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Move #5: Establish How You’ll Work as a Principal and Coach Team

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Move #5: Establish How You’ll Work as a Principal and Coach Team

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Reflection Questions:
1. Why do you think it's important to have a strong relationship with your school leadership?
2. How will you work to establish a strong principal and coach team at the beginning of the year? Middle? End?
Resources:

Behaviors of School Leader and Coach in Providing Pressure and Support: Click Here

Coach and Principal Agreement - Click Here

Additional Guiding Questions in Establishing a Coach and Principal Agreement - Click Here & Click Here

Norms for Sharing Our Coaching Work - Click Here

Principal, Coach, Teacher Agreements - Click Here

Agenda for a 30 Minute Principal and Coach Meeting - Click Here

Read:
Read Move #5 (for free) on Corwin's Website: Click Here

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Move #8: Plan How You Will Message and Market Coaching

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Move #8: Plan How You Will Message and Market Coaching

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Reflection Questions:

1. What message does your staff need to fully understand the coaching role?

2. How will you share your vision for coaching so that it will get the best response from your staff?

3. What opportunities can you create from the staff to discuss coaching and their questions about it?

4. How can you "layer" your marketing approach to help coaching remain at the forefront of everyone's mind?

Resources:

Casting Your Coaching Vision: Click Here

What Coaching Is and Is NOT: Click Here

Marketing Coaching Artifacts: Sample 1, Sample 2, Sample 3

Coaching Activity Board: Click Here (Page 48)

Example Launching Coaching Slide Deck: Click Here

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Principal Sharing What Coaching Is and Isn't

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Reflection Questions:

1. What does "being visible" mean to you?

2. How will you foster relationships by being visible in the first few weeks of school?

3. Why do you believe "trust" is essential in a coaching partnership?

Resources:

Create a Welcome Letter or Video: Example - Click Here

5 Factors of Building Trust - Click Here

Trust Builders and Trust Busters - Click Here

Read:

Read Move #1 (for free) on Corwin's Website: Click Here

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Student-Centered Coaching in the First Few Weeks of School

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Move #6: Decide How You Will Organize Your Coaching Schedule

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Move #6: Decide How You Will Organize Your Coaching Schedule

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Reflection Questions:

1. As you think about this school year, what's your vision for your coaching schedule?

2. How will you be strategic in organizing your schedule to get the most out of coaching?

Resources:

Sample Coaching Schedule #1 - Click Here

Sample Coaching Schedule #2 - Click Here & Click Here

60/40 Rule of Thumb - Click Here

*Disclaimer: These sample schedules are from experienced coaches who have already established trusting relationships and built a culture for coaching at their schools. Overtime, aim to have your schedule reflect these samples.

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Student-Centered Coaching Cycles - Diane Sweeney

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One way to provide the necessary support is by organizing coaching into cycles to create a structure that allows for sustained collaboration over a period of time.

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Move #9 Work With the Principal to Advocate for Coaching

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Move #9 Work With the Principal to Advocate for Coaching

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Reflection Questions:
1. How comfortable are you asking the principal to advocate for coaching?
2. How will you engage your principal in conversations around advocating for your coaching?
3. How can you and your principal share messages about coaching support and success authentically in large and small groups as well as with individual teachers?
Resources:

Questions for Building a Shared Understanding of Coaching: Click Here

Language for Setting Expectations for Participating in Coaching: Click Here

Checklist for Getting Coaching Cycles Up and Running: Click Here

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Move #12: Invite Teachers Into Coaching Cycles

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Move #12: Invite Teachers Into Coaching Cycles

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Reflection Questions:
1. What excites you about extending an invitation to teachers to participate in a coaching cycle?
2. What items in your schedule need to be removed or minimized in order to have the time to engage in coaching cycles?
3. What steps will you take to get teachers engaged in your first round of coaching cycles?
Resources:

Steps for Enrolling Teachers in Coaching Cycles: Click Here

Checklist for Creating a Coaching Cycle Schedule: Click Here

Sample Coaching Cycle Interest Survey: Click Here

Language for Partnering with a Teacher: Click Here

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Coach Introducing Herself to Her Students (1).mp4

