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How To Create Successful Coaching Cycles With Your Teachers Mar 01, 2021

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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Sue discuss Chapter 4 of Coaching Matters. In this chapter, you will learn the differences, as well as the pro's and con's of both 1:1 and Team Coaching.

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Coaching Cycle as a Structure

A Common way to structure coaches work is through a Coaching CycleCoaching Cycles are a series of interactions with an individual or team of teachers over timeThey have a goal for both teacher and student learning
The goals are developed in collaboration with the client and based on teacher and student learning needs
Coaching cycles could be multiple days to multiple weeks
Coaching Cycle ExamplesStudent Learning GoalsIncrease student performance on an assessment by X%
Teacher Learning GoalsIncrease teacher understanding of the learning goal and capacity to develop and implement guided and independent practice tasks to support students
Coaching Learning GoalsIncrease capacity to observe and record student cognitive behaviors data during classroom observations
A Coaching Cycle is a structure that defines how a coach and teacher work togetherCoaching Cycles IncludeDefining how a coach and teacher work together
Defining the learning goal for students and teacher (and coach)
Delineates the learning process that will be used to achieve the goal and establishes a way to measure success.
Coaching Cycles can be described asOne Teacher … One DayAll parts of a coaching cycle happen on a single dayPlanning - Demonstration - Coteaching - Observation - Debriefing and Reflection
A Coach may check in a few days later to learn about progress towards the goal and may set up time for future reflection or conversation
Several Teachers on a TeamCoach meets with the team of teachers to establish student learning goals
Coach meets with individual teachers or work with team
Coach may meet with a smaller group inside the team
Coach may facilitate common planning and debriefing conversations with the team using student evidence and observational data
Coach may create individual coaching cycles for individual teachers
Multiweek Coaching CyclesThe Coach works with a small number of teachers over several weeks with a sustained time in each teachers classroom
Coach and teacher focus on goals together based on student needs and desired outcomes
The coach may demonstrate in front of the students
Constant reflection is useful
Partial Coaching CyclesCoaches and teachers agree to occasionally connect and create an abbreviated cycle focusing only on one component of teacher learning rather than the entire process.
If a coach's work is structured in a coaching cycle, it is essential to delineate and communicate what the cycle is, how teachers will access time to meet with coaches and expectations for each cycle's timeframe and goals.

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1:1 Coaching vs Team Coaching | Debating the Pros and Cons of Instructional Coaching Feb 22, 2021

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Coaching Matters Chapter 4: Decisions about Coaches' Work

The leaders who manage and initiate coaching programs or refine existing programs make a series of critical decisions regarding coaches’ daily workHow to make decisions about the coaching program
Which teachers coaches serve
How coaches spend their days once primary roles are determined
What constitutes a coaching cycle
How coaches interact with teachers that they serve
Reluctance to make appropriate decisions can lead to confusion about how a coaching program works and significant variance within the programs and can result in uneven results in the coaching program
Each decision should be made to influence the effects of the coaching program
Factors to consider when looking to positively influence the coaching programThe balance between individual and team coaching
Frequency in monitoring coaches’ work
Access to offsite professional learning
Deployment of coaches

Coach Program Decisions

One decision that influences how a coach spends time each day is the balance between individual and team coaching.

Balance of Individual and Team Coaching

The coaching program's purpose and goals form the primary determinants of a balance between team and individual coaching.When the purpose and goals are clear, district and local decision-makers find that operational decisions are easier to make
Setting parameters regarding the balance of time helps a coach make a better decision about how to allocate and prioritize time
Determining the balance between team and individual time takes deep consideration of the:Coaching program goals
Needs of teachers
School and district culture

