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However, there is a practice of instructional coaching that can have a significant impact on teacher morale, student achievement, coaching relationships, and accountability.

Participants will be introduced to the Culture of Evidence Toolkit for Instructional Coaches, a five part instructional coaching tool designed to elevate specific feedback, collective efficacy, and instructional strategies.

In this interactive and engaging session, attendees will learn how teacher efficacy and clarity can make a significant difference to student learning. Hattie (Visible Learning) reveals consistent findings: teachers who report a higher sense of efficacy, both individually and as a school collective, tend to be more likely to enter the field, report higher overall satisfaction with their jobs, display greater effort and motivation, take on extra roles in their schools, and are more resilient across the span of their career. Through master and vicarious experiences, educators can double the speed of progress for their students.

Effective instructional coaches can help teachers appropriate new knowledge about teaching and learning, rather than maintaining existing knowledge. And the most influential coaches can sensitively challenge current thinking and practice.

With a shared picture, teachers can reflect on practices which aid instructional coaching in setting meaningful goals. Discover ways to make video one of the most powerful game changers in the classroom and beyond.

with a low tech strategy to support their understanding.  So your students struggle with all the bells and whistles of the online STAAR test, or don’t even use them at all? This session will demonstrate a process for students to annotate the online STAAR test so they can properly analyze the questions and annotate the passages correctly.

This session will touch on fun and engaging ways to build relationships with others. Some of the information shared will include: Google Forms to get immediate teacher feedback to begin support right away, the app Voxer to communicate and give feedback in a friendly way, fun ways to communicate updates to your teams, ways to give virtual PD, and other online communication tools such as Zoom.

Discover how to apply the practice of self-coaching to your unique Instructional Coaching role as you identify components of a self-coaching cycle to overcome challenges and reach your goals.

The partnership encompasses different components to ensure it is impactful. This session will provide a snapshot that discusses the work that a coaching cycle entails. The journey will take participants through the focus on student learning targets, teacher instruction and their learning, support of the instructional coach, and measuring the progress of the coaching cycle.

in the book, “Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain” and explore how their cultural awareness impacts students success. There will be more opportunities for dialogue, collaboration, and exploration through partner and group work.

focused on planning for essential teacher learning regarding formative assessment (FA). Coaches will examine how using a protocol focused first on a teacher’s calendar, combined with questions to facilitate thinking, will empower them to respond to FA data. Coaches will see that using this process can support teachers in carefully planning when to implement FA and how to meaningfully respond during student learning.

Are you a Jim, Joellen, Steve, Diane, or Elena?

This session will delve into coaching strategies that will prepare teachers to connect with their students on a deeper level, leading to decreased teacher burn-out, increased retention, and ultimately better student engagement and achievement. This session is based on a case study project conducted during my principal certification coursework.

teacher effectiveness, student success, and professional efficacy. In this session you will learn how to utilize master teachers to provide instructional support and targeted professional learning. The result is a differentiated support system leading to improved teacher practice and student achievement. Through purposeful planning and intentional partnering your campus can begin Coaching Outside the Box!

This session will cover more than bubble baths and pedicures. How do we truly coach teachers to have more emotional resilience? How do we enter a coaching conversation when a teacher is not ready emotionally? How do we support the whole teacher? Imagine.

If so, this session is for you. Come and participate in ways to incorporate more content games, competition, and methods for increasing student engagement in this interactive session based on the popular game Fortnite.

Join us for this hands-on session to experience multiple ways students can show what they have learned by creating a variety of products using technology. You will be able to add these ideas to your coaching repertoire to share with teachers on your campuses!

Join us for this hands-on session to experience multiple ways students can show what they have learned by creating a variety of products using technology. You will be able to add these ideas to your coaching repertoire to share with teachers on your campuses!

In this session, you will learn how to easily build and maintain trusting relationships with teachers of different generations. The skills you learn will show how to gain the trust of these three generations: baby boomers, gen x and millennials. We will walk through how to understand the needs of each generation in order to help move the coaching partnership forward.

This session will show some of the ways I have been able to promote my services to teachers in Title 1 school and help teachers begin to use more innovative tools for teaching. The session will be interactive and fun. I will focus on developing coaching expertise through constant learning, connections to district content and pedagogy experts and communication with campus leadership.

other ways to view the situation. In this session, coaches will learn how to use practices to shift perspective to open up new possibilities for their clients. Specifically, coaches will:

• Understand the impact of a single perspective has on a client’s ability to consider alternatives.
• Explore practices to shift client perspective during a coaching conversation.
• Practice strategies for shifting perspective.

to help build more effective coaching, collaboration, and support. Be sure to get your phone or laptop ready to be used while you try out these tools and see how they can support a wide variety of coaching frameworks. You’ll leave with additional resources to use on your own tour as you work towards even more effective coaching.

and therefore how we support teachers must change. Virtual collaboration, increased teamwork, flexible hours, on-demand professional learning, and flattened hierarchies are just a few common workplace values and therefore should be reflected in how we structure learning and school. During this keynote, I hope you’ll leave with an inspiration to sequence thinking in new ways, and to spawn new ideas, interact with others in more meaningful ways, and share a new perspective on coaching and leadership.

We want students to be strong thinkers and problem-solvers; and to be empowered to use their learning beyond the school walls. But applying what we’ve learned to new contexts – also known as learning transfer – can be incredibly difficult to achieve. Nearly all learners, young and old, struggle with learning transfer. Additionally, many students stop expecting school to make sense or have any practical application in their lives beyond school, leading to a constant struggle and a search for ways to motivate them.

