Coffee & Coaching 11-2-09

Coffee & Coffee & CoachingCoaching

11-2-0911-2-09

Some norms….• Treat all colleagues with respect• Refrain from sidebar conversations• Turn cell phones off.• Disagree with an idea but not a person• Check your school affiliation at the door• Share experiences and ideas• Check egos at the door

You’ll only get out of this what you put into it…

No Formal BREAK

Please…

Taking care of business…

• CPE TRACKER…. Please register

• Upcoming dates:– High School Host Site Visit:

• 11-19-09• LCTI• Learning Walks• Jim Knight’s October 2008

Next C & C

December – 12-7-09

- Focus on data: As a result of what you do,- how are teachers

successful?- how are students

successful?- how are you successful?

- Continuation of - Activities for ELLs

9:00 a.m.

Lynn HettenSKYPE CALL

Share how PLCs are addressed at

Salisbury Middle School

Building the Social Building the Social Dimension/LensDimension/Lens

2 Groups …..“I can see clearly now, the rain

has gone”

“Climb Every Mountain….”

1. Go to the song that best reflects how you’re feeling about coaching at the moment.

2. Discuss with others at that song what “it” is that is making you feel this way.

3. Come up with other song titles that describe your feelings about your coaching situation at the moment.

Why this is good for us and something good for your teachers & students…..

• PLN – Social Lens/RA – Social Dimension• Learning Styles Research

– Bottom 1/3 of population is strongest in V/S, B/K, M/R– If you teach in the style of V/S, B/K, M/R…you will reach

all students including L/M and V/L

• Horacio Sanchez - Resiliency– Amygdala ---the part of the brain that looks for

commonalities

Our PIIC goals…

To impact student engagement

and student achievement.

The groups self-determined focus for 09-10

• PLC ideas (highest vote 9)• Use of Web 2.0 (8 votes)• Learning Walks (8 votes)• Coaching Resources (7 votes)• Coaching Cycle – pre-visit/visit/debrief (7 votes)• PLC – coach and administrative roles (6 votes)• SAS – (6 votes)• Article Study – (6 votes)• Open to coach --- Reluctant to Change (5 votes)• Seeing coaching in Action-Videos (5 votes)

How do we define Web 2.0 tools?

Use of Web 2.0 Tools

http://iu21-piic.wikispaces.com/

Why have a coaching wiki?

What can we do with the wiki?

http://cliueducation21.wikispaces.com

Memory Check

What about this?

What about this?

Differentiation…..

Group A: What happened at the

PIIC conference?

Group B: Project (Conf. Rm C)

What happened at the PIIC Conference?????

The Art of Questioning

Supporting Leadership

Group B shares what they

worked on….

Scenarios…

• These were shared at the PIIC conference.

• Groups of 2 or 3 read a scenario, discuss and then list ways to work with the given scenario.

• Be ready to share with the group.

Articles shared at the last PDE Coaching Collaborative Board

Mtg

• Adolescent Literacy Needs Policy Push, Carnegie Panel Says

• More Is Not Better

• (my throw in) Innovative

Read and then with a partner(s)develop a written summary to

share with the group.

Open “Mike”

How can these meetings be more valuable?

Thank you so much for sharing your valuable time!!!!

Have a wonderful

Thanksgiving!