Individual Coaching

Each teacher is a unique learner
The focused time between coaches and teachers have the greatest potential to strengthen student learning opportunities and teaching quality
The purpose and benefits of individual coaching are toProvide personalized, differentiated, contextualized support to teachers within their own classrooms
With their content areas and their students
In 1:1 coaching, coaches can go deeper and focuses more on the specific needs and situations when which teachers work and adapt to a teacher’s preferences, experience, and learning goals.Coaches and teachers can dress personalized needs within the individual classroom context to fine-tune a teacher’s practice and expand student’s opportunities to learn.
Coaches can be focused on advancing a teacher’s practice in the most expedient way.
In 1:1 coaching, coaches and teachers epically engage in a full or partial coaching cycle.Teachers identify their learning goals, the outcomes for their students, and contribute to decisions about how the coach can best support them in reaching both.
Coaches have one or more opportunities to gather data for analysis with the teacher, engage in a conversation focused on the teacher’s decision-making related to practice, and explore and choose alternatives to current practice.
Limitations of 1:1 CoachingNever enough coaching to support to meet the demands of the programCoaches first make direct observations of teachers’ nuanced behaviors involved in performance and the effects of those behaviors on different students.
Coaches analyze what is happening and guide teachers to make large or small adjustments in their practice to affect student outcomes.
Scheduling Coaches and Teachers vs Volunteerism is a proactive way to ensure that individual coaching support is equitably distributed across a schoolWithout a way to monitor coaching support by teachers, coaches may miss opportunities to engage with some teachersCoaches may find it relatively easy to avoid teachers who don’t seek support or are perceived to be doing fine without it
This only hurts the potential for student achievement

Team Coaching

Team coaching intends to move new learning into practice and adapt and refine practice for student success.Team coaching widens the opportunity for coaching support because coaches work with multiple teachers at one time.
Why Team Coach?To exponentially increase the effects and speed of change for more teachers
When teachers work in a team, coaching can be more efficient and more effective.
Team coaching has the opportunity to advance team maturation, growth, innovation, confidence, and efficacy.
The argument against Team CoachingTeam coaching is now a way to reduce the number of coaches needed
Team coaching blends 1:1 coaching with team coaching to provide a greater potential for transforming the quality of teaching and learningCoaches help team members harness the collective power of the group to help each other and strengthen their success (Thornton (2010)
In a Team, Coaches can work with:PLC's
Grade-Level Teachers
Courses
Departments
Interdisciplinary Teams
Other group types where members share a common learning goal
Pitfalls of Team CoachingInefficiency
Groupthink
Competition
Inductiveness
Time
Most pitfalls occur when a coach is not prepared to coach a team or when members have inaccurate assumptions or expectations about coaching.The best type of team coaching comes when the coach works with the group leader to help them become a better group leader so that the group can work independently.The coach can then support individual members of a team while the leader focuses on the group as a unit
Another downside is that a coach spends the majority of time in team meetings and not in the classroom working with teachers 1:1

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Canva for Education: Empowering Your Teachers and Students To Design! Feb 15, 2021

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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and sits down with Jason Wilmot the Head of Education at Canva to discuss the importance of empowering every teacher and student to be the designers of their imagination.

Did you know that your school can sign up every teacher, student, and staff member up for a Canva for Education account for FREE? To learn more, please visit Canva.com/Education.

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About Canva for Education

Inspire creativity and teamwork with Canva for Education

Canva for education is the only design platform your classroom will ever need. Pass on creative and collaborative skills that’ll last a lifetime with our intuitive drag-and-drop tool that makes visual learning and communication easy and fun.

Plus, it’s available for free to all K-12 teachers and their students.

From brainstorms and worksheets to presentations and posters – your whole class can design anything, with any ingredient, together. As a go-to platform for project-based learning, you can create assignments that reflect the challenges your students will face in the real world. Canva is also fully functional cross-platform.

About our Guest: Jason Wilmot

Jason Wilmot is the Head of Education at Canva. Jason joined Canva in December of 2020 after spending the last 17 years at Microsoft in a variety of roles focused on education. His most recent role at Microsoft was leading the K12 Education team globally. He is now focused on working with district and school leaders to inspire creativity and teamwork in the classroom with Canva for Education.

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10 Roles and Responsibilities of Coaches (Coaching Matters Chapter 3) Feb 08, 2021

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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan discuss Chapter 3 of Coaching Matters "Roles and Responsibilities for Coaches"

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Ten Roles and Responsibilities of Coaches

Resource Provider

Sharing and creating instructional resources with teachers

Data Coach

Guiding teachers to access, analyze, and use relevant, formal, and informal data from multiple sources
Help teachers learn how to gather data
Help teachers to reflect through data
Facilitating conversations that engage teachers in analyzing and using a variety of data to access student learning and adapt instruction

Instructional Specialist

Engaging teachers in planning instruction and using effective, high-impact teaching strategies
Facilitate planning of Tier 1 Instruction, and explores many ways for accessing learning and differentiating instruction, applying content-specific pedagogical instruction, and using instructional models that support student-centered instruction

