Leadership Coaching Academy  Sessions

Essential Links:

NorCal ELC Website 

• NorCal ELC Learning Commitments & Schedule

• NorCal ELC Participant Resources

Abeo School Change website 

Quality Professional Learning Standards (QPLS) 

CA Professional Standards for Education Leaders (CPSEL) 

Greatness by Design 

LCA Session #8  May 8, 2023

Slides

Protocols:

• Microlabs

Resources: 

• Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) Overview

• 2021 Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) Ignite Presentations

• 2022 Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) Presentations

• Summer Leadership Institute (SLI) Presentation Q&A BoR 

LCA Session #7  April 10, 2023

Slides

Protocols:

• Modified Looking at Data: Using What? So What? Now What? 

• Abeo Protocol for Examining Data 

Resources: 

• Discussion Guide for Data Collection Planning

• Video: Determine Data to Collect 

• Levels of Data

• Types of Street Data

• Case Study: Grove Elementary Info and Data Sets 

LCA Session #6  March 13, 2023

Slides

Texts:

• Access, Opportunity, Inclusion excerpts 

• Street Data excerpt: Levels of Data 

Resources: 

• Discussion Guide for Data Collection Planning

• Video: Determine Data to Collect 

• Levels of Data

• Types of Street Data

LCA Session #5  February 13, 2023

Slides

Text:

• The Lens of Systemic Oppression: "Critical Judgment"

Protocols:

• Modified Consultancies: Probing Questions Exercise

• Abeo's A Guide for Designing Questions

Resources: 

• Abeo’s 5-10min eCourse, A Brief Introduction to Adaptive Leadership: "Adaptive Strategy - Asking Questions"   (PW: go_abeo)

• JamBoards: Probing Questions

LCA Session #4  January 9, 2023

Slides

Text:

• The Lens of Systemic Oppression

Protocol:

• Text-Based Seminar

Resources: 

• Leading for Equity Framework

• Improvement Science Digital Toolbox

Winter Institute Resources:

• Winter Institute Planning Note Catcher

• Modified Consultancy Prompts

LCA Session #2  October 10, 2022

Slides

Resource Page 

Resources: 

• Leading for Equity Framework

• Abeo E-Course:  Adaptive Leadership E-Lecture (pw: Abeo21)

• Improvement Science Digital Toolbox

Protocols:

• Connect Extend Challenge 

Breakout Room Resources:

• PoP Clarity & Root Cause Analysis (5 WHY’S)

• Root Cause Analysis (FISH BONE DIAGRAM)

• Identifying Resource Needs (INSTRUCTIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING MAP)

LCA Session #1  September 12, 2022

Slides

Resource Page 

Texts: 

• Senge-Kafele Excerpts

Resources: 

• Example: Narrowing PoP

• PoP Criteria 

Breakout Room Resources:

• Collaborative Agreements

• Planning Agendas

• PLC Self-Assessment

LCA Session #10  June 13, 2022

Slides

Resource Page 

Resource: 

• Team PLC Presentation Overview & Criteria

• Ignite Presentation Overview 

• Ignite Presentation Toolkit 

Texts:

•  5 Changes, 5 Shifts, and 5 Implications for What's Next in Education 

Protocols:

• Connect Extend Challenge 

LCA Session #9  May 9, 2022

Slides

Resource Page 

Resource: 

• Team PLC Presentation Overview & Criteria

• Ignite Presentation Overview 

• Ignite Presentation Toolkit 

LCA Session #8  April 11, 2022

Slides

Resource Page 

Resource: 

• Team PLC Presentation Overview & Criteria

• Ignite Presentation Overview 

• Ignite Presentation Toolkit 

LCA Session #7  March 14, 2022

Slides

Resource Page 

Resource: 

• Adaptive & Technical Cheat Sheet

Texts:

• Linking Continuous Improvement and Adaptive Leadership 

Protocols:

• Open Space Guidelines 

LCA Session #6  February 14, 2022

Slides

Resource Page 

Protocols: 

• Leadership Success Analysis Protocol

LCA Session #5  January 10, 2022

Slides

Resource Page 

Tools:

Understanding the Continuous Improvement Tools Reference Guide  

Continuous Improvement Pathways Resources & Tools

• Root Cause Analysis Resources & Tools:

  • Guiding Questions for Developing a Fishbone Diagram 

  • Developing a Fishbone Diagram 

  • Fishbone Diagrams 

  • Fishbone Diagram Protocol 

  • Fishbone Diagram Tool 

  • Root Cause Journal Template 

  • 5 Whys Guide 

  • 5 Whys Worksheet & Template 

• Change Practices/ Theory of Action Tools:

  • Guiding Questions for Developing a Driver Diagram 

  • Description of a Driver Diagram 

  • Driver Diagram Tool

  • Driver Diagram Protocol 

• Plan for PDSA & Data

  • Guide for Planning a PDSA/ Small Test of Change

  • Discussion Guide for Data Collection Planning  

  • BLANK PDSA Data Template 

  • Plan Journal Template 

• Data Collection & Analysis

  • Guide for Data Analysis & Use 

  • Data Analysis & Flowchart 

  • BLANK PDSA Data Template

  • Study Journal Template 

  • Act Journal Template 

LCA Session #4  December 8, 2021

Slides

Resource Page 

Continuous Improvement Pathways Resources & Tools

• Root Cause Analysis Resources & Tools:

