Region 13's E-Campus

The Impact Cycle Session 2

Presented by Michelle Harris

Based on The Impact Cycle (2017) by Jim Knight, this workshop describes the coaching cycle proposed for instructional coaches. All teachers, schools, and classrooms face their own unique challenges. An established process for guiding the coaching experience ensures that instructional coaches have all of the tools they need to help teachers set and achieve their goals. The Impact Cycle–the product of 20 years of ICG research, (see instructionalcoaching.com/research)– provides a framework for any coaching scenario. Participants in this workshop will learn why the cycle is successful, and gain experience using it through examples and guided exercises.   Participants will:

• Participants will work with the facilitator to explore their success with the goal that was set at the end of Impact Cycle Session 1.
• Participants examine how PEERS goals contrast with how they currently set goals with teachers. They analyze how they might use the Identify Questions with teachers.
• Participants practice using the Identify Questions on a piece of classroom video. (They alternately role-play the parts of teacher and coach in using the questions.)
• Participants debrief on what it is like using the questions and whether it is different from the way they currently coach.
• Facilitator will recap the Identify stage to show how it leads to the Learn stage. Facilitator will explain the concept of an instructional playbook as key in helping teachers to choose strategies to meet goals, the 3 components of a playbook, and how they can be collaboratively developed.
• Participants discuss their own playbooks or how they should create one and what that process should look like.

Participants will need to bring their copy of the Impact Cycle and the accompanying workbook from Session 1.