January 14, 2025 Registration

January 14, 2025 Focus: Building a Culture of Instructional Leadership

Agenda

9:00-9:15 - Happy New Year! Welcome, Updates & Events, Member Directory

Reflect on December session: In December, we focused on coaching heavy/coaching light to make the most of any coaching opportunity. What resonated with you? What have you done with the information?

9:15-9:45 - Coaching Conversations

• Coaching Sentence/Question Stems 

• Michael Bungay Stainer's Seven Questions - The Coaching Habit (book)

  • The Kickstart Question: What's on your mind?

  • The AWE Question: And what else?

  • The Focus Question: What's the real challenge here for you?

  • The Foundation Question: What do you want?

  • The Lazy Question: What do you want?

  • The Strategic Question: If you're saying Yes to this, what are you saying No to?

  • The Learning Question: What was most useful for you?

9:45-10:15 - Characteristics of Leadership

• • Two strong leaders in your life - Characteristic Map

  • Reflection questions - Discuss with your table group: 

    • What are the characteristics of great leadership?

    • What are the similarities between the two leaders?

    • What do you think motivates them to lead?

    • What is it about your leader that you would like to embody too?

10:15-10:30 - Break

10:30-11:30 - Coach leadership self-assessment survey

• • Grouping cards - find your circle match!

    • Practice a coaching conversation:

      • Choose one item or one group from the leadership survey where you scored a 1

      • Both partners: develop questions to guide your conversation with your partner when you become their coach

      • Coach's role: help your partner understand and improve the area they want to strengthen through a coaching conversation

    • Back to your tables for debrief: What was the coaching conversation like? How were you coached? How did you coach?

11:30-12:45 - Lunch

12:45-1:45 -How coaches can use their position to support change in the absence of instructional leadership

• Leading Others - Article Study. Purpose for reading: up to five points that resonate with you. On sticky notes on chart papers in each of the four sections of the article (Balancing Ambition with Humility, Being a Multiplier, Creating Alignment, Making Good Decisions); gallery walk. (Padlet for those online)

1:45-2:00 - 20 Statements - choose one that represents your leadership or your aspirations for leadership. Discuss and create an addition to your "Coaching Shrine" - use a graphic design app like Canva, Adobe Express, DesignWizard, etc.

2:00-2:30 - Wrap-up, Summary, Next Steps

February 19's meeting is a mini-conference. Its success depends on your participation! Please review the agenda/format from last year's mini-conference and consider presenting a topic. Sign up by registering for the February 19, 2025 meeting.

**For those choosing to present, please register no later February 11. (Heather and Rachel are meeting on Feburary 12 to plan the agenda for the mini-conference!)

Note that the mini conference will be held in-person only.

Coaching Content Addressed Today:

• Coaching Conversations

• Characteristics of Leadership

• Coach Leadership Self-Assessment

• Leading Others

Coaching Strategies Employed Today:

• Coaching conversation

• Self-assessment

• Find your match/grouping cards

• Article study

• Gallery walk

• Graphic design apps -Canva, Adobe Express, DesignWizard

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

Next meeting: February 19, 2025