  • Scenario: Grove Elementary  

  • Scenario: Process Steps 

  • Guiding Questions for Developing a Fishbone Diagram 

  • Developing a Fishbone Diagram 

  • Fishbone Diagram Tool 

  • Model: Fishbone Diagram Tool 

  • Root Cause Journal Template 

• Change Practices/ Theory of Action Tools:

  • Scenario: Grove Elementary 

  • Scenario: Process Steps 

  • Scenario: Root Cause Analysis/ Fishbone Diagram 

  • Guiding Questions for Developing a Driver Diagram 

  • Description of a Driver Diagram 

  • Driver Diagram Tool

• Plan for PDSA & Data

  • Scenario: Grove Elementary 

  • Scenario: Process Steps 

  • Scenario: Driver Diagram 

  • Scenario: PDSA  

  • Guide for Planning a PDSA/ Small Test of Change

  • Discussion Guide for Data Collection Planning  

  • Plan Journal Template 

• Data Collection & Analysis

  • Scenario: Grove Elementary 

  • Scenario: Outcome & Process Data 

  • Guide for Data Analysis & Use 

  • Data Analysis & Flowchart 

  • Study Journal Template 

  • Act Journal Template 

LCA Session #3  November 8, 2021

Slides

Resource Page 

Protocols: 

• Microlabs

Tools:

• Constructivist Listening 

LCA Session #2  October 11, 2021

Slides

Resource Page 

Texts: 

• Can We Stop Using an Equity Lens

• Quotes & Excerpts on Equity 

• Quotes & Excerpts on Transformational Work 

LCA Session #1  September 13, 2021

Slides

Resource Page 

Texts: 

• Improvement Discipline in Practice

Protocols: 

• Knew, New, Renew 

LCA Session #6  June 8, 2021

Resource Page 

Texts: 

• The Seven Principles of Sustainable Leadership

• Willing To Be Disturbed

Protocols: 

• Connect, Extend Challenge

Tools:

• Planning for Sustainability 

LCA Session #5  May 12, 2021

Resource Page 

Protocols: 

• What, So What, Now What?

Resources:

• Area 8: 21CSLA Leadership Coaching Guidance Document for Regional Academies 

• Video: “Making Data Mean More Through Storytelling”

• Ignite Presentation Overview

BreakOut Resources:

The Three Signature SEL Practices BreakOut Resources:

• Three Signature Practices ppt

Listen to Learn: What Student Voices Are Really Telling Us Resources:

• Just Listen: The Teacher Student Relationship clips

• Excerpt: What Students Can Tell Us 

• First Ask, Then Listen

• Equity Through Student and Family Voice in Classroom Learning

• Strategies for Elevating Student Voice

• Learning Forward's, Student Voice: What We Can Learn By Listening

• Edutopia's, Simple Ways to Promote Student Voice in the Classroom

• What Kids Can Do: Voices From the Next Generation

LCA Session #4  April 7, 2021

Resource Page 

Texts: 

• Coaching for Equity Demands Deeper Dialogue 

Protocols: 

• Abeo Consultancy Protocol

• Microlabs 

Tools:

• PoP Progress Monitoring 2021 

Resources:

• Area 8: 21CSLA Leadership Coaching Guidance Document for Regional Academies 

• Constructivist Listening 

• National Equity Project 

• School Reform Initiative 

LCA Session #3  March 3, 2021

Slides

Resource Page 

Texts: 

• Coaching for Equity Demands Deeper Dialogue 

• Data-Informed Leadership in Education 

• Identify the Best Evidence for School and Student Improvement 

• Is Your Approach to Continuous Improvement Colorblind? 

Protocols: 

• The 4 As  

Tools:

• Abeo Small Test of Change Template 

• Abeo IT Plan Writeable 

Resources:

• Video Introduction to PDSA Cycles for Education  

• Video Improvement Science helps educators and students video

LCA Session #2  February 3, 2021

Participant Agenda 

Slides

Resource Page 

Text: 

• The Power of Spoken Words 

• Excerpts from Changing the Discourse in Schools 

• Full Text Changing the Discourse in Schools 

• How to Plan and Implement Continuous Improvement in Schools 

Protocols: 

• Block Party 

• Connect, Extend, Challenge 

Tools:

• T-Chart Discourse I&II 

• Expanded T-Chart Discourse I&II 

• Abeo IT Plan Writeable 

• Abeo Guide for Designing Questions 

• The Six Core Principles of Improvement 

• Principles of Adult Learning 

Resources:

• The Six Core Principles of Improvement 

• Principles of Adult Learning 

• Project Zero Thinking Routines Toolbox

LCA Session #1  January 6, 2021

Participant Agenda

Slides:

• General deck

• Break-Out deck

Resource Page

Text: Improvement Discipline in Practice

Protocols: 

• See, Think, Wonder (modified as Read, Think, Wonder)

• Read, Think, Wonder slide 

• A Guide for Designing Questions w Clarifying & Probing Exercise

• Hopes & Fears Exercise

Tools:

• Wordle: The Why of the Grant

• Adaptive & Technical Cheat Sheet 

• Principles of Adult Learning 

Resources:

• Video Know Your Why 

• Asynchronous Lecturette: Introduction to Adaptive Leadership  PW: Abeo21

• Project Zero Thinking Routines Toolbox