May 13 2021

May 13, 2021 Agenda

1:00-1:15 - Updates

  • TOMORROW - Statewide instructional coaches' collaboration "A Diamond in the Rough" Registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kde2trzIrEtIJx3csxArTk3m8y8Q3lcAk

  • Save the dates for 2021-22 Instructional Coaches' workshops (at AIU - hopefully!) 9:00-2:30

    • September 15

    • October 12

    • November 16

    • December 14

    • January 20

    • February 24

    • March 22

    • April 21

    • May 17

  • Have teachers who would be good presenters for breakout sessions at a regional virtual PD opportunity for back-to-school 2021-22? Or would you be interested in presenting? Please submit their (or your) name email address, topic area, and supervisor contact on this Google Form.

    • NO PRESSURE OR OBLIGATION. We will reach out before the end of the school year to gauge interest and availability.

1:15-2:30 - Focus on lessons learned from 2020-21 to support future teaching and learning

Link to Slides

Part 1: Enduring Practices from Remote Teaching

  • Direct instruction

  • Your task: jot down one-word takeaways that you would like to promote in your school(s) as enduring practices (and other ideas, too!)

  • Populate a word cloud in Answer Garden (enter each word separately)

  • Optional - for further reading: Edutopia article


Part 2: Is SAMR dead?

  • Read article from Tech & Learning by Kecia Ray: "Is SAMR Dead?" FIND IT HERE

  • Breakout group discussion

    • From your experience, have teachers successfully integrated technology to the degree that we can unanimously agree we have redefined learning? (Think of Redefinition as the top two levels of Bloom's Taxonomy - teachers are designing learning tasks in which students are using technology to evaluate some aspect of the content and to demonstrate their learning through creating something previously inconceivable without the technology.)

    • To what extent can SAMR apply to the role of the student to facilitate a personal learning pathway? (According to the article, this practice would empower the student to identify whether they are substituting, augmenting, modifying, or redefining their learning tasks through the use of technology.) To what extent are teachers ready to move in this direction?


Part 3: 5 Ways Ed-Tech will Transform PD Post-COVID

  • Direct instruction

  • Your task: take one idea from the direct instruction segment or think of one original idea of how your PD for teachers will be transformed in the future. Share your idea on a slide in our slide deck, starting with slide # .

  • Peruse everyone's ideas (slides 17-36). Feel free to unmute or type in the chat: What ideas would you like to hear more about?

  • Optional - for further reading: District Administration article


Part 4: Coaching for Equity Chapter 1

  • The chapter introduces the concept of transformational coaching

  • Transformational coaching defined: the process of partnering with someone to support them through a significant change that helps them grow, develop, and ultimately “rewrite their reality.” The underlying premise behind transformational coaching is that you will examine everything that could be in service of that transformation. It includes a holistic examination of a teacher's assumptions about education, assumptions about people, and assumptions about the process that may be a catalyst or hindrance to significant change.

  • Use the visible thinking routine to reflect on your takeaways from the chapter. Record your ideas on the Padlet and read/comment on others' takeaways.

    • I see...(what I see in the chapter that is in place)

    • I think...(ideas from the chapter that I think are possible or that I think should change in my coaching)

    • I wonder...(questions I have to move forward)


Part 5: Closing Activity: Rose, Bud, Thorn

  • Reflect on your coaching year

  • What is one Rose (success)? One Bud (opportunity)? One Thorn (challenge?)

  • Summarize in Jamboard



We want to thank you for your continued participation in and contribution to this network. We hope you have found success this year and continue to grow in your practice. Enjoy a well-deserved and restful summer! As always, reach out if we can support you in any way.

See you in the fall!


  • Heather & Kevin



Many teachers acknowledge they are not going to put away the technology they have now become accustomed to having it in their classrooms, but they are also asking for more PD and resources