The Importance of Developing a
Common Language and Effective
Communication
Education Transformation Office
Common Board Configuration (CBC)
DATE: June 11, 2013
BELL RINGER: Acronyms –
Test Your Knowledge
BENCHMARK:
Communication
OBJECTIVE: Participants
VOCABULARY:
EXIT SLIP: Review
-communication
-feedback
-relationship
Essential Question
AGENDA:
I Do: Model communication skills
We Do: Practice listening skills
They Do: HIGHER
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partner,
brainstorm
QUESTIONS:
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communication
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How
can I communicate
effectively?
HOME LEARNING:
Review today’s
lesson and reflect
on how you would
implement if you
were a coach next
year.
Common Language in ETO
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Purpose
• Why do we need common language?
• How do we develop a common language?
• How can we communicate effectively?
Why Do We Need
Common Language?
Words
Group 1: Foot, solid, root, peck, square, power, product, yard, mean
Group 2: Motion, force, fault, degree, wave, current, resistance
Group 3: Key, bill, race, legend, product, plain, ruler, crop, run,
cabinet
Group 4: Case, mood, tense, article, subject, tone, romance, dash,
stress, voice
What are Some Terms Your Reading
Leadership Team Might Need to Explore
Together?
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Screening assessment
Progress monitoring
Diagnostic assessment
Dynamic assessment
Static assessment
Evaluation
Phonological awareness
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Fluency
Expressive vocabulary
Receptive vocabulary
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Comprehension
Metacognition
Sources of information
Pragmatic working system
Lexical working system
Schematic working system
Semantic working system
Syntactic working system
Graphophonic working system
Writing as a process
Reading as a process
Literacy
Points to Ponder
• What are the implications of this
information for your Reading Leadership Team?
• What information will you share during your
Reading Leadership Team’s planning time today?
• How will your Reading Leadership Team
identify terms that need to clarify as a group?
• Should a definition be provided or just a
list for consideration? Why might it matter?
• How could this common
language be developed school-wide?
Effective Communication
Article: What Teachers Want from
their Coaches
How does communication play a role in these expectations from
the teachers?
1. Build Trust
2. Demonstrate Competence
3. Give Respectful, Specific Feedback
4. Avoid Assumptions about Individual Abilities
5. Consider Various Learning Styles
6. Make Change Meaningful by Empowering Teachers
7. Take Time to Build a Relationship
“No significant learning occurs without a significant
relationship” – James Comer (1995)
Language of Coaching
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Tell me about your purpose in/when …
Tell me about your lesson/focus of…
Describe the students’ behavior when . . .
After this lesson, can you describe how the outcomes matched
your goals?
Were there any shifts in your instruction?
How did you figure that out?
What challenges did you encounter in the lesson?
How are you planning to go about this…
What are you planning for with the next lesson…
“What Teachers Want from their Coaches”
The Principal Coach Relationship
 An effective principal/coach relationship can be
achieved by having the coach and principal:
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Collaborate
Create an action plan
Develop or participate in the Reading Leadership Team
Review and discussing the coach’s log and calendar
Attend common planning to know what are the look fors
when he/she conducts their walkthroughs
 Communicate and share ideas with the leadership team
The Principal can…
 Support and protect the role of the coach
 Share a common vision for the coach’s role with the whole
faculty
 Protect the coach’s time
 Guard some time for professional development for the coach
and by the coach
 Revise and guide the coaches through the discussion of their
weekly logs
 Create tier action plans to guide coaches and administrators
work
Leadership
Team
Coaching
Model
Questions & Discussions