- Need-to-know
- Motivation
- Student-centered
- Relevancy-oriented
- Celebrating wins – Incorporate shoutouts and celebrations into your staff culture.
- Engaging parents and community – Host a family innovation night.
- Fostering teacher leadership – Engage innovation advocates to support peers.
- Telling your story – Create a social media video channel or page to share bright spots.
- Using video calls to coach outside of school hours.
- Meeting with teachers during professional development days.
- Choosing to work with tech savvy teachers each cycle.
- Finding times to meet during lunch periods or assemblies.
- Are there items that can be removed from the coach’s plate altogether?
- Does the coach enjoy this task?
- Does this task need to be completed right away?
- Does this task need to be completed by the coach?
- Is there someone else who can do this task instead of the coach?
- Step 1 – Write down your strategic goals.
- Step 2 – Write down ways that coaching is helping meet the strategic goals.
- Step 3 – Brainstorm support for each goal.
- Step 4 – Identify high-impact action items.
- Step 5 – Determine evidence of completion.
- Step 1 – Work with advocates to plan an activity that shares Impactful Technology Use with others.
- Step 2 – Work with advocates as needed to implement the activity.
- Step 3 – Plan several check-in points to meet and reflect with advocates.
- Step 4 – Celebrate advocates’ work and accomplishments.
- Maintain eye contact when teachers are speaking, and wait for a pause before responding. – Give your full attention
- The teacher says, “My students are always off-task.” A Certified Coach paraphrases as, “I hear that you want to make sure your students are focused on success.” – Assume positive intent
- Avoid responding with what you would do, but paraphrase teacher statements for clarity only. – Listen non-judgmentally
- Using student work during a meeting to guide the conversation. – Use references
- The coach and administrator
- The coach, teacher and administrator
- Teachers only
- Innovation advocates only
- The administrator only
- The administrator only.
- The coach only.
- The coach and their administrator.
- Teacher volunteers.
- Making selections based on ensuring every student has a teacher who receives coaching.
- Making selections based on the coach and teachers schedules.
- Making selections based on the goals of the school and district.
- Making selections based on who already uses the most technology.
