1. Conscious Competence Ladder: Debrief
What implications does the Ladder bring to your level of consciousness when it comes to learning the SMART School Improvement System and the SMART Coaching Competencies?
Time: 60 minutes (10/10)
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual.
Purpose: Move the audience through each stage of the Conscious Competence Ladder
Lecture Notes:
Activity Notes:
The Conscious Competence Ladder is useful in several ways:
Personally: You can use it to understand the emotions you’ll experience during the learning process. This helps you stay motivated when times get tough and helps you manage your expectations of success so you don’t’ try to expect too much too soon.
Professionally: You can use it to explain to students (if a teacher) or faculty (if in leadership) that this ladder applies to all people expected to learn something new and apply it in their performance.
Coaching: Use this ladder to assess the emotions and skill areas of a client and ask pertinent questions for the client to take action to move through each stage.

2. Time for a BREAK Time: 15 minutes (1/1 slide) Purpose: Break
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual
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3. SMART Coaching Cycle STAGE 4: STAGE 1: STAGE 3: STAGE 2: Plan to
Take Action
STAGE 1:
Set the
Foundation
STAGE 3:
Identify the Need for Change
STAGE 2:
Examine the Data
Time: 2 minutes (1/2)
Purpose: Review the four stages around the SMART Coaching Cycle – Connect Day 5 and 6
Lecture Notes: Introduce the SMART Coaching Cycle and highlight each stage as follows:
Stage 1: Set the Foundation. This stage is critical for developing the relationship between the coach and the client.
Stage 2: Examine the Data allows the coach and client to look at the reality of the situation through different perspectives, lenses, and data sources to validate or dispute current perceptions.
Stage 3: Identify the Need for Change: This stage shifts the current mindset into future possibilities for better results. The coach uses powerful questions for the client to establish a future vision of self, team, and/or organization.
Stage 4: Plan to Take Action: Every coaching conversation should end with the client taking an action step or steps toward the goal. This stage is critical for improvement. The next coaching conversation relies on the action of the client to achieve his/her goal.
Activity Notes:
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual.

4. Laboratory of Grace: Coaching for Results
Preparation: Individually reflect
Move your chairs into pairs
Begin coaching
Time: 45 minutes (1/2 Slides)
Purpose: Challenge myself as a coach. Increase comfort level in using the SMART Coaching Cycle and related competencies
Resources Required: Participant Manual page 33
Lecture Notes:
Activity Notes: Each person will play the role of a coach and coachee.
Coach role: Use the complete Coaching Cycle to work with your coachee with his/her focus area for change.
Coachee: Determine an area of focus based on what you’ve learned about coaching competencies and the SMART Goal process. Make it specific.
Preparation: Individually reflect on:
Where do you think you fall on the Conscious Competence Ladder as a SMART Coach and why?
What feelings do you have about being in that place?
My coaching focus is (be specific):
Instructions:
Person A coaches person B
Switch roles
Debrief­­­­­­­ (next slide)
At the signal reverse roles

5. Laboratory of Grace: Debrief
With your coaching partner, discuss each of the prompts relating to how it felt to coach and how it felt to be coached.
Time: 45 minutes (2/2 Slides)
Purpose: Challenge myself as a coach
Resources Required: Participant Manual page 34
Lecture Notes:
Activity Notes:
Reference p. 34 in the Coaching Tab
Have coaching pairs discuss how each felt using the table of questions on the Lab of Grace Debrief handout
Welcome audience to share 1-5 comments about the experience.
Have audience write down what they learned from this segment of the presentation in their notebook.

6. Stage 2: Examine the Data
Time: 45 minutes (2/2 slide)
Resources Required: Participant Manual pages 35-39
Purpose: Introduce Stage 2 and Stage 3 background
Lecture Notes:
Activity Notes:
Jigsaw the two areas.

