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Coaching Critical Feature:
Technical Assistance
Catherine Claes
MiBLSi Content Development Specialist
Delta-Schoolcraft Intermediate School District Consultant
November 2, 2011.
“The concept of a coach is slippery.
Coaches are not teachers, but they teach.
They’re not your boss – but they can be
bossy. Mainly, they observe, they judge,
and they guide.”
Atul Gawande
Intended Outcomes for the Session
1.Participants will gain an understanding of the
critical component of coaching: Technical Assistance
2.Participants will identify examples of Technical
Assistance
3.Participants will identify how Technical Assistance
support changes as schools/districts progress
through the Stages of Implementation
4.Participants will build a plan of support for one
school/district in the appropriate Stage of
Implementation
Agenda
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Coaching Critical Component: Technical Assistance
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Description
Examples
Tools for Technical Assistance Support
Stages of Implementation
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Review
Gradual Release of Responsibility/Scaffolding
Examples of Technical Assistance Support at Each Stage
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I Do It – Exploration
We Do It – Installation
You Do It with your group – Initial Implementation, Elaboration,
Continuous Regeneration
You Do It independently – Choose a school or district
Reflections/Wrap-up
Technical Assistance: Description
Technical assistance provides guidance to move
forward through stages of implementation in a
purposeful skill building process to allow for the
gradual release of responsibility from the coach to the
team while ensuring the building of capacity. This may
involve specific suggestions for action planning and
task completion. Coaches may need to model a databased decision making process or may need to
provide help with specific implementation tools such
as conducting assessments and using this information
in action planning. This may also involve the coach as
a “performance technologist” in identifying and
addressing performance problems regarding
implementation of the identified practices with fidelity.
Technical Assistance: Examples
•Assist with the use of practice profiles and
systems/process/fidelity measures to communicate
critical features of implementation that are urgent
and a priority based on student outcome data and
translate into specific action items or
implementation plans
•Provide scaffolded supports to assist the team in
getting started and staying on track with
data/systems/and practices for implementing a
multi-tiered model of supports. For example:
•Model the use of data for decision making when meeting
with leadership teams
•Prompt and guide team through the use of data for
decision making
•Provide systematic feedback to the team as they use
data for decision making
Tools for Technical Assistance
Support of Implementation
•Assessment Binder
•Practice Profiles
•Team Implementation Checklists
•Grade Level Team Meeting Facilitator Guides
•Follow-up Activity Worksheets
•Behavior Matrix
•Tier 2/3 Tracking Forms
•Flowcharts for Process Outcome Measures, SWIS, and
Universal Screening
•Committee Audit
•Start the School Year Checklist
•Daily and Component Intervention Fidelity Form
•And many more!!!!
Stages of Implementation
Exploration/
Adoption
Development
Commitment
Installation
Creating the
systems and
materials to
prepare for
implementation;
Set Up Data
Systems
Initial
Implementation
Provide
Significant
Support to
Implementers
Elaboration
Embedding
within
Standard
Practice
Continuous
Regeneration
Improvements:
Increase
Efficiency and
Effectiveness
As you coach through the stages, there is a gradual release of responsibility
from the coach to the team…build independence and you build capacity!
Coaching through the Stages
Up-Front Coaching: Trust and Relationships
Building Common Knowledge & Experience
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The ongoing foundation for a professional learning
Committing to a learning relationship – grow together
I Do – We Do – Debrief
Beside Coaching: Risk-Taking
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Coach – Builds co-thinking
Coach – Builds capacity
Team - Transitions to guided practice w/ coaching support
I Do – We Do – You Do Together – Debrief
Behind Coaching:
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Coach – Refines and builds independence
Guided practice with coaching support (you do together)
Team refines implementation with coaching feedback
I Do – We Do – You Do Together – You Do - Debrief
Gradual Release of Responsibility
Gradual Release of Responsibility
COACH RESPONSIBILITY
“I do it”
Modeling
Guided
Practice
“We do it”
Collaborative
Independent
“You do it
together”
“You do it
alone”
LEADERSHIP TEAM/TEACHER
RESPONSIBILITY
Fisher, D., & Frey, N.
Technical Assistance during
Exploration
Exploration/Adoption
Building Awareness
Assessing Potential
Match
Developing
Commitment
Deciding to Adopt
Establish rapport, trust, & relationships
Provide learning experiences – Build
knowledge
Ask Questions
Answer questions
Promote thinking
Understand political agendas/dynamics
Anticipate barriers
Provide leadership, gentle pressure, &
support
At this point, you may utilize various articles
to build knowledge, use the website to build
understanding of the MiBLSi/RtI model,
teams may complete a Committee Audit,
and Braiding Initiatives to determine how
RtI compliments other initiatives.
Technical Assistance during
Installation
Installation
Creating the systems
and materials to
prepare for
implementation; Set Up
Data Systems,
Structural Supports in
place
Activity
• With your table discuss your given Stage
of Implementation
• Come up with examples of what Technical
Assistance could look like at that stage.
What tools might you use?
• Be prepared to share out to the group
Activity
Planning Technical Assistance
•Think of the schools/districts you currently support
and choose one to be the focus for your planning
•What stage of implementation is that school/district
currently working through?
•What activities would provide Technical Assistance to
move this school/district forward?
•What tools would be appropriate to use to
accomplish the work?
Reflections & Wrap-up
•With your partner share
•One way you have provided technical support
to your schools
•One way you can improve the technical support
you provide to your schools
•Share the plan of technical support you
developed
“There was a moment in sports when
employing a coach was unimaginable – and
then came a time when not doing so was
unimaginable. We care about results in
sports, and if we care half as much about
results in schools and in hospitals we may
reach the same conclusion.”
Atul Gawande
SB-CEU Information
The code for Critical Feature of Coaching:
Technical Assistance session is
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Please visit the survey station in the lobby
during lunch, breaks, or after the last
conference session.