Feb.+4,+2010

=**ISB Coaches Team Meeting Agenda **=

Understanding = U Informing = I Recommending = R Deciding = D || Participants: **Teresa, Kim, Jeff Regrets:** **Dennis** 2. Entering time for this week || All (15 min) || [|Google Doc]
 * < Date: **Fri., Feb 4, 2010** ||< Time: **12:30-2:05** ||< Place: **MS Skybox** ||
 * < Facilitator/Timekeeper:
 * Troy** ||< Recorder: **Kim** ||= **Purpose:**
 * **Task** || **Guiding Question** || **Background/ Process** || **Person / Time** ||
 * **Warm-up** || //How's the week been?//
 * Tech Coffee Morning was great! 30 parents attended
 * Bill is going to present on the coaching model at a conference soon || 1. General catch-up
 * **Coaches' Standards** || //How can we improve on our ideas?//
 * Questions (in red) on doc discussed & documented on the Google Doc
 * Domains removed & re-named to follow "Students learn best when" titles

Discussion:
 * Do we still need the "Therefore teachers will..." column on the table? -> Could it be renamed: types of evidence you might collect
 * Do we still need the "Therefore teachers will..." column at all?
 * Do we need the "Student Learning Evidence" column to be split into 2 (pre-action plan evidence & post-action plan evidence)

Next Steps:
 * Action Plan form for coaches to work with teachers
 * Maybe start with 1 per grade level (with the most crucial needs), prioritize with teaching team at that grade level, coaching team can help strategize
 * Move into coaching cycles, rotate through grade levels so teachers don't get overloaded (coaches are in on that team meeting during the cycle)
 * Next steps - try it out, use it in coaching and bring feedback to team to see if it works - How can we pilot this?

Action Plan Steps: 2. Next steps 3. Let's tackle this || Jeff (45 min) ||
 * 1) Date: Student Learning Evidence Examined - Issue Identified
 * 2) Date: Collaborative Action Plan Created
 * 3) Date: Action Plan Implemented
 * 4) Date: Student Learning Evidence Collected
 * 5) Date: Reflection Based on Evidence (rinse & repeat as needed) || 1. recap where we are
 * **Mid year reflection** || To what degree is this PLC helpful to us as coaches?
 * Discussing and reflecting on the reading
 * Productive days where we move forward - where we actually have an agenda and stick with it
 * As a regular sounding board for working with people in the same position - the dedicated time is important

Recommendations:
 * What will we do to help/support the new coaches on board
 * Continue book discussion and plan out the chapters for the rest of the year
 * Organize meetings and topics like grade 4 and ISB21
 * Continue making agendas, do our best to stick to them, but make accommodations for the one meeting a semester relaxing chat
 * Is there a better room for us to meet next year? We need a coaches room (like a classroom that has been vacated due to the new building)
 * How can we continue revisiting the Light vs Heavy coaching conversation - how do we continue to move along that continuum?

To what degree are we impacting learning?
 * We know we are, we just haven't documented what we've done with student learning evidence
 * Light vs Heavy coaching discussion really helped improve coaching strategies and techniques which has a direct impact on student learning

What makes you say that?

Homework: Read Chapter 4 for next week's discussion || 1. PLC reflection 2. Coaching reflection 3. Plans for use of upcoming time || Teresa (30 min) || Parking Lot – Items on our plate for future meetings: