Principal and Coach meeting

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Principal and Coach meeting

• November 30th
• 2004
• Coaching.Whats it all about?

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Intervention/Progress Monitoring

• Please share a success of a recent intervention
• Or
• Share a success related to Progress Monitoring

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WA job responsibilities of a coach

• WA job description
• 4 major roles in coaching
• Facilitating
• Presenting/teaching adults
• Consulting
• Coaching (supporting through planning,
  observation, and reflection)

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Job list

• Take 10 minutes
• With your principal, list all job tasks that are
  your responsibility
• Allocate frequency timeline to each task ie.
  Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, as needed..
• Share your list with another school

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Facilitating

• Facilitating Prof dev. provided by others
• Planning, Coordinating, leading implementation of
  interventions
• Planning implementing PD for K-3 staff
• Lead assessment system
• Order, organize, distribute reading and
  assessment materials

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Presenting/teaching adults

• Provide professional dev on SBRR and intervention
  strategies
• Teach K-3 staff how to administer, record and
  analyze the assessments
• Model lessons

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Consulting

• Insure that programs are implemented with
  fidelity
• Model how lessons are taught with individual
  teachers
• Model lessons for groups of teachers to observe
• Diagnose what is likely preventing student
  success

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Coaching

• Mentoring teachers who are reluctant

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Chart your activities

• Place your activities on the chart
• Are there areas that you emphasize more than
  others?
• Are there areas that you are hesitant to
  address?

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Reading Coach job responsibilities

• Personalize your chart

Facilitate Present/teach Consult Coach

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Implementation Rubric

• Pieces take from Reading Leader training with
  Core
• Pieces related to coaching and leadership
• Read through ..
• Discuss together
• Highlight your areas of strength in blue
• Highlight your areas of focus in pink
• What would you need to increase your skills or
  activities in the pink areas?

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Planning for coaching

• Data driven observations
• Use student performance data to target
  observations
• Pre-conference with teacher regarding student
  performance
• Identify goals for instruction based on student
  data

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Planning for coaching

• Examine student data in your handouts for second
  grade
• Identify students that may need particular focus
  during observation
• Identify areas of focus for those students

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Watch video

• Examine closely whom the teacher call on for
  comprehension questions
• Examine engagement and comprehension
  participation for all students

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Planning coaching..

• Given the student performance data and
  observation
• Note some techniques that the teacher could
  employ to increase comprehension or vocabulary
  for the three students who are struggling.
• Note some techniques that the teacher could
  employ to increase comprehension or vocabulary
  for all students

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Planning for coaching

• Examine student performance data for Kindergarten
  classrooms
• Identify areas of emphasis for this grade level
• Identify possible goals for this group of
  teachers

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Kindergarten

• Scenario You have looked at student data with
  the teachers. Identified goals as a grade level.
  Three weeks have passed with teachers delivering
  instruction towards these goals. You are now
  going to observe to see how progress has been
  moving along with these students.

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Watch video

• Identify areas of strength as a team
• Identify where teachers met the targeted goals
• Identify areas where you can celebrate student
  success and celebrate teacher impact
• Plan a grade level meeting to provide feedback to
  team

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Scenarios

• Read Scenario I
• Complete questions as a table
• Share responses (numbered heads)

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Scenarios

• Read Scenario 2
• Complete questions as a table
• Share responses (numbered heads)

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Scenario 3

• Read Scenario 3
• Complete questions as a table
• Share responses (Inside/Outside circles)

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Self Assessment

• 1. Time
• Daily observations
• Facilitate Grade level meetings
• Provide Professional development for staff
• Bring in outside support
• Provide internal PD
• Assessment management
• Modeling lessons
• Supporting teachers to observe on another
• Meet with RLT regularly

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Self Assessment

• 2. Assessment
• Train assessment team to administer
• Collect data from assessments
• Input data into data systems
• Plan meetings to analyze data
• Design observations based on student data
• Determine who needs further assessment to
  intervene

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Self Assessment

• 3. Intervention
• Select students for intervention
• Select need for further assessment
• Set up progress monitoring
• Train staff in intervention program
• Observe intervention delivery
• Provide feedback for intervention delivery
• Assess effectiveness of intervention

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Quote for the day

• We cannot teach people anything we can only
  help them discover it within themselves.
• Galileo Galilei