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Advanced Cognitive Coaching: 2013 Retreat

Advanced Cognitive Coaching: 2013 Retreat. ‘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?.

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Advanced Cognitive Coaching: 2013 Retreat

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  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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjgHEctcy0 SCRIPTPLEASE!

  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. 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? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XjgHEctcy0

  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! http://maricopacountyesa.wildapricot.org/training

  16. UPCOMING TRAINING! http://maricopacountyesa.wildapricot.org/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 ChampionAn 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)

  21. 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 goalsestablished by your teachers? • How do you track goal progress and/or completion? • How do you celebrate achieved goals? • How do you set new ones?

  22. 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

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

  24. ENHANCED WALKTHROUGHS • Data reporting at:

  25. 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.

  26. 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 emailed for dialogue.

  27. VIDEO IDEAS – LET’S PLAY! • Inside Mathematics http://insidemathematics.org/index.php/classroom-video-visits/public-lessons • Smart Teaching http://www.smartteaching.org/blog/2008/08/100-awesome-classroom-videos-to-learn-new-teaching-techniques/ • New Teacher Center http://www.youtube.com/user/NewTeacherCenter • Teaching Channel https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/new-teacher-classroom-management • Teacher Tube http://www.teachertube.com/videos.php?cat=all&sort=featured&time=all_time&page=1&seo_cat_name=All • Learnzillion http://learnzillion.com • Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/video?keys=&tid_2=263&tid_1=124 • Edudemic http://www.edudemic.com/2012/08/best-video-sites-for-teachers/ • Note: Teacher Training Videos: http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/top20.html

  28. TEAM TEACHING • Leader + teacher • Coach + teacher • Teacher + teacher • Matching benefits: 1. content2. class management3. discipline4. passion5. data use6. engagement7. rigor

  29. 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

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

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

  32. New QSI Curriculum Supports: ELA and Math Two common repositories for all Leona teachers: 1. Mathwww.leonaqsimath.weebly.com2. ELA www.leonaqsiELA.weebly.com What’s there? Exemplar mapsLesson plansLesson videosResources: Apps, websites, etc.CCSS/PARCC connections

  33. Lesson Plan Template

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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!

  37. 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

  38. YOUR INSIGHTS:

  39. 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)

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

  41. ‘MIH’: YOUR NEXT STEPS

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