Coaching Programs
Promise of Coaching Institute
Background and Purpose
Learn from nationally-acclaimed author and coach Katherine Casey about the role of content-focused coaching in improving classroom practice. This two-day interactive session is designed to deepen educators’ understanding about what coaches need to know and be able to do and how to set up coaching work for success.
The Institute is open to practitioners from all grade levels and content areas. We strongly encourage participants to attend with colleagues who can help them transfer the work to their particular contexts. Many participants value the opportunity to collaborate with a site- or district-based team (e.g. a principal and a coach from the same school or a group of district literacy coaches and their supervisor). All individuals are welcome—regardless of experience.
Program Design
This two-day interactive session will engage participants in a variety of ways—i.e. personal reflection, partner and table talk, reading and discussing professional texts, examining coaching artifacts, and analyzing videos of both teaching and coaching practice.
All participants will receive a notebooks with sessions materials (agendas, handouts, etc.), a copy of Katherine Casey's book, Literacy Coaching: The Essentials, and other professional texts and resources.
Goals for Day 1:
- Establish self-selected goal(s) for the Institute
- Build connections among Institute participants
- Reflect on how we learn best and connect our experiences to implications for coaching
- Reflect on our own professional development experiences and review what research reveals about how people learn
- Combine own learning and professional development experiences with research to name implications for coaching
- View a pre-coaching conversation
- Explore what coaches need to know and be able to do
- Learn about best practices in site-embedded professional development
- Reflect on the day
Goals for Day 2:
- Explore the role of school and district leaders in supporting the work of coaching
- Take a closer look at classroom coaching
- Observe a teacher’s lesson to determine leverage points
- Observe a coaching conversation about the teacher’s lesson
- Observe the coach demonstrating a lesson
- Observe the coach and teacher debriefing the lesson and determining next steps
- Learn about models of coaching practice
- Reflect on the Institute
Program Outcomes
Participants of the Promise of Coaching Institute will:
- Discuss what research reveals about how people learn
- View, discuss, and name the pedagogy of coaching
- Explore what coaches need to know and be able to do
- Learn about best practices in site-embedded professional development
- Learn about models of coaching practice
- Describe the role of school and district leaders in supporting the work of coaching
- Reflect on the implications for coaching practice at their own sites.
Program Schedule
Date |
Location |
January 8-9, 2009 |
University of Washington Botanical Gardens - Seattle, WA |
January 29-30, 2009 |
DoubleTree Hotel - Lloyd Center, Portland, OR |
Registration
Click here to register
Tentative Schedule
Day 1
7:45am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30am Opening
12pm-1pm Lunch Break*
4:00pm Closing
Day 2
8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:30am Opening
12pm-1pm Lunch Break*
4:00pm Closing
*Participants will be on their own for lunch.
Please check back soon for logistical information.
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