October 11, 2023 workshop agenda

9:00-9:15 - Opening activity - Table talk: What is going well in your coaching?

9:15-9:45 - Prioritize and determine topics for 2023-2024 network workshops

Suggestions/requests from September:

• Review of coaching models - input from coaches who have used them (2)

• Data-driven decision making

• Retrieval practices to build long-term knowledge

• Addressing intense/varied learning needs (IEP, ELL, etc.)  post-pandemic

• Mini conference - coach idea share (3)

• Ideas for school/district/network wide learning opportunities/different PD structures (book studies, PLC, lunch-n-learn, etc.) (2)

• Student engagement strategies that can be modeled in PD (2)

• Using technology tools we have in different ways

• Giving effective in-the-moment feedback to teachers

• Building buy-in and trust

• Ongoing book study

• Field trips to business/higher ed/etc - to understand what students need for after graduation

• Problem of practice - peer collaboration and support

• Goal setting - coach/individual teacher/building/district

• Coaching cycles and strategies - share resources and best practices (3)

• Instructional best practices

• Discussion protocols

• Adult learning theory (3)

• AI tools for teachers (2)

• Time management for coaches and others - organizational tools

• How to differentiate coaching with different types of people and different types of teams

• Coaching teachers who do not want to be coached

• Urban pedagogy

9:45-10:15 - Today's focus: Communication/interpersonal skills/coaching conversations

• The WHY - Video and VIP/MVP

  • In this Partnership Principles video clip, Jim Knight examines the great thinkers in the area of dialogue to underscore the importance of conversation in all of our interactions. If we want real change in education or in anything else, we need to change the conversation.

  • Source: https://instructionalcoaching.webflow.io/blog/partnership-principle-4-dialogue-turning-contact-into-connection 

  • As you watch the video, what are some VIPs (Very Important Points)? Discuss as a table group and come to consensus on one MVP (Most Valuable Point).  Write on chart paper and post around the room.

10:15-10:30 - Break

10:30-11:30 - The HOW - Quotation Mingle. HOW do coaches incorporate effective communication into their practice?

Quotations and sources

• Read your quote and make notes on what stands out to you and how the information in your quotation can impact coaching

• Group all like-colored quotations together to discuss - everyone "on the same page"

• Mingle: talk to someone with each different quote. 

  • Read your quote to your partner. 

  • Partners discuss the quote and both partners' interpretations

  • Switch and repeat with the other partner

  • Repeat until you have "mingled" with four other people

    • RULES: 

      • You may only partner with one other person at a time

      • You must keep possession of your paper the entire time.

• Return to your table group. What were your takeaways from the quotes you heard and discussed? How can coaches incorporate effective communication into their practice?

11:30-12:45 - Lunch on your own

12:45-2:00 - Reflective Listening

• Part 1: Reflective Listening overview

• Part 2: Application of Reflective Listening

  • Think about a challenge or situation in your personal or professional life that you will be willing to share with someone else.

  • Frame your situation in your mind by freewriting for 3 minutes.

  • Find a partner to apply the reflective listening steps.

    • Assign Partner A and Partner B. First round, B is the "sharer" and A is the "reflective listener."

    • Repeat with Partner A as sharer and B as reflective listener

    • Reflective Listening Cheat Sheet -  reflective listening steps and prompts/questions if the conversation stalls

  • Debrief - Discuss with a new partner:

    • To what extent did you actually practice reflective listening? 

    • What was it like as a listener?

    • What was it like as the speaker?

    • How will you use reflective listening as a coach?

2:00-2:30 - Summary, wrap up, reflection

• Strategies used/modeled today:

  • MVP/VIP

  • Quotation mingle

  • Reflective listening

• What did you gain from today that you can use in your coaching?

Next month's topic: habits and systems that lead to goal achievement

Any problems of practice? Email to heather.moschetta@aiu3.net at least one week before November meeting.