Student-Centered Coaching: Planning In-theMoment Practices
Goals and Outcomes
Overarching Objectives of the July 2014 Network Team Institute
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Identify characteristics of student-centered coaching.
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Identify meta-planning teaching practices in order to ameliorate student bottlenecks within NY 9-12 curriculum modules.
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Identify meta-planning coaching practices in order to support the learning of teachers and adolescents during coaching cycles.
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Design a coaching cycle to support adolescent learning in NY 9-12 curriculum modules.
High-Level Purpose of this Session
The purpose of this session is for participating secondary school instructional coaches to use a collaborative planning tool to plan a studentcentered coaching cycle with English teachers who plan to teach a NYSED Module.
Related Learning Experiences
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Student-Centered Coaching: Identifying Student Learning Needs and Potential Interventions
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New York State Common Core
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Student-Centered Coaching: Identifying Coaching Tensions and Potential Practices
Key Points
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Student-centered instructional coaching with a “heavy coaching” focus involves inquiry for teacher and coach.
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Secondary instructional coaches can use situated coaching practices—inculidng shifting stances—to design collaboration which utilizes the
knowledge and expertise of both teachers and coach in order to respond to student learning needs.
Session Outcomes
What do we want participants to be able to do as a result of this session?
How will we know that they are able to do this?
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Identify coaching tensions within an existing teacher collaboration.
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Aligned survey question
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Identify stages in an inquiry-based coaching cycle.
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Aligned survey question
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Design coaching practices to develop teacher ability to respond to student writing
needs.
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Aligned survey question
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New York State Common Core
Session Overview
Section
Introduction
Time
5 min
Identify Coaching
Tensions in an
Existing
Collaboration
30 min
Identify Stages in an
Inquiry-Based
Coaching Cycle
15 min
Design StudentCentered Coaching
Cycle
45 min
Reflection and
Closing
5 min
100 mins
Overview
Preview the session and
objectives.
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Review the nature of coaching
tensions.
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Identify coaching tensions
within an existing collaboration.
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Prepared Resources
Session PowerPoint
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Session PowerPoint
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Student-Centered Coaching
Cycle Planning Tool
Participants will identify the
stages of inquiry during a
student-centered coaching
cycle.
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Session PowerPoint
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Student-Centered Coaching
Cycle Planning Tool
Participants will use the
coaching cycle planning tool to
design an upcoming
collaboration with teachers.
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Session PowerPoint
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Student-Centered Coaching
Cycle Planning Tool
Participants reflect on learning
and consider implications for
coaching practice.
Session PowerPoint
Total for this session
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Facilitator Preparation
Position mic runners at
various spots around
the room for report out.
New York State Common Core
Session Roadmap
Section: Introduction
In this section, participants will review the objectives for this coaching
strand and the third session.
Slide Time
64
Picture
1 min
Materials used include:
Session PowerPoint
Script/Activity directions
Placeholder
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Slide Time
65
Picture
3 min
Script/Activity directions
Overview the learner objectives.
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Slide Time
66
1 min
Total
time:
5 min
Picture
Script/Activity directions
Preview the organization of the session.
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Section: Identify Coaching Tensions in an Existing Collaboration
In this section, participants will identify coaching tensions within an
existing collaboration.
Slide
Time
67
5 min
Picture
Materials used include:
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Session PowerPoint
Student-Centered Coaching Cycle Planning Tool
Script/Activity directions
Review the nature of coaching tensions.
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Slide
Time
68
25
min
Total
time:
30
mins
Picture
Script/Activity directions
Participants use Part A of the Student-Centered Coaching Cycle Planning
Tool to record notes about a recent collaboration. Then, participants should
use the protocol to discuss a recent collaboration with an emphasis on the
coaching tensions.
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Section: Identify Stages in an Inquiry-Based Coaching Cycle
In this section, participants will identify the stages of inquiry during a
student-centered coaching cycle.
Slide
Time
70
3 min
Picture
Materials used include:
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Session PowerPoint
Student-Centered Coaching Cycle Planning Tool
Script/Activity directions
Present the four stages of inquiry during a coaching cycle.
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Slide
Time
71
2 min
Picture
Script/Activity directions
Present the four stages of inquiry during a coaching cycle emphasizing the
events during each stage.
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Slide
Time
72
10
min
Total
time:
15
mins
Picture
Script/Activity directions
Discuss how inquiry could impact each characteristic of student-centered
coaching.
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Section: Design Student-Centered Coaching Cycle
In this section, participants will use the coaching cycle planning tool to
design an upcoming collaboration with teachers.
Slide
Time
73
0 min
Picture
Materials used include:
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Session PowerPoint
Student-Centered Coaching Cycle Planning Tool
Script/Activity directions
Placeholder
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Slide
Time
74
20
min
Picture
Script/Activity directions
Participants will design an upcoming student-centered coaching cycle with
English teachers during the 2014-2015 school year.
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Slide
Time
75
20
min
Picture
Script/Activity directions
Participants will annotate a sample coaching plan with emphasis on coaching
practices. If needed, have participants do this prior to designing their own
coaching cycle.
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Slide
Time
76
5 min
Picture
Script/Activity directions
Explain the possible use of student protocol for collecting formative
assessment and maintaining a student-centered coaching emphasis.
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Slide
Time
57
10
min
Total
time:
55
mins
Picture
Script/Activity directions
With the coaching practice of interjecting in class discourse, discuss the
potential “potholes” involving students and involving Ani. Emphasize potential
practices to ameliorate the potential tensions in the transcript or other
potentinal potholes which could occur in a collaboration.
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Section: Reflection and Closing
In this section, participants will reflect on learning and consider
implications for coaching practice.
Slide
Time
59-60
5 min
Total
time:
5
mins
Picture
Materials used include:
Session PowerPoint
Script/Activity directions
Discuss the four big ideas of student-centered coaching and answer any
questions about the relationship between coaching tensions and “in-themoment” coaching practices.
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Turnkey Materials Provided
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Session PowerPoint
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Student-Centered Coaching Cycle Planning Tool Class Transcript
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