Curriculum Specialist

Deep content knowledge and are able to unpack standards to develop or use learning progressions or pacing charts for planning units and lessons
Assisting teachers in accessing and using district curricula to align instruction to standards.
Helping teachers integrate learning across disciplines to reinforce learning outcomes
Building consistency and coherence across classrooms, grade levels, courses, and schools to ensure that the curriculum is implemented with integrity to ensure equity in learning

Classroom Supporter

Working inside of classrooms to help teachers implement new effective instruction, practice new strategies, and implement curricula to promote student success
Providing demonstrated lessons, co-teach, or observe and facilitate reflection conversations with teachers.
Working to enhance teachers efficacy and improve teaching and student learning
Planning and reflecting together on teaching and student learning.
Raising a teacher's consciousness and skillfulness about making on the spot instructional decisions that respond to student learning needs.

Learning Facilitator

Facilitate individual, small-group, and whole-faculty professional learning among staff members.

Mentor

Mentoring novice teachers or new-to-the-school teachers
Serving as role models, acculturate new teachers to the school, and advice new teachers about instruction, curriculum, procedures, practices, and school politics

School Leader

Modeling continual improvement
Reflecting on their work by engaging in the feedback process
Experimenting with new ideas
Taking risks
Assisting with School Improvement projects

Catalyst for Change

Being a visionary who "never content with the status quo but rather always looking for a better way"
Coaches feel secure in their own work and are committed to continual improvement
Prompting teachers to analyze student learning
Questioning the status quo
Engaging others in exploring possibilities, and identifying the undiscussable within a school

Learner

Modeling continual improvement
Reflecting on their work by engaging in the feedback process
Experimenting with new ideas and taking risks
Using what they learn to contribute to the success of all teachers and students
Supporting the success of students by strengthening the effectiveness of teaching
Building a teachers commitment to continuous improvement through professional learning
Sending a powerful message about the importance of professional learning as a vehicle for student success

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Does Coaching … Really Matter? Feb 01, 2021

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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan begin a book study on the book Coaching Matters. We discuss chapter 1 which gives us a firm foundation on where tech coaching should begin and become successful.

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In this episode, we discuss chapter 1 of Coaching Matters by Joellen Killion, Cindy Harrison, Chris Bryan, and Heather Cliftton. Some of the key points discussed in the conversation:

Establishing a base with the staff members to support what is being taught in the curriculum.
How do you make coaching a part of the teacher’s routine?
- Coaching cycle, not so much coaching a tool or concept in isolation but bringing the teacher through a unit with technology weaved in throughout.
Be positive with administrators on good things teachers are doing as you move forward with helping with meeting needs that they may have.
Get teachers thinking about what can be done and accomplished through the tools they learn about and use of technology not just becoming proficient in specific tools. Similar to how we want our students to learn. Develop critical thinking skills.
Have your vision and philosophy as a coach as you work with leadership to carry out the mission and vision of the district as you work with teachers.
Get teachers thinking about what can be done and accomplished through the tools they learn about and use of technology not just becoming proficient in specific tools. Similar to how we want our students to learn. Develop critical thinking skills.
What are you doing with the coaching title that you have? Are you making an impact?

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STEM Education: How Can Tech Coaches Help Create Engaging Activities For All Subject Areas? Jan 25, 2021

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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan welcome our guests, Lindsay Simpson, and Amy Fusarelli as we discuss STEAM, Tech Coaching, and putting it all together as we collaborate with teachers to reach students.

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In this episode, we discuss:

STEM/STEAM Coaching

How does it differ from other areas?
“Where all of the content areas come to play!”
Collaborative, don’t make it a “drop off and leave” area. Teachers join in, coach/facilitator leads but all participate. This creates buy-in and leaves the teachers wanting more.
Bringing items in from all of the content areas and showing teachers and students how it can all come together.
Celebrate baby steps with various successes as you go.
Look for willing participants.
Look for ideas in everyday conversations with teachers and/or staff meetings. Let the ideas develop as colleagues talk with one another and realize ways that they can collaborate.
Building A Culture of STEM
Integrating STEM and Project-Based Learning that may already be happening in the classroom.
Start small and bring the community together, partner with local businesses.
Find opportunities to chat with teachers in whatever form that may look like and work for you building. Develop the relationship to find out what is going on in their classroom and what types of project ideas may work well for them.
Budgeting For STEM
Budget line for each planned project or area
Think about consumables that would need to be replaced each year
Building Capacity
Start a video channel for step by step instructions for teachers to better understand tools and STEM concepts. Share with both teachers and have the availability of appropriate ones for the community.
Create a website to feature projects and student work and teacher lesson plan sharing.
Use podcasting as a way to reach your students/teachers.