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Move #13: Leverage a Variety of Structures to Build Momentum

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Move #13: Leverage a Variety of Structures to Build Momentum

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Reflection Questions:

1. What structures have you experienced or used to organize coaching work?

2. Where are you seeing openings for co-planning lessons with teachers?

3. Who could you encourage to engage in a "mini" or "full" coaching cycle?

Resources:

Leveraging Unit Planning into Coaching Cycles: Click Here

Using Mini Cycles to Take Student Centered Coaching Deeper: Click Here

Co-Planning Objectives: Click Here

Protocol for Co-Planning Units: Click Here

Language for Gaining Clarity in Co-Planning: Click Here

Observation Planning Tool: Click Here

Coaching Questions: Click Here

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Launching Tools

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The following toolkit is a companion to our new book, Moves for Launching a New Year of Student-Centered Coaching. Included are a variety of tools and artifacts that will guide you through the first weeks of school.

We have provided the tools in a variety of formats. For example, if it is meant to serve as a place to take notes, you'll find an option to create a template. Please note that to use this feature, you'll need to be logged into a Google account. Otherwise, we'll offer links to PDFs, videos, etc.

We also invite you to join our mailing list so that you can stay up-to-date on new resources that we create to support the implementation of Student-Centered Coaching.

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Join our mailing list Subscribe TOOLS: Moves for Launching a New Year of Student-Centered Coaching The following toolkit is a companion to our new book, Moves for Launching a New Year of Student-Centered Coaching. Included are a variety of tools and artifacts that will guide you through the first weeks of school.

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Move #3: Offer Mentoring Support to New Teachers

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Move #3: Offer Mentoring Support to New Teachers

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Reflection Questions:

1. How do you envision providing mentoring support to new teachers?

2. What is your best first step for supporting new teachers?

Resources:

Principles of Adult Learning Theory: Click Here

Survey for New Client - Click Here

Beginning of Year Survey - Click Here (Pages 42 & 43)

Get to Know Survey - Click Here

Three Strategies for Helping New Teachers Develop Successful Lessons - Click Here

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Move #7: Be Thoughtful About Who You Will Engage With First

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Move #7: Be Thoughtful About Who You Will Engage With First

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Reflection Questions:
1. How do you decide who to engage first as you move into deeper coaching?
2. What strategies will you use to engage a variety of teachers as you get ready for deeper coaching?
Resources:

What Good Coaches Do: Partnership Approach & Principles: Click Here

Who Goes First - Click Here

Moving from an "Opt In" to an "All In" Coaching Model - Click Here

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Schedule a daily 30 to 60 minutes in your coaching schedule for self-guided professional learning and reflection.

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Watch, Read, and Reflect on 1 "Move" (15 moves total) each day during your first 15 days as a Reading Coach.

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Free Webinar from Corwin: Launch a Successful New Year of Student-Centered Coaching

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Launch a Successful New Year of Student-Centered Coaching

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Featuring strategies from the newly released guide Moves for Launching a New Year of Student-Centered Coaching, this session will support coaches, principals, and district leaders to: - Connect with new and returning teachers - Increase student engagement and build classroom community - Build strong principal and coach partnerships

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Establish a coaching notebook to store your ideas, reflections, and goals - digital or paper!

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Reflection Questions:
1. What role do teacher leaders play in your school?
2. Who are the teacher leaders you can tap into for this cohort?
3. How can you empower these teacher leaders to advocate and support your coaching work?
Resources:

What Makes a Strong Teacher Leader: Click Here

Student-Centered Coaching at Norwood Elementary: Click Here

Blog - Spotlight on Success Norwood Elementary: Click Here

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Student-Centered Coaching at Shades Cahaba Elementary

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Reflection Questions:

1. How will you know when someone is ready for coaching?

2. What are some settings where you will listen for openings? 3. Are there any specific teachers or teams you would like to connect with so you can build bridges toward coaching?

