Coaching with Intention

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Coaching with Intention

• Jessica Tzuker
• jessicatzuker_at_yahoo.com
• DC Public Schools
• Mary Beth Crowder-Meier
• crowdermeier_at_gmail.com
• Consultant

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The challenges of coaching

• falling into a pattern of drive by coaching
• coaching work that doesnt stick
• resistant and skeptical colleagues

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What Challenges Have You Faced?

• Talk with colleagues about your own coaching
  experiences.

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What is a coaching cycle????

• A gradual release coaching cycle is designed to
  provide teachers with side by side support in the
  classroom over a period of (ideally) consecutive
  days as teachers develop aspects of their
  teaching practice.
• - Katherine Casey
• Literacy Coaching
• Why is it that, while I understand this in
  theory, I cant seem to make it work in my
  practice?
• - Jessica Tzuker
• February 2008 reflection log

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What does it mean to coach with intention?

• address content
• recognize where the teacher is in his or her
  journey as a teacher of literacy
• identify strengths and needs of students
• present possible next steps
• co-create a coaching plan with gradual release

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The Steps in Establishing a Coaching Cycle

• decide on a focus
• begin to identify needs- what has to happen
  before we get started
• determine outcomes and accountability
• define coachs role in the process
• set timeline for coaching cycle and beyond

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How its helped

• Coaching is based around the long term, rather
  than the short term
• Co-creation allows for improved teacher buy-in
  and ownership
• building from desired outcomes
• pre-determined accountability piece allows for
  principal observation
• coaching relationship/roles are agreed upon

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What do you see as possibilities?

• Discuss the potential that you see for using this
  model, or a similar model with colleagues.