Strands
View a list of sessions for each Stand.
- New Session!
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Advanced Content Standards 15–20
- Best Practices
- BTSA/PAR Basics
- Leadership (Program Leaders & Administrators)
- Good for New Support Providers
Strands — Coaching and Mentoring
Friday | March 30
A Sessions are from 9:00 - 10:15 A.M.
AB Sessions are from 9:00 - 11:45 A.M.
B Sessions are from 10:30 - 11:45 A.M.
C Sessions are from 1:45 - 3:00 P.M.
A1
Quality Coaching: An Introduction to Best Practices and Procedures
Kim Thoman, Instructional Strategies Coach, Professional Development Exchange
This session provides an introduction to coaching principles and best practices. Participants will examine the coaching process, skillful communication skills, and data-gathering tools. Support providers, consulting teachers, and administrators will learn ways to develop credibility, ways to use essential communication skills to support relationships promoting professional growth, and techniques to gather objective specific data during classroom observations. If you are interested in adding to your effectiveness as an instructional leader and/or providing training to those developing coaching skills, join us for an interactive session sure to provide you with tools you can implement immediately.
Strands: New Session! | Coaching and Mentoring | Good for New Support Providers
AB2
Mentoring Matters
Lynn Sawyer, Training Associate, Sawyer Educational Consulting, MiraVia (Mentoring Matters and Data Driven Dialogue) & Center for Cognitive Coaching
This session is an introduction to the Mentoring Matters model, which explores the important relationship between mentor teachers and the novices they support. From the work of Laura Lipton and Bruce Wellman, Mentoring Matters offers practical tools, specific templates, and technical tips for educators who help others in increasing the effectiveness of their practice, including program improvement support providers, lead teachers, and mentor teachers. Participants will explore the intentions of a learning-focused relationship and discuss methods for balancing support with challenge. They will be introduced to a continuum of interaction, from consulting (sharing expertise and providing technical assistance) to collaboration (shared planning and problem solving) to coaching (a non-judgmental interaction that supports reflection and develops professional capacity).
Strands: Coaching and Mentoring
B1
Why Teachers Resist Learning & What We Can Do About It
Daniel Moirao, Senior Consultant, Silver, Strong & Associates
This workshop will focus on research-based practices that will engage the learning community in sustained professional development. By identifying why teachers resist learning, a program of differentiation that works will be introduced—a program that has been implemented across the country and is embedded in the life of the school community. This workshop will bring together research and practice to provide participants with skills and knowledge to adapt research-based strategies that promote student achievement into their school communities.
Strands: New Session! | Coaching and Mentoring
B3
Using Micro-Observation to Develop New Teacher Practice
Eva Allison Frank, Director, CES EssentialVisions, Coalition of Essential Schools National
For over twenty years the Coalition of Essential Schools has supported teachers’ efforts to develop personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging classrooms. Join Eva Frank, director of the CES Essential Visions DVD project, to practice coaching new teachers through classroom “micro-observations” using CES school footage and professional development materials. In this workshop participants will be working specifically on developing mentoring skills to coach new teachers to shift their educational philosophy and practice from one of “sage on the stage” to “student as worker, teacher as coach.”
Strands: New Session! | Coaching and Mentoring
C1
Communication Skills for Educators
Kim Thoman, Instructional Strategies Coach, Professional Development Exchange, Manhattan Beach USD
This session explores strategies for skillful communication to support positive collaborations, mediations, and coaching. Mentors, coaches, consulting teachers, and support providers will learn ways to develop credibility, ways to use essential communication skills to support relationships promoting professional as well as personal growth, and techniques to work effectively with seven types of difficult people. If you are interested in enhancing your effectiveness with administrators, colleagues, and parents, then join us for an interactive session sure to provide you with tools you can implement immediately.
Strands: New Session! | Coaching and Mentoring
Saturday | March 31
D Sessions are from 8:30 - 9:45 A.M.
DE Sessions are from 8:30 - 11:15 A.M.
D2
HINDSIGHT IS 20/20
Anita Moultrie Turner, Instructional Specialist and Adjunct Professor, California State University (CSULA), Los Angeles
Join Anita Moultrie Turner, our closing keynote speaker, for this session that explores how support providers look at the work of beginning teachers through formative assessments. Identify techniques and strategies that build a support provider’s repertoire of formative assessments that help to develop their beginning teacher’s best practices through ongoing observations in their classrooms. Engaging and hands-on activities in the workshop will give support providers a chance to “experience” the elements of effective teaching practices that can be shared with their beginning teachers. This workshop embraces the line of thought that support providers should know at the onset of their visits to teachers what “lens” they should be wearing to provide the best “prescription” to support their beginning teachers.
Strands: New Session! | Coaching and Mentoring
DE1
Quality Coaching: Data-Collection Techniques to Enhance Classroom Observations
Kim Thoman, Instructional Strategies Coach, Professional Development Exchange, Manhattan Beach USD
Gathering specific, observational data during a classroom observation is critical to the success of focused professional growth. Mentors, coaches, consulting teachers, and support providers will learn and practice systematic techniques that can be used during classroom observations to meet the professional growth goals of both the beginning and experienced teacher. You will leave this workshop with a set of data-collection tools that can be used to provide teachers with a new look at their classrooms.
Strands: Coaching and Mentoring
