category’ and put them in prioritized order of importance for impacting student learning: most important (top) to least (bottom)

19. John Hattie -Thanks, Tammi Gee!
How can you use this information to guide your cognitive coaching efforts this upcoming year?

20. Teach like a Champion An NTA Framework
Get into groups of 4
Once you receive your envelope, take out the pieces for your ‘category’ and put them in prioritized order of importance for impacting student learning: most important (top) to least (bottom)

22. GOAL SETTING: How do your teachers formally set their own goals?
How do you try to align every teacher’s goals to the evaluation tool?
How do you track the goals established by your teachers?
How do you track goal progress and/or completion?
How do you celebrate achieved goals?
How do you set new ones?

23. LEVERAGING the EVALUATION TOOL
Training teachers on their tool
Training teachers on your tool and explaining your job expectations
‘Growth mindset’ item connect to coaching
Connecting with your leader

24. PORTFOLIOS
A portfolio is a collection of artifacts that tell a story PLUS teacher-written reflective pieces tied to the artifacts.

25. ENHANCED WALKTHROUGHS
Data reporting at:

26. COACHING TEAMS FACT: You are only one person.
FACT: You learn 90% of what you teach.
FACT: Coach turnover is a concern for campuses seeking to build a consistent instructional culture built on high expectations and collaboration.
FACT: You are not the only expert on your campus.
FACT: Ops to lead increase buy-in and teamwork.
FACT: Personality matching can be just as powerful as content knowledge in a coaching team.

27. VIDEOS Flip phone ‘quick visit’ Extensive video camera footage
Can be screened privately, with coach, or publicly to share great practices!!
Add reflection/portfolio component for a single or series of videos
BONUS: No scripting required on your part!
BONUS: Can be ed for dialogue.

28. VIDEO IDEAS – LET’S PLAY!
Inside Mathematics
Smart Teaching
New Teacher Center
Teaching Channel
Teacher Tube
Learnzillion
Edutopia
Edudemic
Note: Teacher Training Videos:

29. TEAM TEACHING Leader + teacher Coach + teacher Teacher + teacher
Matching benefits:
1. content 2. class management 3. discipline 4. passion 5. data use 6. engagement 7. rigor

30. PEER OBSERVATIONS
Teachers visiting within their department at your site
Teachers visiting other departments at your site
Teachers visiting their content at other sites
Teachers visiting other contents at other sites

31. PARALLEL COACHING With another coach With a teacher With a leader
With an AP
With a QSI representative

32. HARNESSING DATA ACTIVITY
Pre/post test growth scores
Grade distribution reports
Progress report audits
Attendance reports
Student surveys
Benchmark scores
AIMS scores

33. New QSI Curriculum Supports: ELA and Math
Two common repositories for all Leona teachers:
1. Math ELA
What’s there?
Exemplar maps Lesson plans Lesson videos Resources: Apps, websites, etc. CCSS/PARCC connections

34. Lesson Plan Template

35. GET OFF YOUR CAMPUS
Hear others ‘talk’ about observations in an insightful, objective way
Learn new ways of thinking
Prepare for your accreditation visit
Stock your ‘best practices’ tool box
Network

36. INTERSITE COACHING Visit classrooms outside of your bubble
‘Swap’ content area or grade level expertise for teachers resistant to coaching
Get to know each other better and spread your strengths

37. MODELING
Be mindful of your staff meetings and presentations DON’T miss the chance to model what you want to grow!
Remember to explicitly discuss the modeling – and invite participants to track/evaluate the strategies
CC Expectation: 50% peer-to-peer. New Leona presentation standards!

38. DESIGNING TARGETED DATA COLLECTION SHEETS
How have our data
collection forms evolved?
Last Year Idea :
ex: high school math
walkthrough sheets with the
common core best practices
Last Year Idea :
ex: NTA data collection tool
focused on targeted strategies
for each month’s session

39. YOUR INSIGHTS:

40. HR: YOU CAN’T FIX EVERYTHING
How do you know when you need to see Toby? (note: no names please, we’re talking only in generalities)

41. ‘Do Now’ Solutions
Review our collective coaching challenge(s) that we encountered.
Provide potential solutions for each of the challenges.

42. ‘MIH’: YOUR NEXT STEPS