About our Guest: Lindsay Simpson

Lindsay Simpson is a STEAM & Instructional Technology Specialist at Genesee Valley Central School District, supporting all grade levels Pk-12! Lindsay is the host of the new podcast, Behind The Chalk, and the co-host of the podcast, The Next Step.

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Twitter: @Lsimpson1220
Tech Tutorial YouTube Channel

About our Guest: Amy Fusarelli

Amy Fusarelli is a Digital Learning Coach for Norwalk Public Schools. She is a Google Level 1 Certified Educator and a Microsoft Innovative Educator.

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Preparing Teachers Of Younger Learners To Be Tech Ready Jan 18, 2021

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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan welcome our guest Sarah Kiefer as we talk about a topic of discussion from The Tech Coaches Network. We discuss ways that we have prepared teachers of younger learners to be tech ready with ever changing ways to do school.

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In this episode, we discuss:

As we have experienced over the past year, education can begin to look a lot different at the spur of a moment and in the blink of an eye. If you are a tech coach who deals with elementary teachers this discussion is for you. It is important that we coach teachers to feel comfortable themselves with using technology for instruction and feel even more comfortable to acclimate their students to what they might see both during in school learning and virtual learning.

Getting started
It’s not about the tool or the tech
Keep it simple
Plan for moving in and out of remote learning or different situations before they happen to provide seamless transitions, especially for our younger students.
Maximize transferability from a traditional classroom setting to online learning. The key thing to keep in mind is if something can be done in the traditional classroom setting in a digital manner than can be transferred to virtual learning, it is best to train students in this way from the beginning of the school year.
Have the teachers try things bit by bit. E.g. if Google Classroom is being implemented at the Kindergarten level, encourage them to begin by posting something simple like a newsletter. This way it gets parents used to the navigation if they suddenly find themselves at home trying to help their child during a time of remote learning.
- Another example here would be the use of videos. Get acclimated to using videos to introduce a lesson if you are face to face this way it transfers easily into a remote situation.
Standardize as much as possible without stifling innovation.
- Example of Susan’s Technology Standardization / Maximization Document
Practice while face to face for virtual situations. YES!
Get administrator buy in and support (& guidance/expectations)

About our Guest: Sarah Kiefer

After graduating from The University of Dayton, Sarah taught 5th grade, then 7th & 8th grade Social Studies for 14 years. She's currently a Technology Integration Specialist for Ross Local Schools where she thoroughly enjoys supporting 2 elementaries of energetic teachers and students. She is also a Google for Education Certified Innovator (#NYC19), Trainer and Educator, Levels 1 and 2. She also writes the blog "Tech You Can Do" where she shares tips & activities any teacher can do with their students.

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The Launch of a New Tech Coaches Website Jan 11, 2021

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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan discuss the launching of her new website Tech Imaginations! If you are interested in creating your own blog or website this year, check out the team at Educational Web Design and learn how you can continue sharing your passions, on your website.

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Are You Coaching Your Curriculum or Your Technology? Jan 04, 2021

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In this episode of Ask the Tech Coach, Jeff sits down with Kat Howard to discuss making the big transition to a Microsoft Teams environment, managing multiple Tech Coaches, and helping them learn to coach to the curriculum, rather than the technology. If you are a new listener to TeacherCast, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our Contact Page and let us know how we can help you today!

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Kat Howard is a Senior Leader in an all-through school in Northamptonshire, overseeing staff professional development and strategic oversight for English. An English specialist, Kat has worked with leading providers such as the NCTL, Oak National, the BBC, and is Founder of Litdrive, an English subject community for teachers. Author/co-author of the #1 bestsellers 'Stop Talking About Wellbeing' and 'Symbiosis: The Curriculum and The Classroom', Kat speaks and writes about the integral link between teacher purpose and the quality of the curriculum and professional development in schools. You can find her at @saysmiss on Twitter and she blogs at www.saysmiss.wordpress.com.

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The Great Breakout Room Debate: Meet vs Teams vs Zoom Dec 13, 2020

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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan welcome John Sowash from the Chromebook Classroom Podcast as our guest as we discuss & debate the Breakout Rooms and how they are being used on Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Zoom.

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