Leading like a Coach Collaborative Norms in Action

1. picture Leading like a CoachCollaborative Norms in Action © 2009 SCCMS www.sccoalition.org Science Education Leadership Fellows ~ Houston ~ December 2009

2. Framing Questions What are some things we know about professional learning communities? What are some ways in which feedback serves as a tool to promote professional learning? How might leading with collaborative norms contribute to developing professional learning communities?

3. Notebook • Protocols • The Chairs of… What are some resources we have? CLARITY COACHING APPRECIATION OTHER

4. How will we travel together? Three simple agreements… • Take care of yourself. • Take care of each other. • Share your gifts.

5. Sole Mates… • Find your sole mate. • Be A or B. • At the signal, A begins. B listens. • Switch at the signal. • Continue to switch and share as signaled. "What are some things you know about instructional coaching?"

6. Why Coaching? Standards for High-Quality Professional Learning Alexander Russo, Harvard Education Letter (2004) • ongoing • deeply embedded into teachers’ classroom work with children • specific to grade level or academic content • focused on research-based approaches • helps to open classroom doors • creates more collaboration • creates a sense of community among teachers

7. Student Achievement Why Coaching? Improved Instruction Continuous Improvement Foci Engaged School Community Coherent & Viable Curriculum Assessment for Learning Instructional Materials Support Powerfully Prepared Teachers COACHING SC Department of Education Support Research, Best Practice, Data, Standards Vision for Effective Teaching and Learning As modified from the work of the National Science Resources Center of the Smithsonian Institution/National Academies

8. Professional Learning Communities Organizations that have a passion for learning… Covey, 1996 A learning and a teaching institution… Drucker, 1992 Organization expert at dealing with change as a normal part of its work… Fullan 1993 A professional learning community (PLC) is an extended learning opportunity to foster collaborative learning among colleagues within a particular work environment or field. Wikipedia

9. Professional Learning Communities • Shared mission, vision, values, goals • Collaborative culture • Collective inquiry • Action orientation • Continuous improvement • Results orientation • Dufour, DuFour & Eaker, 2008

10. Professional Learning Communities As you consider your own learning community… What are some things you are doing well? How will you know when it happens? What are some things you’d like to improve?

11. What might we do next? Journal Club • What seems to be RIGHT about this article? • As you consider the idea of collaboration, what are some REALITIES to consider? • What needs for growth ought collaborators be REACHING for in your organization? collaborative culture ROBERT J. GARMSTON

12. Tools for Leading Like a Coach: Norms of Collaboration • Pausing to Allow Time for Thought • Paraphrasing to Ensure Deep Listening • Presuming Positive Intentions • Probing to Clarify • Promoting a Spirit of Inquiry • Putting Ideas on the Table/Pulling Them Off • Paying Attention to Self & Others Garmston, 2007

13. Tools for Listening Like a Coach: Pausing to allow time for thought. • Before speaking • After speaking Speaking includes asking questions!

14. Tools for Listening Like a Coach: Paraphrasing “I’m listening & trying to understand”. • After listening • Before speaking

15. Tools for Listening Like a Coach: Practice and Process As you consider feedback you have given or received, what are some things that make it effective?

16. Tools for Leading Like a Coach: Effective Feedback Specific, descriptive feedback that focuses on success and points the way to improvement has a positive effect. Davies, 2002

17. Tools for Questioning Like a Coach: Presuming Positive Intentions Assume the heart of another is in the right place….. • Approachable voice • Plural/Exploratory • Non-judgmental • Engage thinking

18. Tools for Questioning Like a Coach: Probing to Clarify Generalizations Rule Words Vague words Incomplete Comparisons

19. Reflection What new understandings have I gained about leading like a coach? What questions do I still have?

20. Tools for Questioning Like a Coach: Practice and Process What might it mean for you to lead like a coach?

21. Memory Mingle Leading Like a Coach Recollections Connections What connections are you making between instructional coaching and your work? What are some things you know about instructional coaching?

22. Professional Learning Communities As you consider your own learning community… What are some things you are doing well? How will you know when it happens? What are some things you’d like to improve?

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24. Tools for Managing Your Internal Consultant: Promoting a Spirit of Inquiry I… Inquire then advocate Inquiry : Seeking to understand Advocacy: Seeking to be understood

25. Tools for Managing Your Internal Consultant: Putting ideas on the table & Taking them off • Think of all ideas as possibilities • Know when to take ideas off the table “Ideas are the heart of group work.”

26. Tools for Managing Your Internal Consultant: Paying attention to self and others • Balance participation • Restrain impulses to respond • Maintain awareness of the group

27. Tools for Questioning Like a Coach: Practice and Process