1. Coaching: A School Team Approach

2. What is the common purpose of coaching? To partner with teachers and each other in order to: increase teacher effectiveness and impact student achievement.

3. Quick Write Wise teaching comes from a community in practice. ~ Lucy Calkins It takes a village to raise a child. ~ African Proverb

4. Goals What is a coach? What is the connection between coaching and professional development? What can I expect from a coach?

5. What is a Coach? An instructional coach partners with teachers to help them incorporate research-based instructional practices into their teaching. ~ Dr. Jim Knight

6. What is the Role of a Coach? To help teachers transfer what they learn about new research based practices to their classrooms Help establish a safe environment in which teachers can strive to improve their practices without fear of negative criticism or evaluation

7. Help teachers develop leadership skills with which they can support the work of their colleagues Provide whole group, small-group and individual professional development sessions for teachers Adapted from Neufeld and Roper, Educational Matters, 2003

8. What About Professional Development? Nothing has promised so much and has been so frustratingly wasteful as the thousands of workshops and conferences that led to no significant change in practice when teachers returned to their classroom. Fullan, “The New Meaning of Educational Change,” 1991

9. What research says about coaching…

10. Sustained, ongoing, job-embedded professional development…with follow-up support!

11. What Works Best With Adult Learners? Collaboration with dialogue Participant driven: CHOICE Problem centered/inquiry based Action oriented Reflective practice TRUST

12. Types of Title I Coaches 2010-11 Math K-5 Literacy K-5 SIOP K-5

13. Other Types Secondary SIOP (6-8) Literacy (9-12) K-2 Literacy (Local)

15. Expectations for Coaches Build TRUSTing relationships Maintain Confidentiality Provide NON-evaluative experiences and feedback

16. The Essentials for ALL Coaches… Collaborate with administrators, teachers, each other Communicate with administrators, teachers, each other

17. How do you envision us working together for the good of our school …and all students?

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19. What’s In It For Me? Handout

20. A successful coaching program will make an unmistakable positive impact on learning and teaching. ~ Dr. Jim Knight

21. What Factors Increase the Success of Coaching Programs? handout

22. Together we can… meet the needs of EACH and EVERY Student!

24. Resources Humans: Coach(es) Knight, J. (2007). Instructional Coaching: Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

25. Quick Write Wise teaching comes from a community in practice. ~ Lucy Calkins It takes a village to raise a child. ~ African Proverb

26. Reflection Reflections