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and then head over to build your own breakfast tacos before our Opening Keynote Session.

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.

How can your instructional coaching most impact student learning? What should be your first step in foraging a stronger relationship with your principal? Which teacher feedback processes are most successful? Join Joellen Killion in the Reflection Lounge for a chance to chat, laugh, and share solutions for today’s coaching environment.

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.

Do you have teachers who are overwhelmed and feel like they can’t find the time? In this session we will explore what research says about coaching time and effectiveness, help you reflect on your current reality,  as well as give you the tools to track and transform the time you spend daily. We will also explore the ‘overwhelmed’ teacher and supply tools and strategies for support.

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.

Are you interested in analyzing the impact of providing feedback as a form of data or using select paraphrase techniques to structure students’ thinking? This workshop will immerse you in the benefits of integrating coaching skills into instructional practice.  After the workshop, you will leave with ways to engage in student-friendly protocols that promote effective feedback; strategies for asking thought provoking questions, and discover the power of active listening.

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.

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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.

As an expert in Hattie’s work on Visible Learning, Steve Ventura can field questions concerning teacher efficacy, how coaches can use Visible Learning for coaching cycles, or how educators can attain more results faster. Or, imagine getting the chance to ask Dr. Nathan Lang-Raad questions about the seven daily drivers of instructional coaching, or to share and discuss new ideas on how to structure learning and school.  Join Steve and Nathan in the Reflection Lounge to continue learning and laughing in this informal, intimate setting

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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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

• Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
• Angela Lee Duckworth – Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
• Michael Stevens: Why do we ask questions?

All three speakers implore the audience to continue seeking and learning to know more.  Adichie says you can’t use a single story to speak for everyone in a group; you must actively look for more stories. Duckworth says you can’t believe that knowledge is finite and fixed; you should actively cultivate grit using a growth mindset. Stevens says you shouldn’t stop asking why once you’re an adult; you must ask questions to discover more about what you don’t know. Take some time to watch, learn, and discuss your thoughts on these topics with your colleagues.

or to share and discuss new ideas on how to structure learning and school. Or, imagine spending more time with Steve Ventura  to dive deeper into the Culture of Evidence Toolkit for Instructional Coaches. As an expert in Hattie’s work on Visible Learning, Steve Ventura can field questions concerning teacher efficacy, how coaches can use Visible Learning for coaching cycles, or how educators can attain more results faster. Join Steve and Nathan in the Reflection Lounge to continue learning and laughing in this informal, intimate setting.

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.

appetizers, and live music from Brandon Alan and his band. Join us for this Jam Session, compliments of TeachBoost and the R13 Coaching Team.

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.

Over the last three years, Region 13 and Corwin have built a long-term relationship and have partnered together to take what works best in the way of teaching, learning, and research and apply it to professional practice so that every student learns not by chance, but by design. In this session, we will use the evolution of Region 13’s partnership with Corwin as the lens by which to discuss what it takes to construct innovative, sustained, and successful professional development models throughout complex educational systems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Through strategic and purposeful questioning, coaches and instructional leaders are able to partner with PLCs in meaningful work, empowering teams to create solutions they believe in and to work collaboratively toward collective action. Imagine adding question stems to your coaching toolbox that will help you differentiate and build the capacity of any team and give you the confidence to respond to any scenario.  Join us as we learn, collaborate, and play a fun game of Cards for Coaching: PLC Edition!

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 how best to support teachers with building deeper, conceptual understanding that empowers students to use their learning beyond school walls.  Or, imagine getting the chance to talk personally and openly with Diane Sweeney about your coaching practice and ways you can put student learning at the center. Join Julie and Diane in the Reflection Lounge to continue learning and making connections in this informal, intimate setting.

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to learn about vulnerability and its impact on schools and classrooms. Join us for a shared screening as we explore the question:  What would it mean for our schools and classrooms if we showed up for tough, honest conversations about what it takes to bring our best, most authentic selves to work? A daring classroom is a place where leaders, coaches, teachers, and students commit to choosing courage over comfort, choosing what is right over what is fun, fast or easy and practicing values rather than professing them. Take some time to watch, learn, and discuss your thoughts with your colleagues.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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!

and ways you can put student learning at the center. Or, imagine spending more time with Julie Stern to ask your burning questions about learning transfer and how best to support teachers with building deeper, conceptual understanding that empowers students to use their learning beyond school walls. Join Diane and Julie in the Reflection Lounge to continue learning and making connections in this informal, intimate setting.

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.