7. LUNCH
Time: 45 minutes (1/1 slide)

8. Preparing for Session IV!
Team Planning Time (1/6 – total 40 min.)

9. Learning Opportunity between Sessions III and IV
Meet with your SMART School Improvement Leadership Team to conduct:
Between Steps #4 and #5: Implement Plans
Step #5: Analyze and Refocus
Meet with your SMART Coach
Prepare the Story of Your SMART Journey to share with your colleagues in Session IV.
Time: 15 minutes (2/6 slides – 3 min)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, Overview Page 9
Purpose: Set expectations for between sessions work
Lecture Notes:
Move through the slides in preparation for their team time.
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10. Your SMART Journey
Purpose: To share what has been accomplished and to deepen the learning of all participants based on district teams’ application of the SMART School Improvement Process. Activity Overview: Mixed groups will take turns sharing their team’s story or stories as it relates to their project work back in their districts. Organize / plan your approach
Time: 45 minutes (3/6 slides)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, Process Tab, page 90; calendars
Purpose: Set expectations for final session work
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11. Sharing Your Journey - Suggestions
Share your SMART goal tree
What data supported the selection of this goal?
Share your ACTION plan
How did you determine the strategies?
Describe the professional learning aligned to your plan.
Share your improvement data
What formative data have you been looking at to determine if your plan is working?
What are the data telling you?
What adjustments have you made as a result of the data?
Time: 45 minutes (4/6 slides)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, Process Tab, page 90; calendars
Purpose: Set expectations for final session work
Lecture Notes:
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12. Sharing Your Journey - Suggestions
Share what remains to be accomplished
What still needs to be done between now and the end of the year?
How will what you do this spring jumpstart your SMART work next year?
Share your development as a SMART coach
What are your strengths as SMART coaches?
What continue to be your needs as SMART coaches?
Time: 45 minutes (5/6 slides)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, Process Tab, page 90; calendars
Purpose: Set expectations for final session work
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13. Team Planning Time Time: 45 min. (6/6 slides – 40 min.)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, Process Tab, page 90; calendars
Purpose: Getting organized and scheduling
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NOTE TO COACHES: This would be a good time to check in with them to make sure they understand how the Journey presentations will happen. They only need to prepare 1 story but they all have to be prepared to share it. Also, check in with them on scheduling your coaching session if you still need to do that.

14. Energy Break Time: 15 min. Resources Required: Music Purpose: Break
Lecture Notes:
Activity Notes: Play music or use timer (optional). Sound the reminder, 5 minutes before returning.
Energy Break

15. Stage 3: Identify the Need for Change
Time: 45 minutes (1/3 slides)
Resources Required: Participant Manual pages 35-39
Purpose: Introduce Stage 2 and Stage 3 background
Lecture Notes:
Activity Notes:
Jigsaw the two areas.

16. Change…
“People don’t mind making change, they simply hate to ‘be changed’”
Enlightened Leadership
Time: 5 min. (2/3 slides)
TABLE Partner share: Think about a change in your life. What makes change easy? Difficult? What phases do you go through when you are in a change process?

17. Create a 5 min. Mini-Lesson
Stage 2: Explore the Data #1 = Coaching Language p #2 = Tools to Engage teams p. 36 – 37 Stage 3: Identify Need for Change #3 = Coach to break resistance p. 38 #4 = Coach through limiting beliefs p. 38 #5 = Coach through interpretations p. 38 #6 = Coach through assumptions p. 39

18. Feedback Forms Individually complete your feedback form. OR
Go to smartlearningsystems.com and click on the link to today’s survey
Tidy your table.
Thank you for your time and energy today!
Time: 15 min. (1/2 slides – 15 min.)
Purpose: Closure
Lecture Notes:
Activity Notes: Have participants complete the Survey Monkey Feedback form before they leave.

19. Building capacity for student-focused, goal directed learning
Thank you
SMART People!
Time: End of Day
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual
Purpose: Show as the participants leave the room
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Building capacity for student-focused, goal directed learning