April 12, 2023

April 12, 2023 Agenda

Topic: The Coach's Role in Systemic Change

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9:00-9:15 Welcome, introductions, overview, upcoming opportunities

• Introductions: Kate, Troy 

• Jim Knight ASCD Virtual Author Talk - today 1:30-3:00

• AIU Flex Space Summit - May 5

• Project Zero conference May 16 - scholarships available!

• Note about May 18 coaches' network meeting

• Save the Dates! Next year's coach network workshops:

  • September 13

  • October 11

  • November 16

  • December 13

  • January 24

  • February 22

  • March 19

  • April 18

  • May 9

9:15-10:15 Change Overview

• The Coach as Change Agent

• Senge: Change Puzzle or download the answer key from PDESAS

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:30 Dynamic Learning Project: Systems Change

1. Read the introduction and overviews of each change challenge.

2. Choose one of the five challenges to dig into. Move to the assigned table group for that challenge.

3. Complete the Four C's organizer to guide your thinking as you dig into the challenge with your table mates.

• Four C's Visible Thinking Routine from Project Zero

• What other ideas from others at your table might be helpful to you?

• What can you do between now and the end of the school year? Or before the beginning of 2023-24? What is your first step? What connection do you need to make with school leaders?

Resource for your professional reading: Want Transformational Teachers? Here's Why Change Starts with Coaches (Edsurge article)
Four Key Elements of Transformational Coaching:

1. Focuses the coach on growing teacher mindset as well as skillset

2. Begins with teacher goals in order to address larger system goals

3. Sets the coach up for success

4. Makes coaching visible

11:30-11:45 Reflect - how are the resources shared this morning useful in your management of change in your school?

11:45-1:00 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Change Game

• (Rules for teachers to project)

2:00-2:15 Debrief

• Please complete the Post-Simulation Reactions Poll

• How did the change game parallel resistance to change in your school?

• How would it have been different with a coach in place?

• To what extent was Kotter's model for leading change applied to the task?

  • Establishing a sense of urgency

  • Forming a powerful guiding coalition

  • Forming a vision

  • Communicating the vision

  • Empowering others to act on the vision

  • Planning for and creating short-term wins

  • Consolidating improvements and producing still more change

  • Institutionalizing new approaches

• Want to do this in a workshop? Link to the full article from the Journal of Change Management.