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Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching

Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching. Christina Steinbacher-Reed. Welcome. Collins Type 1 Writing – Describe your current role. How does your role impact others on your team? Minimum of three lines. Community Builder. Virtual Jigsaw

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Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching

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  1. Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching Christina Steinbacher-Reed

  2. Welcome • Collins Type 1 Writing – Describe your current role. How does your role impact others on your team? • Minimum of three lines

  3. Community Builder • Virtual Jigsaw • You each have a piece of a larger picture. • Find others with similar pieces, introduce yourself, and form a team. • Put your pieces together and discuss the following: • How does your role compare to the role of the team members in your picture? • Introduce your new friend to the larger group

  4. What is the Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching? PIIC is . . . PIIC is NOT . . . • Support for what you are already doing • A network of support for school-based staff developers • Low-to-no cost • A capacity building effort for Gr. 4-12 • A competing initiative • A new program • Costly

  5. Rethinking ‘Coach’ • Full-time instructional coaches are ideal, but… • Look at coach as a verb, not a noun • Coaches may include: teacher leaders, librarian, curriculum coordinator, reading specialists, department chairs, etc. • Coaches can not include: teacher evaluators • Designated coaches must be provided with some level of release time

  6. PIIC coaches provide a professional development support system for teachers focused on improving classroom practices, student engagement, and student achievement by applying a specific set of practices. The PIIC coaching model reflects consensus about what constitutes effective teacher professional development:  ongoing, job-embedded, side-by-side assistance to teachers based on the needs of those teachers and their students.

  7. Expectations for PIIC Coaches • Attend PIIC state conference if selected • Attend monthly coaches meetings at the IU • Provide and facilitate onsite PD for teachers around according to PIIC’s four elements of coaching • May attend Penn Literacy Network (PLN 1) course (optional) • Refer to “Expectations for Coaches” for additional expectations

  8. Four Elements of PIIC Coaching • 1 - One-on-one and small group support for teachers and other school leaders (Before, during, after model) • 2 – Gathering and Using Data • 3 - Improving Adolescent Literacy Across the Content Areas • 4 - Reflective and non-evaluative practices

  9. How does this support what we’re already doing? What is our instructional framework? How do we teach teachers to implement this framework? • Learning Focused Schools • Reading Apprenticeship • Balanced Literacy • Standards Aligned System • Penn Literacy Network • Other evidenced based literacy framework • Professional development • B-D-A Coaching (modeling, co-planning, co-teaching, providing feedback) • Professional learning communities • Data analysis • Networking • Reflective practices

  10. Benefits of Joining PIIC • On-site, job-embedded coaching support for designated coaches • Monthly IU meetings for coaches • Four slots to participate in PLN 1 at Luzerne County IU (4.5 graduate credits from Penn) • Support for transitioning towards Common Core • High quality training that can be turned-around in your own district for

  11. District’s Investments • Travel expenses (mileage and meal) and release time to attend state conferences in State College (required) • Provide release time for coaches to receive job-embedded, site-based coaching support (required) • Travel costs (mileage only) to attend optional PLN courses at Luzerne County IU (optional)

  12. IU Coaching Meeting Dates • Oct. 13 (W) – Meeting the needs of adult learners, understanding change, and intro to coaching • November 8 (C) – Coaching, Literacy Across Content, Data Analysis, Reflective Practices (4 Elements) • Dec. 7 (W) • Jan. 19 (C) • Feb. 14 (W) • May

  13. PIIC Statewide Conference • Held at State College • January 9-11 • May 2, 3, 4

  14. PIIC Levels of Support

  15. What is PLN? • Penn Literacy Network (University of Penn Graduate School) • Series of graduate courses focusing on literacy K-12 • 40 years in development • Can be the basis for a curriculum framework or just provide participants with literacy best practices

  16. What is the relationship between PIIC and PLN? • PIIC is the how (coaching), PLN is the what (curriculum

  17. Penn Literacy Network Course 1 Dates • Must have a team of four (1 admin, 1 coach, 2 teachers) • Held during school day at Luzerne County IU • December 7 • February 1 • March 1 • April 12 • May 8.

  18. Contact • creed@iu17.org • Twitter - christina_coach • Cell - 570-560-7865

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