Peer Coaching: Unleash the Potential of Collaboration

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Peer Coaching Unleash the Potential of
Collaboration

• Abbey Alessi, Deborah Gallaher,
• Shelee King George

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Welcome

• Introductions
• In this session.

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Session Overview

• Effective professional development
• About the Peer Coaching program
• Coaching in Practice

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Synectic

• How is professional development like/not like
  your first day in kindergarten?

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Professional Development Activity

• Facilitator and Recorder-Timekeeper (10)
• Think of a time that you learned something from a
  professional development experience that changed
  your practice as a teacher or principal.
• What made the experience so effective?
• Reporter Share (Add 1)
• Compare Research handout

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Current Practice

• School based Professional Development Matrix
• Reflect on your current practice

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Think About Typical Technology Professional
Development

• Traditional training
• Focus on tools
• Lacks opportunity for reflection

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Misconceptions

• If you buy it, they will use it.
• If you buy it, it will change the way children
  learn.

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Reality Check

• Nearly 100 classrooms wired and connected to the
  Internet
• Teachers still not comfortable
• Pre-existing teaching practices continue
• Islands of Excellence

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Infrastructure

• Investment in bandwidth but not human bandwidth
• Time to invest in the Human Infrastructure

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Our Dilemma

• How can we help teachers infuse technology to
  enhance the teaching and learning process?

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Why Peer Coaching

• Collaboration
• Feedback
• Reflection
• Alignment - adds value
• Handout

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About Peer Coaching

• Simple method of professional development
• Builds teacher leaders
• Helps teachers share practices and learn from one
  another

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Peer Coaching Program Background

• 2001 - US Department of Education and Puget Sound
  Center
• 2002 - Local grant partners expanded statewide
• 2004 - Microsoft adopted Peer Coaching as first
  Professional Development opportunity in their
  Partners in Learning Initiative
• 2005-6 Shared with over 43 countries
• 2007 Statewide adoption for EETT grant monies
  in Florida, Washington and Arizona

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Peer Coaching Program Curriculum

• Coaching skills
• Technology integration
• Lesson Design

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Program Goals

• Develop teachers to be peer coaches
• Achieve systematic technology integration
• Engage students in powerful learning
• Infuse professional development into the life of
  schools

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Peer Coaching Program at a Glance

• Blend of face-to-face and distance learning
  activities
• Time for coaches to learn, practice, collaborate
  and reflect
• Eight day-long coach training sessions scheduled
  over a year
• Sessions at a Glance

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Coaching Roles

• Facilitator
• Collaborator
• Consultant
• Coach

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The Trust Model
Trust Model
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Pause to reflect

• Think about the types of roles you play
• What behaviors do you display that build trust?
• Elbow share

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Looking at Coaching Roles

• Video

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• Coaching in Practice

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Cleveland High School
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Cleveland High School

• Seattle School District
• 110 schools
• 46,416 students
• Part of the Gates Foundation Small Schools
  Initiative

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Meet the Staff and Students
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Cleveland Staff and Students

• Of 630 students
• 59 African American
• 23 Asian
• 8 Hispanic
• 7 Caucasian
• 3 Native American

• Of 41 certificated staff
• 61 Caucasian
• 15 Asian
• 20 African American
• 2 Hispanic
• 2 Native American

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Why Cleveland?

• Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
• Technology Infusion in Small Schools (TISS)
• Build skills to make Cleveland a good school

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TISS Grant

• If good schools have
• Time for collaboration
• Time to strengthen skills
• Integration of technology into teaching and
  learning
• Value student exhibitions, presentations and
  portfolios
• TISS can provide this opportunity

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A TISS Journey

• Year 1 of the grant
• Allen foundation provides possibilities
• 4 academies
• 3 coaches recruited
• Need identified Student Progress Feedback

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Year 2

• Online Progress Reports
• Change in Leadership
• Move to interim site
• 4 new coaches recruited

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Year 3

• Online Progress reports gtgtgt The Source
• New equipment compliments of the Levy
• Coaching session evolves into REALity check

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An Ah Ha Moment

• Session 7 of the Peer Coaching Program
• The same reflection you did earlier
• How do we place ourselves on the school based
  professional development matrix?
• Collective Focus on Student Learning

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Year 4

• 7 coaches
• 13 collaborating teachers
• Professional Development REAL focus
• Support structure on site
• Technology Boot camp
• Project REAL

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Project REAL

• What really matters?
• Improve senior projects
• Project REAL
• REAL audience
• REAL purpose
• REAL product
• What if.