4. How can you use student evidence or data to foster conversations that create openings?

Resources:

Self Assessing Your Behaviors at the Conversational Level:  Click Here

If / Then Chart for Leveraging Openings: Click Here

Scenarios for Asking Clarifying Questions: Click Here

General Coaching Sentence Stems: Click Here

Communication Profile: Click Here

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Move #14: Plan How You Will Measure Your Impact

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Move #14: Plan How You Will Measure Your Impact

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Reflection Questions:

1. Why is it important to measure impact?

2. How will you work with the principal to create a plan for measuring your impact?

Resources:

Sample Coaching Trackers: Click Here (pages 5-8 & 21-24)

Results Based Coaching Tool & Note Catcher: Click Here & Click Here

Reflection on Coaching Survey: Click Here

Status of the Faculty Spreadsheet: Click Here

Student Centered Coaching Podcast: Click Here

8 Key Coaching Skills Checklist: Click Here

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Measuring the Impact of Student-Centered Coaching

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Move #15: Use Partnership Agreements to Set Norms With Teachers

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Move #15: Use Partnership Agreements to Set Norms With Teachers

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Reflection Questions:
1. How will you establish shared norms and expectations with teachers as you get ready for more formal coaching?
2. How will you respond to misconceptions about coaching?
3. How can the principal reinforce the importance of coaching?
Resources:

Language for Getting Ready for Coaching in the Classroom: Click Here

Partnership Agreements for a Coaching Cycle: Click Here

Options for Coaching in the Classroom: Click Here

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Getting Ready for a Coaching Cycle: Sixth Grade

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Diane Sweeney Consulting
Elena Aguilar
Bright Morning Team
Jim Knight
Instructional Coaching Group
Corwin
Learning Forward
Allison Peterson
Gretchen Schultek Bridgers
Casey Watts
Kim Hillis
Ms. Houser
Sherry St. Clair
Julie Wright
Melanie Matthew

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Check out Melanie Matthews Digital Coaching Forms from The FORMula 101: Must Have Forms for Instructional Coaches! The link will require a "free" sign-up to view the documents.

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Write down your "initial" coaching vision in 3-5 statements. What do you want coaching to look like and feel like? Post your coaching vision in a place that is visible to you everyday! Add and refine this coaching vision as you learn/experience more about coaching. Click Here and Click Here and Click Here (page 9) for resources to guide you in creating a coaching vision.

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If possible, set up your coaching space before teachers return from summer break. There are some helpful tips and ideas - Click Here & Click Here.

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Reflection Questions:

1. What does "joining team meetings" mean to you?

2. How will you tap into existing team meetings to build relationships?

Resources:

Listening to your own Listening - Click Here

How am I as a Listener? Self Assessment - Click Here

Listen Tour Questions - Click Here

Language for Exploring a Resource/Curriculum - Click Here

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Welcome to Student-Centered Coaching: The Podcast, where we sit down with coaches and teachers to explore how they are supporting student learning. Our hope is that through sharing these stories, we can all grow together.

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7. Joy Casey | Student-Centered Coaching: The Podcast

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Diane and Brandon are joined by Joy Casey, an instructional coach from Denver, CO. Joy discusses her role this year in a brand new building. While Joy is a very experienced coach, she has the opportunity to share with our listeners what it's like to be somewhere new again.

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Move #4: Support Teachers to Build Classroom Community

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Move #4: Support Teachers to Build Classroom Community

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Reflection Questions:

1. Why is it important to coach into building classroom community?

2. How will you support teachers to build a strong classroom community in the first few weeks of school?

Resources:

How Can I Help Teachers Build Community in the Classroom - Click Here

Coaching to Support Classroom Community Questions - Click Here

Noticing & Naming Tool: Click Here

Learner-Friendly Environment Checklist: Click Here

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How Do We Engage Students in Building Community?

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Resources: Click Here

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Instructional Coaching Group - Jim Knight

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Instructional Coaching Group - Jim Knight

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Instructional Coaching Group Resource Library: Click Here