How Principals Can Support Coaches and Vice Versa with Jim Knight

1. How Principals Can Support Coaches and Vice Versa with Jim Knight Developed by ERLC/ARPDC as a result of a grant from Alberta Education to support implementation

2. Unmistakable Impact: How principals can support coaches and vice versa The Instructional Coaching Group www.instructionalcoaching.com

3. three big ideas

4. 1.

5. Why?

7. Question Do you agree that instruction is a critical factor in student learning?

8. 2.

9. School improvement plans are too complicated

10. One-shot workshops do notimprove instruction instructionalcoach.org/research

11. Helping is complicated

13. Prochaska, Norcross, DiClemente, & Crawley. (1994). Changing for good.

14. Identity

18. “knowledge workers … don’t like to be told what to do. Thinking for a living engenders thinking for oneself. Knowledge workers are paid for their education, experience, and expertise, so it is not surprising that they take offense when someone else rides roughshod over their intellectual territory.” Thomas Davenport, Thinking for a Living

19. Status Text

21. Motivation

23. Goals that people set for themselves and that are devoted to attaining mastery are usually healthy. But goals imposed by others--sales targets, quarterly returns, standardized test scores, and so on--can sometimes have dangerous side-effects. Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

24. Comments?

25. 3.

26. Impact Schools

27. PartnershipPrinciples

28. Impact schools • Creating the Target • Administrative support • Workshops • Intensive Learning Teams • Coaches

29. The Target

31. Creating the Target • One-page target • Target design team • Teacher meetings • Teacher commitment • Central office support

32. What percentage of your teachers fully understand your school’s school improvement plan? A: 0 - 10% B: 10 - 25% C: 25- 50% D: more than 50%

33. Principal

34. Principals • The first learner • Observations • Teacher progress map • Walking the talk • Referral to coaching

38. Comments?

39. Workshops

40. Workshops • Focus on the target • Well lead • Principal attends sometimes leads • Supported with coaching • A focus on impact

41. Intensive Learning Teams

42. Coaching

43. Coaches • Essential for impact • Know the target inside out • Lead workshops and ILTs • Supported by the principal

44. Coaching coaches • One page summaries • Checklists • Modeling • Enrolling activities • Use of time

45. Effective coaches • Have credibility • Are emotionally intelligent • Teach effectively • Work hard • Are learners

46. To sum up

47. 7 ideas • School-wide clarity • Precision • Principal leadership • Focus • Clarity • Partnership • System-wide support

48. Comments?