What kinds of professional supports do coaches provide?
Supporting Site Priorities:
Coaches collaborate with site administrators and teachers to identify collective areas of instructional focus that guide site improvement efforts.
Coaches create & facilate teacher-centered staff professional learning around site areas of focus
Coaches facilitate PLC's via Improvement Science processes around shared problems of practice.
Coaches provide 1:1 teacher support, classroom demonstration lessons, and co-planning & teaching
Coaches provide teachers opportunities to observe and engage with colleagues to experience high leverage instructional strategies in action.
Coaches support teachers in retrieving & analyze relevant data to drive instructional decision-making.
Coaches support the implementation of district instructional initiatives
Act as liaisons between site and district specialists to provide necessary supports to the site
DB Coach schedules designate Thursdays as professional collaboration between sites if needed! Fridays, coaches work at a shared site on their own professional learning.