Professional Development for Foundational Essential Action 2.2

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Coaching School Leaders – Leading for Instructional Effectiveness

Coaching for School Leaders is designed to support both the principal and principal manager as they coach teachers to refine and enhance instructional practices.  The model of support includes 2 days of face to face professional development implementation planning and 3-5 days of one to one coaching.  Leaders strengthen their instructional leadership through a shared vision of high-quality instruction, develop expertise in classroom observation and practice face to face feedback.  As astute observers of effective classroom instruction, instructional leaders refine their skills on five dimensions of learning and provide effective feedback to classroom teachers.  Customized tools to support campus leaders include the five dimensions of learning tool, core-content checklist, feedback script exemplars, sentence stems for leaders, and teacher tracker tools.  This systemic approach ensures that each lesson is objective driven, rigorous and aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills or Pre-Kindergarten Guidelines.

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Registration information:

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▶ Interest Form                    ▶ E-mail for more information

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Texas Instructional Leadership (TIL)

Vetted Improvement Program

Texas Instructional Leadership is a program that consists of a suite of trainings intended to foster continuous improvement by helping campus and district administrators grow concrete instructional leadership skills in the areas of observation and feedback, student culture, and data driven instruction.  The TIL trainings listed below are aligned with many of the best practices described in the ESF:

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Action Coaching (Observation & Feedback)

Texas Instructional Leadership (TIL) is designed to strengthen a leader’s skill in coaching school principals as they develop others (teachers) through the See it, Name It, Do It model of practiced-based professional development. Effective instructional leaders observe classroom instruction and successfully identify high-leverage precise action steps that impact teacher growth. Developing teacher expertise through incremental changes in teacher practice has a
tremendous impact on student growth and achievement.

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Action Coaching (Observation & Feedback) addresses key elements that target powerful techniques that make teaching more effective and the principles of coaching/feedback that transforms teacher practices and enhance student performance:

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• Develop Essential Routines and Procedures

• Roll out and Monitor Routines

• Engage every Student

• Set Routines for Discourse

• Write Effective Lesson Plans

• Give Students Opportunities for Independent Practice

• Respond to Student Learning Needs

• Facilitate Student Discourse

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Registration information:

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▶ Interest Form                    ▶ Session Flyer                    ▶ E-mail for more information

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