The strategies outlined here, from structured coaching cycles to brief classroom observations and collaborative peer walks, are designed to create a culture of continuous improvement while managing your busy schedule. How can these strategies be adapted and implemented to fit the unique needs of your campus, ensuring that every step forward is both impactful and sustainable?
- Establish Coaching Cycles: Implement structured coaching cycles that align with your school's goals and calendar. By establishing clear and targeted cycles, you create a predictable framework for coaching sessions, making it easier to prioritize and integrate coaching into your routine, even when instructional days are limited. To learn more about establishing coaching cycles, click here.
- 5-10 Minute Observations: Conduct short, focused classroom observations lasting 5-10 minutes. These observations allow for quick insights and timely feedback, ensuring that coaching remains a priority amidst your busy agenda. Although these short time windows may not allow you to gather a wide-scope of data they do allow you to collect targeted data while showing your commitment to supporting your teachers and the important work they do.
- Schedule Daily Walks: Integrate daily walks into your schedule as a habitual practice and ask your administrative assistant to protect calendared walkthrough time. These scheduled walks serve as opportunities for informal interactions with teachers and students on a regular basis.
- Calibration Activities: Spend the first fifteen minutes of every weekly administrative meeting by viewing a short video lesson, marking digiCOACH, and calibrating your observations. This keeps digiCOACH in the forefront of all administrators and increases comfort levels with digiCOACH and your look-fors. Help create a sense of urgency by this encouraging activity and set goals together for coaching cycles and frequency of walks.
- Short Data Review Sessions: Schedule concise data review sessions with the digiCOACH team to inform coaching cycles and priorities. By knowing your way around the reports that fit your current coaching cycle, you can maximize your time and share observations and valuable data with all community school members. Click here to schedule a data review meeting.
- Integrate Coaching into Existing Processes: Ensure that coaching seamlessly integrates into existing processes within your school. Incorporate coaching discussions into staff meetings, departmental collaborations, or professional learning communities to maximize efficiency and alignment with school-wide initiatives.
- Peer Walks: Encourage collaboration among school leaders and teachers through organized peer walks. These brief observations offer valuable opportunities for teachers to collaborate and learn strategies from their colleagues. Promoting peer walks allows teachers to support each other, even when administrators' schedules are busy.
Supporting teachers through coaching sessions is essential for their professional growth and the overall success of your school. Teachers need and want actionable feedback to help their students. School climate, culture, and student achievement will all benefit from your time in classrooms.
Are you ready to elevate your coaching process and transform your classrooms into a hub of student achievement? Our passionate and experienced team is here to guide you every step of the way. Contact a digiCOACH team member today, and let's start this incredible journey together. Together, we'll shape the future of education, one Coaching Cycle at a time.
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