We are wrapping up season 1 with a topic that is so crucial as an instructional coach! Reflecting on your instructional coaching journey is essential for continuous growth and improvement. By evaluating your impact and effectiveness, setting goals for personal and professional growth, and seeking feedback from colleagues, other coaches, and administrators, you can continually improve and create an even bigger impact. 

In this episode, I am breaking down how I reflect on my instructional coaching weekly and throughout the school year. I am sharing the 3 questions that I ask every week, the strategies I use to evaluate my impact and effectiveness, how I suggest using summer for professional and personal development, and why receiving feedback from colleagues and administration is key to growth and development as a coach.

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The school year is quickly coming to an end. How are you planning to close out the school year with your teachers? This is such an important time to meet with your teachers, reflect on the year, and continue to build a strong connection with them.

Nita Creekmore is joining me in this episode to discuss how we like to close out the school year. We are sharing how we connect the questions and goals we discuss at the beginning of the year to our end of the year discussions, why we encourage our teachers to reflect on their year, and what simple and effective goals you can have teachers set for the summer so they can continue to improve their craft while prioritizing rest.

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The thought of interviewing for an instructional coaching position may be intimidating for you but you likely have teaching, leadership, or other coaching experiences that you can use to ace your interview. I want to help you feel more confident and prepared as you go into your instructional coaching interview. 

In this episode, I am sharing tips and advice to help you thoroughly prepare for your upcoming interviews. I am covering, the importance of researching the school you are interviewing for, why you need a strong philosophy as a coach, and how to showcase your communication skills. Plus, I am giving advice on other topics you should be prepared to discuss during the interview!

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When supporting PLCs as an instructional coach, we want to set the expectation that we are there to provide expertise and background but that it is the teachers who take ownership and leadership of the PLC. As coaches, we are not members of PLCs but rather we can help teachers begin to truly work as a team with all students’ best interests in mind.

Steve Barkley is the Chief Learning Officer and Executive Vice-President of PLS 3rd Learning. He is internationally recognized for his ability to facilitate change through his teaching and coaching and is skilled in guiding systems and teams through the process of continuous improvement with coaching, mentoring, and professional learning communities.

In this episode, Steve is discussing what a PLC is and a coach’s role in the PLC, how whole schools can work as a PLC to support student needs, and why teachers need to make a minimum of a 3 year commitment to students.

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Learn more about Steve Barkley: barkleypd.com

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How can coaches support PLCs and help create more impact in PLCs? The purpose of PLCs is to gain knowledge and create things that haven’t been tried previously. Steve Ventura of Advanced Collaborative Solutions is joining me to talk about PLCs, effective coaching, and his upcoming summit session.

Steve Ventura is the president and lead consultant at Advanced Collaborative Solutions. He approaches high-stakes professional development armed with practical, research-based strategies. In this episode, he is sharing insight into his book, Achievement Teams, a glimpse at his session at the Simply Coaching Summit, how coaches can effectively support PLCs, and what highly effective coaches do. 

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Learn more about Steve Ventura: www.steveventura.com

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What will we do when students don’t learn? There is a huge gap in knowing about practices that will help marginalized students accelerate their learning and actually implementing these practices to create a bigger impact in the classroom. 

Zaretta Hammond is a national consultant and author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain. She has been supporting schools in deepening their understanding and application of culturally responsive practices for the past 20 years. In this episode, she is sharing how she helps equip and empower coaches with the information needed to manage change for equity, the missing piece in knowing strategy and what is actually being implemented, and the difference in instructional decision making and execution. 

Grab a copy of the Simply Coaching Summit brochure here! https://simply-coaching-teaching-llc.ck.page/b0f655b7c1

Learn more about Zaretta Hammond: www.crtandthebrain.com

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Are you facing resistance in your coaching? Resistance is a very common issue when working with teachers. Our guest today, Allison Peterson, is talking all about the deep work of coaching and the importance of understanding resistant teachers.

Allison Peterson is the found of the #NewToCoaching community and helps new instructional coaches learn and connect in their journey from the classroom to coaching. She is sharing how she got started coaching, the importance of the deep work of coaching, why coaches need to get to the “why” behind resistance, and how coaches should respond to resistant teachers to best reach them.

Grab a copy of the Simply Coaching Summit brochure here! https://simply-coaching-teaching-llc.ck.page/b0f655b7c1

Learn more about Allison Peterson: www.newtocoaching.info

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How can you effectively coach teachers when they are resistant? In this episode, Becca Silver of The Whole Educator is joining me to talk all about resistant teachers and how to effectively work with them.

Becca Silver is an instructional coach, life coach, and performance coach who empowers school coaches to increase their impact. She is sharing her journey to coaching, how she uses her life coaching to create a greater impact with the coaches she works with, why resistance happens, some motivations behind resistance, and pitfalls coaches may encounter when they address resistance.

Grab a copy of the Simply Coaching Summit brochure here! https://simply-coaching-teaching-llc.ck.page/b0f655b7c1

Learn more about Becca Silver: www.thewholeeducator.com

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What are coaching menus and how can they help teachers better understand the support you can provide? Chrissy Beltran of Buzzing with Ms. B is joining me to chat all about using coaching menus with teachers and give you a preview of her session at this year’s Simply Coaching Summit.

I absolutely loved this conversation with Chrissy and I know you will too! She is sharing some amazing information about what coaching menus are, how they can help the teachers you work with understand how you can help, the different ways you can set up your menus, and why they are a good option for sharing how you can support. Plus, hear Chrissy’s three pieces of advice for coaches.

Grab a copy of the Simply Coaching Summit brochure here! https://simply-coaching-teaching-llc.ck.page/b0f655b7c1

Learn more about Chrissy Beltran: www.buzzingwithmsb.com

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What are some reasons coaching foundations crumble, and what can we do to prevent it? Join me as I explore this important topic with Casey Watts, impact coach and consultant at Catching Up with Casey.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of building a coaching foundation, making the shift from teacher to instructional coach, setting up your core values, and vision casting. You'll learn about the differences between coaching individuals and teams, ways to use social norm agreements, personality assessments you can use with teachers, and more. Tune in now to find out the three reasons coaching foundations crumble! 

Grab a copy of the Simply Coaching Summit brochure here! https://simply-coaching-teaching-llc.ck.page/b0f655b7c1

Learn more about Casey Watts: https://www.catchingupwithcasey.com/

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