Target Audience: School leaders.

Research indicates the most effective type of professional development is personalized instructional coaching. This session focuses on best practices on coaching – lessons, PLCs, and leadership teams.

The purpose of this workshop is to provide an overview for instructional coaching including identifying high leverage areas of strength and growth as well as using questioning to promote self-reflection. Tested in the field for over a decade with countless examples of significantly improving teachers’ performance and student achievement, the Coaching for Change model is undergirded by three principles including:

• building teacher trust,
• using a growth mindset, and
• calibrating coaches.

Participants will:

1.    Learn the Coaching for Change model which they can immediately utilize in their schools.
2.    How video is an essential tool for receiving and giving feedback.
3.    Analyze the current coaching in their buildings and create an action plan identifying specific hurdles for implementing an aligned coaching system in schools.
4.    Analyze examples of coaching and debrief the areas of strength and growth as well as how the coach could improve.

Session is held in English

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