How Principals Can Support Coaches and Vice Versa with Jim Knight

How Principals Can Support Coaches

and Vice Versa

with Jim KnightDeveloped by ERLC/ARPDC as a

result of a grant from Alberta Education to support

implementation

Unmistakable Impact:Unmistakable Impact:How principals can support coaches and

vice versa

The Instructional Coaching Groupwww.instructionalcoaching.com

three big ideasthree big ideas

1.1.

Why?Why?

QuestionQuestion

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

2.2.

School School improvementimprovement plans are too plans are too complicatedcomplicated

One-shot One-shot workshopsworkshops do do

notnot improveimprove instructioninstruction

instructionalcoach.org/researchinstructionalcoach.org/research

HelpingHelping is is complicatedcomplicated

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

good.

IdentityIdentity

“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

Text

StatusStatus

MotivationMotivation

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

Comments?Comments?

3.3.

Impact Schools

Partnership Principles

Impact schoolsImpact schools• Creating the Target

• Administrative support

• Workshops

• Intensive Learning Teams

• Coaches

The Target

Creating the TargetCreating the Target• One-page target

• Target design team

• Teacher meetings

• Teacher commitment

• Central office support

What percentage of your teachers fully What percentage of your teachers fully understand your school’s school understand your school’s school

improvement plan?improvement plan?

A: 0 - 10%

B: 10 - 25%

C: 25- 50%

D: more than 50%

Principal

PrincipalsPrincipals• The first learner

• Observations

• Teacher progress map

• Walking the talk

• Referral to coaching

Comments?Comments?

Workshops

WorkshopsWorkshops• Focus on the target

• Well lead

• Principal attends sometimes leads

• Supported with coaching

• A focus on impact

Intensive Learning TeamsIntensive Learning Teams

Coaching

CoachesCoaches

• Essential for impact

• Know the target inside out

• Lead workshops and ILTs

• Supported by the principal

Coaching coachesCoaching coaches• One page summaries

• Checklists

• Modeling

• Enrolling activities

• Use of time

Effective coachesEffective coaches• Have credibility

• Are emotionally intelligent

• Teach effectively

• Work hard

• Are learners

To sum upTo sum up

7 ideas7 ideas• School-wide clarity

• Precision

• Principal leadership

• Focus

• Clarity

• Partnership

• System-wide support

Comments?Comments?