Target Audience: New and experienced instructional coaches, administrators interested in developing a coach approach.

Course Description

Dates: August 13, November 11, 2021, January 12, March 16, and May 5.

Time: 9:00-3:30 (light breakfast/lunch provided at in-person sessions)

Cost: $1,475 (3 Graduate Credits from Saint Michael’s College)

NEW! We are offering the opportunity to invite an administrator to attend all or part of that first session to allow them to get on the same page. Please indicate on the registration if you will bring a guest and write their name in the comment box or send an email at a later date if unknown at this time

This course is designed to meet the learning needs of coaches with varying levels of experience. The learning opportunities are designed to fit within Jim Knight’s framework for Instructional Coaching and the Instructional Coaching Practice Standards developed by the New Teacher Center.

Throughout the course, participants engage in coaching cycles both as a coach and as a coachee as they dig deeper into their own coaching practice and goals. The individual sessions are structured to provide participants with opportunities to reflect, address problems of practice (or “coaching conundrums”), and share resources and materials that will improve their effectiveness as a coach. Using a cohort approach, participants will connect with one another and other skilled practitioners who can speak to meeting the varied expectations of those in a coaching role.

Through this course, participants will:

Deepen their understanding of the processes and protocols involved in facilitating an instructional coaching cycle;
Explore ways to engage teachers in collaborative, instructionally-focused, problem-solving conversations and reflective analysis to promote teacher agency.
Design a professional learning plan (PLP) outlining goals for coaching.
Understand, reflect on, and strategically respond to problems of practice associated with instructional coaching.
Contribute to the development of a collaborative Instructional Playbook that can be used during coaching cycles.

Text: Jim Knight’s Corwin books: Better Conversations: Coaching Ourselves and Each Other to be more Credible, Caring and Connected and The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching

Facilitator:

Ellen Dorsey, WCUUSD Instructional Coach

Instructional Coaching Academy