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Professional Development
The Campus Administrator's Role
November 20, 2019
This session will provide an overview of an administrator's role in establishing an effective instructional coaching process. Administrators will be provided with information and scenarios for implementing instructional coaching on a campus that will result in optimal coaching experiences. DETAILS
Coaching Teachers of ELs
Empower educators to support English Learners (ELs) in acquiring English language proficiency and content area knowledge. Instructional coaches will explore learning environments, instructional methodologies, and other considerations that lead to the academic growth and English-language development of ELs.
Foundations Revisited for Experienced Coaches
December 6, 2019
This session for experienced coaches will provide resources and materials that can be used to support coaching cycles and protocols. Suggestions and guidance will be given to collaboratively increase teachers’ instructional capacity through coaching. Experienced coaches will leave this session with fresh ideas, while also revisiting best practices. DETAILS
PLCs by Design
January 16, 2020
Move to action using the PLC+ framework to support your teacher teams. Participants will focus on ensuring your teachers discover the vital role they play in the equation of teaching and learning. Discuss equity, high expectations, and a commitment to building self-efficacy and collective efficacy. This session will support educators to question practices and outcomes. Participants will receive a copy of the publications, PLC+ Better decisions and Greater Impact by Design and The PLC+ Playbook, a Corwin publication. DETAILS
Make Every English Learner Successful
January 21, 2020
Build your English learner playbook by providing dynamic tools to support any content area. Coach around crafting opportunities for students to meaningfully engage with content in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking. This session will focus on 5 things that make every English learner successful. Join us as we explore the components, purpose , and applications to instruction. DETAILS
This session will also be available on August 6, 2020. Register for that session here.
Working with the Adult Learner
January 22, 2020
Adult learners have a variety of experiences, learning styles, and needs. Finding the best way to reach and interact with adult learners can be a challenge for academic coaches. This session will explore many of the factors impacting successful coaching relationships by focusing the coach on the best ways to approach the variety of individuals encountered within the school setting and strategies for positive outcomes. DETAILS
Planning and Conducting Effective Professional Development to Improve Instructional Capacity
February 4, 2020
Coaches will be presented with tools and step-by-step guidance on how to facilitate effective, meaningful, and timely professional development as part of the Instructional Coaches Series. This session will address: presentation strategies, using data to plan PD, PLCs, and other ways to build teacher capacity. Coaches will leave with tools for direct application and strategies for immediate implementation. DETAILS
The Critical Elements of the Coaching Cycle
Learn how to set manageable goals to begin coaching cycles with teachers. Explore how to organize and manage the different phases of each cycle, as well as, ways to communicate effectively with teachers and administrators in order to yield optimal results. DETAILS
Supporting Teachers of Special Student Populations - Kickin’ it Up a Notch
February 21, 2020
Empower teachers to put teaching and learning first for all students through targeted instructional coaching for special student populations (Bilingual, Dyslexia, Homeless Students, Foster Care, Gifted and Talented, Migrant and Special Education). Coaches will examine the unique instructional needs of special student populations and identify practices that are unique to teachers and teaching teams for special populations. Join us as we share best practices to impact transfer of knowledge for adults that lead to classroom implementation and improved student outcomes for all learners. DETAILS
Coaching in Mathematics Professional Learning Communities
Instructional playbooks are packed with tools to facilitate the coaching process. Instead of reducing teaching or coaching to following a script, they provide a framework to apply and adjust to the specific needs of a given teacher and their classroom. In settings where a clearly defined set of teaching strategies already exists, this workshop guides coaches and others (e.g., administrators) through the development of an instructional playbook. Participants will develop a usable draft of an instructional playbook that can be adjusted as necessary.
This workshop is based on The Instructional Playbook: The Missing Link for Translating Research Into Practice (2019) by Jim Knight, Ann Hoffman, Michelle Harris, and Sharon Thomas. Participants will receive a copy of this resource as well its complementary workbook. REGISTER
Better Conversations for Instructional Leaders
June 8, 2020Effective coaches and instructional leaders communicate their message clearly, build healthy emotional connections with others, and maneuver through emotionally complex situations in ways that allow them to speak the truth so that will be heard. This workshop introduces 6 beliefs and 10 habits that promote healthy and productive relationships and is based on Better Conversations (Knight, 2016).
Participants will receive a copy of Better Conversations and its supporting workbook. REGISTER
Introduction to Leadership Coaching
June 9, 2020The quality of the conversations in an organization can critically influence the organization’s effectiveness. This session explores how a coaching orientation, together with a strong coaching process and key coaching skills, can make a significant and immediate difference in the conversations in which school leaders engage every day. It provides leaders with the tools they need to take a coaching approach to all conversations with their teams.
Three areas of focus will guide the structure of the day:
- The GROWTH Coaching System
- Coaching Way of Being
- Key Coaching Skills
This workshop was developed by Jim Knight's Instructional Coaching Group to provide a coaching model for administrators, supervisors, and evaluators that is differentiated from an instructional coaching model facilitated by an instructional coach or teacher leader.
Participants will receive a copy of The Leader's Guide to Coaching in Schools (Campbell and van Nieuwerburgh, 2018) and the Leaders as Coach Workbook (Knight, 2019). REGISTER