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Coaching Role Description:

Purpose: To facilitate conversations using data to drive instructional decisions.

Practices include, but are not limited to:

Collaborating with teachers to analyze formative and summative student achievement data

Assisting teachers with the use of data to improve student learning

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READ - Cathy Toll's - "Coaching Success Self Assessment" (Link below)

DO - We are at the half-way point in the school-year. Complete the self-assessment.

DISCUSS - Talk with your mentor about how you rated each statement. Celebrate all that you have done! Continue to brainstorm with your mentor ways to improve areas you feel could use more attention and improvement in your coaching.

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READ - Pete Hall's handouts on Building Teachers' Capacity for Success

DISCUSS - Discuss The Continuum of Self-Reflection: Coach’s Version (p. 3). Where do the reflective tendencies of your teachers fall on the continuum? Based on a teachers reflective tendencies, what coaching "role" would you assume to promote growth?

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READ - Coaches Help Mine the Data by Joellen Killion

DISCUSS -  Killion states, "Teacher leaders acting as data coaches create a culture that values data as information for improved professional practice." Discuss which of the 5 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES will need extra attention in developing for PLC Teams (teachers) to use data effectively.

DO -  Practice using Killion's Data Analysis Protocol: Guiding Questions (p. 8).

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Killion Coaches Help Mine the Data Article 

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READ - Systematic Data Analysis Guiding Question Card

DISCUSS - Discuss ways to organize data for analysis - How do you organize data? How do your teachers organize data? How does your school organize data? Mentors - Share the examples/ways you organize data.

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READ & DISCUSS - Diane Sweeney's Note-Taking Tool for Sorting Student Work

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READ & DISCUSS - Data Team Meeting Template by Bailey & Jakicic

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DO - Reach out to your Mentor, ELA Coordinator, or a Data Support Specialist to show you the options available for generating and sorting data on Enrich-Testview, NWEA, etc.

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READ - Smart Goals and Action Planning Worksheet by Bailey & Jakicic

DISCUSS - Discuss the strengths/benefits of facilitating a data conversation with teachers using the process outlined on this worksheet.

DO - Practice this process with example student data. Determine the possible causes between the current reality and desired reality (goal).