The key to understanding transfer is this: facts and topics do not transfer. They cannot be applied directly to a new situation. Whenever we try to apply our insights from one situation to another we are always abstracting to the conceptual level, generalizing from a specific instance to a broader rule, before our knowledge helps us unlock the new situation. These workshops build teachers’ skills with practical ways to help students build the foundational understanding needed to develop deeper, conceptual understanding and use those insights to innovate and tackle complex problems they encounter in their lives.

Well, imagine no more! As instructional coaches, we can make that world a reality for our teachers through Individualized Professional Learning. Come learn how to truly transform instruction through customized coaching that turns meetings to momentum and malaise to motivation. We will explore the traits and techniques instructional coaches can use to provide professional learning that lasts.

By considering the personalities, level of expertise, and individual goals that exist within a team, participants will learn how to foster team building. We’ll collaborate on ways to implement teacher expertise while ensuring the use of best practices. Coaches will gain tools to clarify practices and to strategically provide teachers with concise feedback & support.

advance positive learning environments, and strive to achieve more equitable outcomes for students. Learn why the call for exceptional growth and evaluation tools for teachers is just as relevant and necessary to instructional coaches. Discover how Leander ISD collaboratively designed a mechanism for fostering the continuous improvement of coaches so to positively impact student learning.

Create your own vision board today based on your personal and professional goals. In addition, develop a plan of action for implementing this practice with your teachers and their students during the upcoming school year.

but do teachers truly understand the language learning process and what ELs actually need in order to be successful? In this session, we will discuss key ideas of second language acquisition and provide participants with specific structures and tools to guide their teachers in creating a language-rich classroom that is safe and engaging.

Learn to break down instructional and management skills into small action steps, to embed deliberate practice into your coaching sessions, and to use real-time feedback to work with your teachers “live”. Based on the work of Paul Bambrick Santoyo, author of “Leverage Leadership” and “Get Better Faster”, action coaching is an instructional approach that compliments a cognitive or reflective practice.

for having conversations around setting learning targets with teachers. Participants will build knowledge and expertise through the use of a hands on process by creating a tool that can be utilized in their daily coaching practice. Learn how to create buy-in when planning, frame conversations, align activities to standards, and plan with every student in mind.

other ways to view the situation. In this session, coaches will learn how to use practices to shift perspective to open up new possibilities for their clients. Specifically, coaches will:

• Understand the impact of a single perspective has on a client’s ability to consider alternatives.
• Explore practices to shift client perspective during a coaching conversation.
• Practice strategies for shifting perspective.

the cycles to take teachers through, but what happens when you arrive on a campus where the collaborative culture, or instructional coaching is, or has been, toxic? In this session, I will share strategies that allowed me to build relationships and other tricks to overcome negative school cultures that can be difficult to coach in.

and sentence stems they currently use to design a coaching map that can be incorporated into everyday practice to create momentum and to facilitate results in coaching conversations with teachers. Coaches will think of a situation or issue for which they currently need helpful coaching language and will use a basic template to build a coaching map from the language generated by the group.

Coaches will be able to network with fellow coaches working towards common goals. We will also explore Twitter hashtags that are helpful hangouts and supports for coaches.

If so, then this session is for you. Come and participate in a variety of activities to probe deep into the understanding of non-mastered TEKS and embark on the adventure of learning.

a tightly focused, reciprocated conversation in which you’ll coach each other about taking the next steps with what you’ve learned at ICC.

Instructional coaches play a key role in helping teachers realize their visions for well-managed classrooms full of successful, motivated students. Proactive management components, paired with coaching questions to focus teacher efforts, will allow coaches to partner with the teachers they support in developing a plan for a well-managed classroom.

and will gladly invite you into their class to witness student misbehavior. This invitation actually allows you to diagnose the real problem, which is typically instructional. This session will teach coaches how to diagnose the real cause of the misbehavior, and coach teachers out of it using communication techniques, guided questions, and instructional best practices to improve first-time instruction.

all of the factors that lead to success for professional learning and coaching. Come explore strategies for implementing video at your campus or district that allows coaches not only expand their impact and build capacity, but truly empower their teachers.

What types of informal data can you collect to support them along their journey? Explore the types of data and data collection methods that will help educators monitor and adjust their progress as they work towards their goals. Walk away with strategies to collect and use objective classroom data that really makes a difference.

Are you a Jim, Joellen, Steve, Diane, or Elena?

through a 17 percentage point gain in one year using the coaching model. Learn how to use student voice, targeted questioning, and quality pedagogy to help teachers discover their current reality. Just like the ruby slippers had the power to take Dorothy home, our kids and teachers hold the tools they need to become successful. Amplify what teachers already know to unveil the innate abilities of your ELL students!

Imagine a coaching model that is directly aligned to the standards and curriculum, and supports teachers to grow in their practice. This is the definition of Student-Centered Coaching; an approach to instructional coaching that was developed by bestselling author and practicing coach, Diane Sweeney.

Join us for a keynote that will focus on Sweeney’s latest work. Specifically, how student evidence and formative assessment anchors coaching conversations in what matters. We will also explore how Student-Centered Coaching increases teacher and student clarity through the use of learning targets, success criteria, and self-evaluation by students. We don’t have time to waste by coaching around the edges, we must dig into what matters most…student learning.