November 16, 2023 workshop agenda

Focus: Habits and Systems for Continuous Improvement

Zoom link: https://aiu.zoom.us/my/heather.moschetta (Zoom will open at 8:45 on 11/16)

9:00-9:15 Welcome, introductions, overview of the day

• Introductions - Rachel! Anyone else new to our network?

• Congratulations to QVMS - Apple Distinguished School! Opportunity December 1, 7:30-12:00

• Update - Book Study

9:15-9:30 Table group brainstorm - through the lens of instructional coaching, what is a system? What systems are you part of in your role as a coach? List as many systems as possible. (Jamboard for those on Zoom.)

9:30-9:45 Table graffiti: What is a habit? - annotate definitions through a coaching lens (Jamboard frame 3 for those on Zoom)

• What are your coaching habits? Write on index cards (Jamboard frames 4-6 for those on Zoom).

• Sort into three categories: keep, change, toss.

9:45-10:15 Article Study Part 1

• Passage 1: This Coach Improved Every Tiny Thing by 1%

• Passage 2: Forget About Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead.

• Individually read and annotate your passage:

  • What key points summarize the passage?

  • How does the passage relate to coaching?

• Discuss key points and coaching connection with your table group. Prepare for an expert jigsaw with someone who read the other passage.

• 10:30-10:40 Break

• 10:40-11:00 Jigsaw - find a partner who read the other passage.

  • Share key points from both passages.

  • Share the coaching connection in both passages.

  • How do the two passages connect and relate to each other?

• 11:00-11:30 Key takeaways from the article study

  • Write key lines from the passages on sticky notes.

  • Post on chart papers (Jamboard frames 7-13 for those on Zoom)

  • Traffic Lights activity - RED (gives me pause); YELLOW (makes me slow down and think); GREEN (full agreement)

• 11:30-12:45 Lunch on your own

• 1:00-1:45 Application to your coaching

  • ID your goal and systems

    • Examples from James Clear:

      • If you’re a sports coach, your goal might be to win a championship. Your system is the way you recruit players, manage your assistant coaches, and conduct practice.

      • If you’re an entrepreneur, your goal might be to build a million-dollar business. Your system is how you test product ideas, hire employees, and run marketing campaigns.

      • If you’re a musician, your goal might be to play a new piece. Your system is how often you practice, how you break down and tackle difficult measures, and your method for receiving feedback from your instructor.

    • If you are an instructional coach, what is your goal? What systems work towards that goal?

  • Revisit your habits on index cards. Focus on those you would like to toss or change.

  • Discuss and plan: What is something small and in your control where you can start? What small changes can you make that can become habit that will impact those systems that will cause the results?

• 1:45-2:00 Close the loop so that a minor change becomes a habit

  • Why focus on habits and systems rather than goals?

  • Suzanne Dailey (Teach Happier Podcasts): 

    • Close the Loop

    • A Small Shift to Our List

    • What is your first small shift? How can you close the loop so that a minor shift becomes a habit?

    • How does this apply to teachers? How can coaches encourage small incremental changes to make an impact?

  • 2:00-2:30 Reflection and Review

    • Content topics covered today

      • Systems

      • Habits

      • Habits, rather than goals, to impact systems

      • Application to your practice

      • Closing the loop

    • Strategies modeled today:

      • Table graffiti

      • Card sort

      • Article study with common purpose for reading/annotation

      • Jigsaw

      • Traffic lights

    • What are your takeaways? What can you use in your coaching?

    • Looking ahead - next month's topic = Coaching Models

      • Please share any articles that you come across that we can consider for our December article study.