Establishing a Culture of Coaching:

Building Blocks to BDA

January 8, 2014

Joanne Krett & Justin RodriguesWoodland Hills Junior High School

Christopher CatonPIIC Mentor, Intermediate Unit 3

Establishing Credibility

Establishing Credibility

• Why you? Why were you hired by your district to be an instructional coach?

Establishing Credibility• Full Building Professional Development

– Modeling instructional strategies “walk the walk”

• “Walk the Line” between teaching staff and admin

• Being the “Expert”• Building involvement• Create a functional workspace

Old Office

New Classroom

Establish Credibility: Create a workspace

Building Relationships

Building RelationshipsActivity:“SWiP and Whip” Text Rendering:

Directions:As you read the blog, capture one sentence, one word and one phrase that resonate with you.

The Feedback Loop

Feedback Loop Article from Wired Magazine http://goo.gl/x9qBl

Building Relationships

Assuming a Leadership Role

Assuming a Leadership Role

In your role as an instructional coach, how comfortable are you calling yourself a leader?

Assuming a Leadership Role

• Responsibility to lead• Spending the social capital• Part of being the “Expert” and the “Knower”• Staying current through PD

– PIIC, Local IU, District Meetings, Reading, etc• Mirror and Window

– Micro and macro vision

Coaching Focus

Coaching Focus

“I think every leader in any company is an editor. Taking all of these ideas and you’re editing them down to one cohesive story, and in my case, my job is to edit the team, so we have a great team that can produce the great work.”Twitter founder – Jack Dorsey

2011: Year One

2012: Year Two

2013: Year Three

Professional Idea Exchange (P.I.E.)•Think about some of the “lollipop moments” you’ve had as a coach that have contributed to a culture of professional growth in your building.

•Each group has been assigned one of the four elements.

•Write your best idea on a slice of pie & put the group’s “pie” together. Name it and give a reason for your analogy.

i.e. It’s a PUMPKIN pie because even when our efforts get SQUASHED,

we move sweetly forward.