Intensive Workshop Resources
Here you’ll find workbooks and resources that will deepen your workshop experience of Instructional Coaching: An Introduction.
week 1 resources
Introduction to Instructional Coaching
Workbook
Download: Week 1 Workbook →
Video
Watch: Week 1 Video →
Reading
Three Steps to Great Coaching →
Escape from the Zero Learning Zone →
Three Approaches to Coaching →
Questions for Week One
1. After reviewing the article, “The Zero Learning Zone,” what do you need to do so that you can be certain to learn as much as possible from this course?
2. After reviewing the article, “3 Steps to Great Coaching,” what questions do you have about the Impact Cycle?
3. After reviewing Jim’s video and reading “Three Approaches to Coaching,” do you believe you will be expected to conduct facilitative, dialogical, directive or some other approach to coaching? What are your thoughts about those expectations?
week 2 resources
Helping and Partnership
Workbook
Download: Week 2 Workbook →
Video
Watch: The Partnership Princples →
Reading
Progress Through Partnership →
What Good →
Why Teacher Autonomy is Central to Coaching Success →
Questions for Week Two
1. Which principles do you agree with? Which principles do you disagree with? What principles will you add?
2. What can you do to get better at working from the partnership principles?
3. What can you do to promote a school wide or district wide commitment to the principles?
week 3 resources
getting ready to coach
Workbook
Download: Week 3 Workbook →
Articles & Videos
Enrolling Teachers for Instructional Coaching →
Using Presentations to Enroll Teachers →
Role Clarity and Time Management →
The Impact Cycle →
Getting Psychologically Prepared to Coach →
Confidentiality →
Downloads
Adaptive Time Management workbook →
Questions for Week Three
1. What will you do to enroll teachers? When will you do it?
2. What is your policy for confidentiality?
3. Will you discuss your role with you principal? When will you do it?
week 4 resources
Getting a clear picture of reality
Workbook
Download: Week 4 Workbook →
Videos on The Impact Cycle
The Impact Cycle →
Reading
Questions for Instructional Coaches →
The Impact Cycle Checklist →
The PEERS Goals →
Questions for Week Four
1. Jot down notes about anything that is unclear about the Identify stage of the Impact Cycle. What is unclear?
2. How is the Impact Cycle similar or different from the way you will be expected to coach?
3. What questions do you have about how to implement the impact cycle?
week 5 resources
Learn & Improve
Workbook
Download: Week 5 Workbook →
Atul Gawande
“The Checklist,” from The New Yorker, December 3, 2007
“Personal Best,” from The New Yorker, September 26, 2011
TED Talk, “Want to get great at something? Get a coach.”
Reading
The Impact Cycle Checklist →
Dialogical Explanations →
Everything You’ve Heard About Checklists is Wrong →
Resources from The Impact Cycle →
Week 5 Questions
1. If you have time for only one thing next week, please review the Impact Cycle Checklist. Jot down any questions you might have about The Impact Cycle. Please bring your questions to our session.
2. Now that you have seen the entire Impact Cycle, please revisit last week’s questions. How is The Impact Cycle similar or different from the way you will be expected to coach? What questions do you have about how to implement the impact cycle? Please bring your questions to our session.
week 6 resources
Gathering Data
Workbook
Download: Week 6 Workbook →
Forms & Resources
Download: Forms for Gathering Data →
Download: Additional Data Forms →
Reading
Students on the Margins, written by Jim Knight →
Week 6 Questions
1. Do you think it is important to gather engagement data? Why? Why not?
2. What kinds of data do you think you will end up gathering next year?
week 7 resources
Creating An Instructional Playbook
Workbook
Download: Week 7 Workbook →
Downloads
Model Instructional Playbook →
Reading
The Instructional Playbook →
“Everything you’ve heard about checklists is wrong” →
Books and Resources
High-Impact Instruction →
High-Impact Teaching Strategies, Victoria State Department of Education →
Ten Mindframes for Visible Learning (Hattie & Zierer, 2018) →
The Skillful Teacher (Saphier, Haley-Speca, et al, 2018) →
The New Art and Science of Teaching (Marzano, 2017) →
Week 7 Tasks
1. Create a draft Table of Contents for strategies you will use as an instructional coach.
2. Create a draft checklist for one of the strategies on your table of contents.