Agenda

8:30-9:00am Networking

9:00-10:00 Develop  Morale and PD component of the Coach-Admin meeting

10:00-10:15 BREAK

10:15-11:30  Assemble full agenda/presentation and do a run-through

11:30am-12:45pm  LUNCH (on your own)

12:45--2:15pm 

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

Coaches have many roles that can vary from district to district and school to school (not to mention year to year), often resulting in a lack of role clarity.

The point: Schools and districts need to have ongoing discussions about what coaching is and what they want it to be. That conversation should include questions such as:

1. Are coaches expected to focus on improvement for teachers, students, or both? How will we know if coaches are successful with those groups?

2. What does the research on instructional coaching say about what coaches should do and not do to bring about deep change for teachers and students?

3. How do our coaches’ roles compare to that research?

4. What should we do when our coaches’ roles don’t align with that research?

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

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2:15-2:30 Debrief