Coaching for Learning
June Online Meeting
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Agenda
• Online Meeting Tools
for Participants
• Coaching for Learning
Expectations
– Online Monthly Meeting
– Google Site
– Participate in Edmodo
Group
– Supporting Collaborative
Teaming Practices at
school
• Coaching for Learning
Vision
• Coaching for School
Growth Model
• Teaming Structures
• Readings/ Assignments
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Coaching for Learning Expectations
• Attend Online Meetings
– Real time: attend if at all possible
– Recording: Facilitators will email all team
members the link to the recording so that they
can revisit the content. Participants who are
unable to attend the scheduled meeting should
submit a reflection document to their Google site
for the meeting that they missed (full and specific
reflection required for graduate credit).
Coaching for Learning Expectations
• Google site:
– Create Google site.
– Fill out Google form for participants to
provide their first name, last name, email
address and their Google site link.
Personal Google Site Required
• Singular & private place to “house” your
reflections, data and assignments
• Structure for you to find and submit data
that might be requested from WVDE for
evaluation purposes
• Requirement for graduate credit
Google Site Format
• Home page
– Name, coaching role, county, schools assigned, contact
information
• Pages:
– Page for each Online meeting
– Page for each school that you work with
• Decorate any way you choose. The site will be yours
after the Coaching for Learning year-long PD is over.
• Invite Linda Bragg (lnbragg@access.k12.wv.us) as a
viewer or collaborator of your Google site. After the
end-of-year evaluation, you may “uninvite” Linda and
the use the site as you choose.
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Sample Google Site
https://sites.google.com/site/c4l121103/home
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Send Google Site Link to Linda
by completing her online Google form.
1. Go to your Google Site.
2. Copy the web address of your site.
3. Go to the online form at
http://goo.gl/c2k1D.
4. Complete the form. (Don’t forget
to paste the web address in the
appropriate box.
Google Site Q & A
Coaching for Learning Expectations
Participate in the Coaching for Learning
Edmodo group.
• Respond to the monthly discussion question
posted by Linda.
• Create an Edmodo account.
• Join the Coaching for Learning Edmodo group.
(Coaching for Learning code: k31a8j)
• Join the Edmodo group for your team. Obtain
code for your team from your facilitator.
Joining Edmodo Groups
• Log into Edmodo.
• Click Join.
• Type in the Edmodo
group code provided
to you.
• Coaching for
• Obtain Edmodo group
Learning Group is
code for your team
from your facilitator.
Code: k31a8j
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Coaching for Learning Expectations
Commitment to working with a school that
is willing to engage in collaborative
teaming practices (data-based decisionmaking, shared inquiry, etc.).
Coaching for Learning Vision
Coaching for School Growth
Lever: Building a Collaborative Culture
• Facilitates collaboration through teaming
processes.
• Supports the effective use of teams in the
continuous improvement processes—
time/team structures and addressing the
critical questions of teaching and learning).
Thinking about Teaming Structures
Back at the Ranch (at the schools
where you will work)
• How are Collaborative
Teams (CTs) organized?
• What is the thinking for the
CT structure?
• Is every teacher on a CT?
• How are the CT
leaders/facilitators chosen?
Central Office
Administrative Team
School Leadership Team
Collaborative
Team
Focus
Team(s)
Collaborative
Team
Student
Assistance
Team
Collaborative
Team
Local School
Improvement
Council
Collaborative
Team
Faculty
Senate
Administrative Team
School Leadership Team
Collaborative
Team
Collaborative
Team
Collaborative
Team
Collaborative
Team
What are our teams doing?
Imagine your school has
structures in place and
teachers have time to
meet…NOW WHAT?
Critical Questions
of Teaching and Learning
1. What do all students need to know, understand and
be able to do in this lesson or unit of study?
1.5 -- What CORE instruction will best facilitate the learning?
2. How will we know if they have learned it?
3. How will we respond if students do not learn?
3.5 -- What TARGETED or INTENSIVE instruction will likely have the
most impact, given the evidence of student learning?
4. How will we respond when they already know it?
4.5 -- What projects or collaborative studies will likely have
the most impact for enrichment or acceleration, given the
evidence of student learning?
Assignment:
Create your Google Site
(and pages)
• Invite Linda Bragg (lnbragg@access.k12.wv.us)
• Copy the URL of your site into Linda’s Google
Form http://goo.gl/c2k1D
Assignment:
Obtaining a Deep Understanding of
West Virginia’s Model of Coaching for
School Growth
• Read “Coaching for Learning Vision”
• Using the format of your choice, respond to
the document in a manner that reflects your
understanding of the Coaching for School
Growth Model. Post your response to the June
Online Meeting page of your individual Google
Site .
Assignment
Check out the allthingsplc website. It has a
wealth of resources about collaborative teaming
practices (professional learning communities).
Find one resource from the website that you
think would be particularly helpful. Post it in the
Coaching for Learning Edmodo group.
www.allthingsplc.info/
Assignment
Discussion Question
Please post a response to the
discussion question posted by Linda
Bragg in the Edmodo Coaching for
Learning Group.
Reading & Reflection Assignment
Read Chapter 3, Learning By
Doing (about Critical
Questions 1 & 2). Using the
Triangle, Square, Circle
Graphic organizer, reflect
upon the reading. Post your
full and focused response to
the June Online Meeting
page of your Google Site .
Chapter 3 (59-93)
Coaching for
School Growth
See You Online in Edmodo and in the
July Meeting!