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REAL commitment

• Every teacher commits to offer one exhibition
  experience for students
• A REAL school focus
• All PD aligned
• Rubric creation
• Exhibition planning
• Exhibition opportunities

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Exhibition Experiences

• Teacher
• Teacher student
• Student
• iPod winner

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3-2-1

• 3 things that show the value of collaboration at
  Cleveland
• 2 things you still have questions about
• 1 insight related to Clevelands journey

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Student Technology Skills

• Exhibition Experiences created a need for tech
  savvy students
• Need for a common level of technology skills
• Technology Boot Camp for staff and students

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Technology Boot Camp

• Team effort
• 5 Online sessions
• Rewarded with Jump Drive
• End result Exhibitions that showcase a REAL
  purpose through a REAL product for a REAL audience

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Technology Boot Camp is Sustainable

• Created with grant but sustainable beyond
• Part of the fabric of Cleveland
• All new students and staff will continue to
  receive training
• Basic skills for teaching and learning

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• Reflections

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What Really Mattered

• Planning from within
• Focus on the teaching learning process
• TISS coaching triads
• 7 triads affects 21 of 41 teachers
• Improve the use of new technology
• Basic technology skills for teaching and learning

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Teacher Technology Skills
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Staff Perception of Tech Boot Camp

• 62 of the staff report that as a result of
  Technology Boot Camp, students skills with
  technology either significantly increased or
  somewhat increased when compared to last year.
• The remaining survey participants were unable to
  make a comparison because they had not used
  technology in their classrooms in the past.

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Exhibition Experience Participation
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Collaborating Teacher Reflections

• It was great to know that there's someone there
  to help you whenever you needed it. There was
  always someone to collaborate with and to bounce
  ideas off of - not only with technology, but also
  with subject based curriculum.
• The demand for the use of technology has grown
  not just by students but also by staff.

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Reflections Coach Rebbecah
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Reflections Catherine
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Challenges

• Challenges The fear of deprivatization of
  practice.
• Public display of lessons and exhibitions
• Lab space demands

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Next Steps

• Next steps Staff Retreat
• Lesson improvement
• Collaboration
• Student reflection
• Exhibitions defined further
• Tech Boot Camp NotchItUp

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Reflect and Align

• School Based Professional Development Matrix
• Evidence of collaboration
• Other standards?

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• Sustaining Peer Coaching

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District Support

• Long term investment
• Alignment
• Training

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School Support

• Create a culture of collaboration
• Value shared leadership
• Value the work of coaches
• Align coaching with school goals

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Coach Success

• School and/or district support
• Time
• Experience
• Opportunity to reflect

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Chalk Talk A Silent ReflectionThe value of Peer
Coaching

• Marker
• Respond silently
• Circle
• Add a note
• Connect ideas

Microsoft Peer Coaching 2006 v2 Session 3 Adapted
from the Chalk Talk Protocol Coalition of
Essential Schools Northwest (2002)
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One Teacher Can Make a Difference

• Philippines
• Video

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Your Kindergarten Teacher?

• Can you remember the name of your kindergarten
  teacher?
• Share with your table
• Which name is closest to the front of the
  alphabet?

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Join the World Wide Conversation

• Use what you learned now
• Today I discovered ____________ and now I will
  ______________.
• Become a facilitator (Brochure)

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A Brief Trip

• Fotografia
• Thank you
• Questions?