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Participants will:
-Understand the importance of building a culture of coaching in a school/district and the impact on both teacher and student outcomes.
-Learn the three critical components that contribute to a successful coaching culture.
-Gain the practical knowledge and skills to develop a coaching systems playbook for your own schools and districts.
-Learn how to implement proven strategies that help strengthen the culture of coaching in your organization, leading to improved student achievement and teacher effectiveness.
Educational and infrastructure challenge/situation:
-Calcasieu Parish School Board sought a solution to address three main issues:
1. Teachers weren't consistently receiving timely feedback, coaching, and instructional support.
2.CPSB had no cohesive and reliable way of delivering high-quality feedback and personalized professional development to their teachers at scale.
3. Leaders and teachers alike had limited visibility into data and could not easily track progress towards their instructional goals.
Technology intervention:
-CPSB invested in strengthening their culture of coaching by implementing Bullseye's customizable instructional support system for easy, effective teacher support & coaching. CPSB & Bullseye partnered together to make coaching and personalized professional development available to all educators. The platform has allowed CPSB to operationalize their coaching and support efforts in a way that makes the work about Growth NOT Gotcha.
Models employed:
-Participants will learn about Collective Teacher Efficacy, how to increase it and what impact it can have on teacher and student outcomes.
-Participants will learn about forming a Design Team and how to use the diverse perspectives of Design Team members to get better at coaching and support over time.
-Participants will learn about Kotter's Change Leadership model and how to implement it within their organizations.
Evidence of success:
-This session will look at the results that CPSB has gotten since supercharging their culture of coaching, including improvements in student test scores, above national average teacher retention rates, and data around the consistency of teacher support and coaching:
-100% believe that the feedback teachers receive is… personalized & targeted to their specific needs AND helps to directly improve instructional practices.
-Averaging 90%+ Teacher Retention Rates across 2,500+ Teachers over the last 3 years (compared to an 84% national average).
-22,000+ walkthrough, coaching, and reflection sessions taken
-9/10 CPSB administrators say Bullseye saves them time, keeps them more organized, and helps drive instructional growth
-CPSB found a statistically significant correlation between Increased Bullseye Usage & Higher Student Standard Score Growth
Culture of Coaching - 30 Minutes (Presented)
-Why Focus on a Culture of Coaching?
-Collective Teacher Efficacy is one of the top influencing factors on student outcomes
-Teachers who don't feel supported by admin are >2x likely to leave the classroom
-Building a culture of coaching improves team alignment, teacher success & retention, and student outcomes
-How to Build a Culture of Coaching
-Make goals shared and transparent, play to your team's strengths, focus on continuous improvement
-Steps for building a Culture of Coaching
-Outcomes of creating a Culture of Coaching
-Tips for Success
Activity - 25 Minutes (Audience Participation)
-Create your Instructional Support Vision and Playbook (device-based activity)
-Practice giving and receiving feedback (peer-to-peer interaction)
Kotter Change Leadership: https://www.kotterinc.com/methodology/8-steps/
John Hattie Collective Teacher Efficacy: https://www.visiblelearningmetax.com/influences/view/collective_teacher_efficacy
Strengths-Based Feedback: https://edevlearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Why-Feedback-Rarely-Does-What-Its-Meant-To.pdf