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Peer Power: Building Effective Peer Coaching Programs for Teacher Growth

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Session description

Unlock your staff’s potential by empowering teachers to support, learn from, and elevate one another through peer-coaching! This session dives into peer-coaching benefits and provides the knowledge and tools to create peer-coaching programs that enhance instructional practices, build teacher capacity, and foster collaborative cultures and continuous improvement.

Outline

-Discussion board (Pear Deck, Padlet, or other similar tool) of participants’ current successes and pain points / struggles as it relates to offering coaching opportunities for teachers (as people wait for session start time and 1st 3 minutes of session)
-Introduction of presenters to ground the session in our relevant experience in this topic (2 minutes)
-Verbal group discussion of participants’ goals for the session and key points from discussion board (5 minutes)
-Presentation of the structure of the peer-coaching program we have developed at our school and the process by which this program was built and how it is refined yearly (including samples and templates). Opportunities for participants to individually reflect on ideas presented and ask questions to the whole group will be available throughout the presentation (35 minutes)
-Participants will engage in a small group or partner reflection of the ideas presented and how ideas may be applied to their schools/districts (10 minutes)
-Whole group discussion of participants’ reflection of key takeaways from the session (5 minutes)

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Supporting research

Making Professional Learning Stick: ASCD Educational Leadership February 2021 Issue (Volume 78, Issue 5)
Peer Coaching to Enrich Professional Practice, School Culture, and Student Learning by Pam Robbins
The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching: Seven Factors for Success by Jim Knight
Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction by Jim Knight
The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation by Elena Aguilar

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Presenters

Ashley Bailey

Science Teacher

Roxboro Community School

MELANIE WINSTEAD HAIR

Academic Coach

Roxboro Community School

Session specifications

Topic:

Coaching and Mentoring

Grade level:

PK-12

Audience:

School Level Leadership, Teacher Development, Technology Coach/Trainer

Attendee devices:

Devices useful

Attendee device specification:

Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows
Laptop: Mac, PC, Chromebook
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows

Subject area:

Teacher Education

ISTE Standards:

For Coaches:
Change Agent

Cultivate a supportive coaching culture that encourages educators and leaders to achieve a shared vision and individual goals.

Collaborator

Personalize support for educators by planning and modeling the effective use of technology to improve student learning.

Professional Learning Facilitator

Build the capacity of educators, leaders and instructional teams to put the ISTE Standards into practice by facilitating active learning and providing meaningful feedback.