Student-Centered Coaching

Outcomes

• Revisit setting rigorous coaching cycle goals
• Develop strategies for coaching teams
• Learn how to facilitate learning labs
• Engage in a planning session with regional groups

What are your hopes and dreams for coaching this year?

Setting Rigorous Goal for Coaching Cycles

Qualities of Effective Goals

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

Webb's Depth of Knowledge

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

Classroom Management

• Think: Whose goal is it?
• Embed it into a goal for learning
• Address classroom management through a shorter cycle

Let's Talk About Engagement...
Emotional Engagement:
based on relationships

Behavioral Engagement:
based on consequences

Intellectual Engagement:
based on a desire to know more

Million Dollar Question: How do we structure what happens in the classroom in a way that is intellectually engaging to students?

If/Thens

• Read the scenarios on pages 2-3 in your handouts
• Discuss how you would address this concern
• Add one more if you'd like

Let's Practice

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

Working with Teams

Option 1: Small Group Coaching Cycles
Purpose: Use the coaching cycle structure with a group of 3-4 teachers

Pros, Cons, and Strategies for Small Group Coaching Cycles

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

Impact Teams

Read chapter 6 from Leading Impact Teams and reflect on how it fits into your role as a teacher leader.

Option 3: Student Centered Learning Labs
Purpose: Create a framework for teachers to get into each other’s classrooms to learn alongside one another.

Student-Centered Learning Labs

Planning Time in Regional Groups

Three Types of Learning Labs

• Model classroom labs
• Peer learning labs
• Student-centered learning labs

Protocol for Student-Centered Learning Labs

Regional Collaboration

• Let's hear from regions who are collaborating
• Let's understand how to faciltiate coaching labs in our region
• Let's plan next steps

What are your next steps based on today's learning?