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Answer to no coaches. Build a Cadre. Although we have coaches we have also started teaming with IUPUI in Indianapolis to provide PD for a Cadre of teachers. Those teachers can now help support their peers.

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Are your coaches site based or districtwide based?

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How did you get started with delivering online pd?

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Smekens coaching pd

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Coaching ELL Ts to use coding activities to support ELLs!

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Did you use a specific program for your digital story telling?

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What if your district has no coaches and just a director of digital learning and a director of tech with IT people? Where is the best place to start with supporting teachers?

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Coaches share their calendar on the district's website so that anyone can see where they are and schedule a meeting with them.

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Best resources are each other. Taking time to reflect and plan is key.

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This has been a great session!  Can you tell us more about how you structure your Wednesday Coach PD?

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We have a instructional toolbox utilized by the district which includes instructional practice videos, how to's, examples and reflective questions. Each approach is aligned to the instructional practice rubric.  Additionally, we have district support IT assigned to each campus.

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Where can we learn more about digital storytelling?

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Planning & Development | Special School District of St. Louis County

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Special School District of St. Louis County

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Question  - What do you do with teachers that are still resistant to coaching? The ones that won't become fellows and are the "I don't have time for that"?

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Sweeney- Coaching Moves

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Being the loan e coach in a district of 13500 students!

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"Um no thanks, I don't need your help"

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Teachers do not understand the students. Tried to use technology that is not culturally relevant. Teachers used a pilgrim game to talk about colonisation from a colonizer's pov.  Pushing the point further of why colonisation was horrible.

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How many teachers does a coach work with at one time?

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Not engaging in argument presentation and the principal comes in and starts an argument with 2 of the teachers.

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What platform do you use for your online trainings?

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Wanting you to do their job instead of learning how to use the technology to support the classroom.

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Having a teacher say that she did not need to teach a standard because the students learned it last year.

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Coaching didn't change practice, just transferred worksheet to electronic format.

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Coaching didn't change practice, just transferred worksheet to electronic format.

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Coaches in other content areas (literacy coaches in particular) who think technology is the tool of the devil and direct their coachees not to use tech at all

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Coaching didn't change practice, just transferred worksheet to electronic format.

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Teaching a tech lesson planner and teachers freaking out that it was required!

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Negative Nancy

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Tech session and the tech doesn’t work. Hard to promote blended learning when the app/internet isn’t connecting. Or when the tech department does an update that’s blocks what you need and doesn’t tell you that the update was coming the day before the PD. 😢

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Admin not being onboard - that's why they hired you!

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Spending a ton of time and efforts to change their instruction - looks successful- then I leave and they go back to the "old" ways of doing things.

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People have to leave my workshops because we have NO SUBS!

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No one communicating during pd. Staring at you crazy

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Not wanting to change what a they’ve done for years

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Instructional coaching Jim Knight

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Co-teaching with a teacher who has horrible classroom management : (

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Having to run a PD after staff had just been informed that the media specialist had died

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Coaches sitting silently observing my teaching and taking notes- being an evaluator without being a learning partner

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"I'm too old to do this"

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I assumed participants were more proficient and experienced with the digital tools than they actually were....

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When you realize the tool you are using isn’t ready for prime time and you can’t answer the questions  being asked.

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Learning network implementation

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Curriculum and PD in Canvas.

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Alisha Foor - those that are there because the "have to be" which is annoying...they refuse to open their minds even though they are in the session...

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People ask me to FIX tech more than help with instruction

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Building a foundation of trust with teachers when new to the district

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complaining about learning new things

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Having teacher call out sick EVERY time I was supposed to come in and coteach with him

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Canceling sessions &  I need this program yesterday

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teacher tried something 1 time and it didn't work, so she wouldn't attempt it again

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crickets

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When you’re doing a PD on hyperdocs and the WiFi goes down.

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I was told we had to sing about engines running to my 5th graders for SEL and they are singing Eminem. Seriously?
Great tunes this AM

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Hosting afterschool PD, 8 people show up, 1 of which openly say that "We don't want to learn any of this stuff, we just need the hours", and 6 more nod their heads in agreement.

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Having a teacher say that she didn't need to teach a standard because the students learned it last year.

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having a teacher tell me she was not responsible to know what her students knew...they should know that.

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Having experienced educators resist, resist, resist

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A teacher in an optional blended learning workshop was resistant to blended learning ... the teacher actually started to cry she was so frustrated

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Resistors

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Comments by experienced teachers: "I'm retiring next year." or "This too will pass."

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Complete network fail for half the day! All those great hands on activities out the window.

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" I DONT HAVE TIME"

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Leading a tech tools session and 95% of attendees show up without devices

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coaching actually means do it for me.

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One of my first PD's the tech didn't work, lots of crickets, and one person who would say that Technology is not important and making sure everyone felt the same way

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required high school Pd with very angry HS teachers that claim to “never use tech anyway”

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Having a teacher sign-up for a coaching session and finding out you were put on their sub plans to kill an hour with their kids

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Coaching is a glorified para

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I have a teacher who says she wants coaching but what she really wants is me to teach her student how to use digital tools so she doesn't have to.

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I was giving a tech workshop and the internet crashed... for 2 hours!

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participants derailed the agenda with conversation and complaining

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Teachers not thinking that I have anything to offer them. They are more experienced, they know what I have to share, they don't need to know what I am sharing...

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Tech doesn't work at all

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Resisters, presence of negative dominant narratives and other baggage.

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Not having anyone laugh at my jokes. ;)

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Shawn Churchill. I hit a deer on the way to a 8 hour PD workshop so I had to think quickly how I would re-organize the workshop. The principal went and picked up the deer for deer meat!

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When I was new to coaching - starting to build relationships- this one teacher thought that I was his personal coffee runner....

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When I posted a picture of Stormtroopers for the Jedi council updates. Not the same thing.

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Nobody answering questions or responding!

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Coaching didn't change practice, just transferred worksheet to electronic format.

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They think that coaches are spies!

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"I've got my materials that I use, I don't need to add or change anything"

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People thinking coaching meant how to fix their "broken" technology --- ummmm, NO!

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We tried starting with a positive team building activity and wanted everyone to share what brought them to teaching.  One teacher decided to share that all of the new teachers should get out of the profession while they still have a chance.

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I did a model lesson as a coach for a resistant teacher. The class applauded after the lesson.  Needless to say, she was not happy.

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What is your coaching or PD nightmare?