Design Question 1: What is the professional doing to help establish and communicate learn goals, track
progress, and celebrate success?
Elements
K-12 Literacy Coach
For each element, activities
or artifacts could include:
Activities: professional development, PLC facilitation, data share
facilitation, modeling, coaching, co-planning, Lead Literacy Team,
etc.
Artifacts: Training Expectation Forms, agendas, professional
development materials, meeting notes, PMRN Coaching Log, etc.
(1) Communicates a clear
learning goal
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Objectives from Training Expectation Form
Goals for Workshops, PD, PLC’s, etc
Rubrics
Agendas
(2) Establishes and
monitors progress of
stakeholders
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Follow-up implementation from TEF
Coaching Cycles
Walkthrough / Classroom Observation
Checks for understanding during PD
Participant reflections
(3) Acknowledges and
celebrates progress based
on current status and
knowledge gained relative
to the learning goal
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Use of specific written or oral feedback to participants
regarding their progress toward the learning goal
Visual representation of learning over time (consens-o-gram,
consensus data, etc.)
Emails
Comments or responses to reflections
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Design Question 2: What is the professional doing to help stakeholders effectively interact with new
knowledge?
Elements
(6) Begins session by
explaining why information
is important
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Posting connections to TEF objectives, SIP goals, data, etc.
Agenda
Email prior to session
Learning goals posted on slide
(7) Organizes stakeholders
to allow for processing of
new information
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Purposeful grouping during PD
Use of collaborative structures
(8) Provides activities to
link new content
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Pre-reading used to preview new content
Graphic organizers or directed note taking
(9) Breaks the information
into small chunks
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PD Plan / Module organizer
Agendas
(10) Engages stakeholders
in summarizing activities
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Tickets out the door
Self-reflections
Design Question 3: What is the professional doing to help stakeholders practice and deepen their
understanding of new knowledge?
Elements
(11) Uses specific strategies
 Academic game
to review important
 Follow-up communication
information
 Agenda / Plan
(12) Groups stakeholders to
facilitate practice and
deepening of knowledge
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Purposeful grouping during PD
Use of collaborative structures
(13) Engages stakeholders
in identifying and
addressing barriers to
progress and/or
misconceptions
Includes
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Problem Solving Process
Action Plan
(14) Engages stakeholders
in examination of content
Design Question 4: What is the professional doing to help stakeholders generate and test hypotheses
about new knowledge?
Elements
(15 a) Interacts with
 Needs assessment
stakeholders to determine
 Survey
needs
 Data review
(15 b) Facilitates an
activator so that the
stakeholder’s identify the
importance of
generating/testing a
hypothesis or “why”
statement
(15 c) Indicates data-based
decision making involving
the problem solving process
(16) Provides time, access,
resources and guidance to
stakeholders
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Organizes and shares relevant data
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Facilitate problem solving sessions (grade level, class or
individual students)
Agenda
Action plan
Maintains a schedule to meet and work with stakeholders
Locates and shares resources to support instruction
Facilitate and Support collaborative planning
Email
Online resource support (Moodle, Edmodo, etc.)
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Design Question 5: What is the professional doing to engage stakeholders?
Elements
(17 a) Uses appropriate
activities/learning aids and
pacing techniques to engage
stakeholders
(17 b) Monitors and adjusts
to energy levels of
stakeholders
(18) Uses response rate
techniques to maintain
engagement
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Response cards
Plan illustrating technology integration
(19 a) Uses cues (tone of
voice, body position, level of
excitement
(19 b) Adjusts energy level
and makes personal
connections to the content
(20) Elicits and accepts
varying perspectives and
opinions on content, when
appropriate
Design Question 6: What is the professional doing to establish or maintain procedures?
Elements
(4) Involves others when
developing and maintaining
routines
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Collaboration with Lead Literacy Team or School Based
Leadership Team
Evidence of use of school/team norms, and/or core values
(5) Organizing the Physical
Layout of the Classroom
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Materials are prepared and ready for use
Seating fosters collaboration
Design Question 7: What is the professional doing to recognize and acknowledge adherence or lack of
adherence to rules and procedures?
Elements
(21 a) Makes eye contact
with all stakeholders and
physically occupies all
quadrants of the
environment
(21 b) Recognizes potential
sources of disruption and
deals with them immediately
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Purposeful seating plan
(22) Provides fair and
appropriate verbal,
nonverbal and/or written
feedback when rules and/or
procedures are not followed
(23) Consistently and fairly
acknowledges adherence to
rules and procedures
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Email
Design Question 8: What is the professional doing to establish and maintain effective relationships
with stakeholders?
Elements
(24 a) Engages in
 Email
discussions with
stakeholders about
events/interest in their
lives
(24 b) Builds on
stakeholders interests and
demonstrates an
understanding of their
backgrounds
(25 a) Compliments
stakeholders regarding
personal and academic
accomplishments
(25 b) Uses humor, smiles,
and proximity when
appropriate
(26 a) Interacts with
stakeholders in a calm
controlled fashion
(26 b) Does not exhibit
extremes in positive or
negative emotions
(26 c) Communicates
effectively with
stakeholders
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Email
Certificates of recognition
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Email
Newsletters
Podcasts
Moodle
Design Question 9: What is the professional doing to communicate high expectations for all
stakeholders?
Elements
(27 a) Provides nonverbal
indicators, indicating value
and respect
(27 b) Provides verbal
indicators of value and
respect
(28 a) Breaks
information/questions into
smaller parts and adapts
content/context to meet the
needs of all stakeholders, as
needed
(28 b) Corrects
misunderstood information
in a constructive and
supportive manner
(28 c) Checks for
understanding
(28 d) Clarifies information,
as needed
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Learning plan for the year or module
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Email
Newsletter
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Reflection questions
Tickets out the door
Survey
Email