December 15, 2022
WORKSHOP IS NOW VIRTUAL
ZOOM LINK SENT VIA EMAIL - 10:00am start
Agenda
10:00 AM - NOON: Creating structure for our coach/administrator joint meeting in February
Work groups - develop content and activities for topics of admin/coach meeting:
(List of topics/themes TBD)
Notes from planning in November (includes images of easel pad sheets) Text was grabbed from image using Google Keep - minor cleanup required
NOON-1:00 PM Lunch break
1:00- 2:30 PM:
Balancing the duties of coaching -
Multiple perceptions of the duties of coaches - how do you clarify? (Business Casual activity)
Inspiration for this activity: Ending the "Business Casual" Approach to Evaluating Instructional Coaches
We frequently work with Killion's 10 Roles of Coaches - here is a different way to consider your work: Five key roles of an instructional coach that teachers, school leaders, counselors and librarians consistently note as being of high value and importance in their work with coaches:
Listener
Advocate
Content Area Expert/Connector
Partner in Learning
Data Collector
The Four Productivity Pillars - each table group brainstorm two tools or strategies for each Pillar:
Task management: how you collect and organize what needs to be done.
Prioritization: how you decide what to work on first.
Time management: how to structure your day to get the most done.
Focus: how to reduce distractions to maximize the goals accomplished.
Two tools for prioritizing:
Eisenhower Matrix
"I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent."
Eat That Frog!
According to Mark Twain, “if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long.”
Source: 6 Work Prioritization Tools, and the Art of Inclusive Prioritization
Developing coach leadership
Eisenhower Matrix
The Eisenhower matrix works by listing all activities and projects you feel you have to do, and placing them in one of the 4 quadrants.
Quadrant 1: urgent and important
Quadrant 2: important, but not urgent
Quadrant 3: not important, but urgent
Quadrant 4: neither important nor urgent
When we know which activities are important and which are urgent, we can manage to clear enough time to do what’s needed - as opposed to focusing on urgent activities (that aren’t as important). We then find ourselves moving from firefighting to growth.
Eat That Frog!
Your frog is your biggest, most important task, and the item on your to-do list you have no motivation to do. At all. So, how do you go about it? Simple; you only move on to other tasks when you’re done with the frog!
For an overview of your tasks, and similarly to the Eisenhower grid, you can divide your to-do list in 4 categories:
Things you don’t want to do, but need to 🐸
Things you want to do and need to
Things you want to do, but don’t need to
Things you don’t want to do, and don’t need to
So what do you do when you have more than one important thing to achieve for the day? You tackle the biggest one first.