May 8, 2025 Registration

May 8, 2025 Focus: Reflecting on Your Coaching Year/Measuring Your Growth

Agenda

9:00-9:15- Welcome, Updates, Events

• Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!

9:15-9:45 In September, we had the coaches self-assess their areas of strength/areas of growth based on 20 tips for coaches (Elena Aguilar)

• If you were here, you saved your rating in this folder.

• Here is a blank copy, if you were not here: Coaching Tips Rating Grid

• Review your responses from September. Add a new rating for each of the 20 tips. (Or complete it for the first time.)

• Complete this Google Form to indicate any areas you grew. We will reflect on our overall growth as a network.

• Table group/share with a partner: Where do you see the biggest areas of growth or change?

9:45-10:15 Charting your "ups and downs"

• Take a blank sheet of paper and make a "hotdog fold"

• In chronological order, chart the major coaching activities you engaged in. If they were "ups," chart them near the top of the page; if they were "downs," chart them near the bottom of the page. Draw a line to connect them and visually represent the ups and downs of your school year.

• Debrief questions, first independently, then at tables:

  • What of these activities will happen next year? For the "downs," how can you prepare for those activities to ensure greater success? For the "ups," how can you replicate what you that which made these activities successful?

Throughout the day: Coach shout-out bulletin board

• Use the Padlet to share a thank you to another coach in the network for an idea, tip strategy, etc. that you gained this year. Continue adding as you think of other shout outs throughout the day.

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-11:15 Represent your year in coaching

• Think of your coaching year: coaching activities, strategies, challenges, successes, growth as a coach, etc. 

• Create a representation of your coaching year, using the activities from this morning (self-assessment and "ups and downs").

• If you prefer to stay indoors, we have some "arts and crafts" activities to create a representation. You may also get creative with your phone camera - lots to photograph inside!

• If you would like to go outside, feel free to take a walk on the trail for inspiration. Stay to the right and be courteous to other trail users (runners, walkers, bikes).

• Create what inspires you to visually represent your coaching year.

11:15-11:30 Share your representation with your table group and with one other person in the room with whom you don't interact often.

11:30-12:15 Lunch provided by Remake Learning

12:20-12:25 Remake Learning Days (Tyler Samstag)

12:30-1:20 Letter to future me (feel free to find a comfortable space: outside, transformED, or somewhere in the "big rooms")

• What mindset do I want to carry forward?

• What do I want to do differently?

• What reminders do I need to tell myself?

• If I'm returning to the classroom next year instead of coaching, how do I want my work as a coach to impact my teaching?

• You can think about the work we have done so far today to guide your letter, and you can also see if there is something that wasn’t uncovered during this time.

• Change your permissions to "anyone can view."

• Add the shareable link to your letter to this form.  Only Heather and Rachel will have access, and we will not be reading these.

1:20-2:00 Celebrating our coaching wins

• Throughout the day, we have had opportunities to write "shout outs" to other coaches in the network.

• Now, let's turn the Shout-Out Board into a brag board. Add a sticky shouting out yourself for a coaching win. Read others' wins and find commonalities among the wins from the network!

Wrap-Up

• Multiple ways to reflect - growth from a baseline at the beginning of the year, chart your year, visually represent your coaching year, letter to future me, celebrating our wins

• Future reading: 10 End of Year Tasks for Instructional Coaches

• Mark your calendar! Next year's dates: 

  • September 10

  • October 15

  • November 6

  • December 9

  • January 22

  • February 18

  • March 17

  • April 14

  • May 7

• Thank you for a GREAT year! Our largest network ever - still going strong and growing after 20 years!