This series includes year-long, bite-sized virtual learning from September to February, including:
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Virtual Lunch & Learn sessions with Steve Barkley
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An online resource filled with blogs, videos, articles and research for your exploration throughout the course.
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Two personalized coaching sessions with an ESC 13 Instructional Coach to develop your desired outcomes for the course and debrief your insights from the live sessions, resource materials, and daily experiences at your school.
Receive 10% off if you register before Friday, September 17th, and use the discount code: EBSB10
Course #1
Roles and Expectations of a Responsive Coach: Identity, Impact, and Expansion to PLC
Lunch & Learns:
Part 1 - Developing Your Identity as an Instructional Coach
Sept 23, 2021 11:00 - 12:00 CST
- Identifying what IC can be and not be
- Trust and Vulnerability
- Importance of Coach-Principal Partnership
Part 2 - Ensuring Your Impact as an Instructional Coach
Oct 7, 2021 - 11:00 - 12:00 CST
- Student Learning Production Behaviors
- Coaching Observation, Feedback and Modeling
Part 3 - Expanding Your Coaching in PLCs
Oct 21, 2021 - 11:00 - 12:00 CST
- Coaching in PLC Team (The Role of IC in PLC)
- Goal Setting and Studying Student Work
Register for this course independently: FA2146308
Course #2
Actions of a Responsive Coach: Coaching Conferences, Paraphrasing, and Feedback
Lunch & Learns
Part 1 - Establishing Focus Through Coaching Conferences
Nov 4, 2021 - 11:00 - 12:00 CST
- Pre-conferences, conferring, questioning
- Uncovering teacher's agenda, thinking,
- Establish a focus for post conference
Part 2 - Growing Your Communication Skills as an Instructional Coach
Nov 18, 2021 - 11:00-12:00 CST
- Paraphrasing
- Go slow to go fast
- Gripes to Goal
Part 3 - Providing Feedback to Support Continuous Teacher Growth
Dec 2, 2021 - 11:00-12:00 CST
- Similarities/differences in compliments, praise and approval
- How and when do coaches offer suggestions in post-conference
- How do post-conferences turn into pre-conferences
Register for this course independently: FA2146309
Course #3
Skills of a Responsive Coach: Questioning, Questioning, Questioning
Lunch & Learns
Part 1 - Scaffolding Coaching Questions
Jan 20, 2022 - 11:00-12:00 CST
- Question for Life/Learning
- Value of Questions
- Perceptions, induction, etc.
Part 2 - Using Questions to Drive Reflection and Goal-Setting
Feb 3, 2022 - 11:00-12:00 CST
- How do appraisal and evaluation questions compare
- What questions are most likely to drive reflection and goal-setting
- Questions in post-conference -> pre-conference
Part 3 - Facilitating Conversation and Exploration Through Question Sequence in PLCs
Feb 24, 2022 - 11:00-12:00 CST
- Facilitating Conversation and exploration through sequencing of questions
- Explore planning process around spark, wonder, collection decision
- Modeling and debriefing of PLC questions
Register for this course independently: SP2246310