CXL Coaching High-Impact Teacher Teams (Day 1 of 3)

Tuesday November 13, 2018

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Cancelled

Presenter: Nancy Love, RBT: Research for Better Teaching
Dates: Three face-to-face sessions followed by three webinars:
          November 13, 2018 (Tuesday)
          December 14, 2018 (Friday) 
          January 16, 2019 (Wednesday)
          Webinar dates & times TBD (February - April)

Time: 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM for Face-to-face sessions
Session Number: 19-108201

Audience: Teams which may include: Coaches, Teacher Leaders, Facilitators of Teacher Teams, Professional Developers, and the Administrators who supervise these staff.  

Are your teacher teams spending their precious meeting time on the highest leverage
actions they can take to reach every student? 
Do they take timely and targeted action in response to student work?

Description: 
     High-impact teams build their collective expertise in the practices that matter most for student achievement: (1) they clarify the learning goals so students are crystal clear about what success looks like; (2) they plan for and infuse formative assessment practices throughout their instruction; (3) they analyze assessment results based on pre-established success criteria and identify specific errors in student thinking; and (4) they take timely, targeted action to provide feedback, reteach, and extend learning. In short, they use data frequently and in depth to make sure that each student succeeds.

     For decades, Research for Better Teaching (RBT) has been studying and learning about high-impact teacher teams, teams that improve student achievement – one meeting at a time. We know that building such teams is not easy. Team time is short; agendas are full. Coaches or teacher leaders don’t often have the time they need to research and plan team meetings. And the demand to meet the needs of diverse learners is pressing every day. But it is possible. And it is vital to our students’ success. When teachers gain collective confidence and skill in how to improve student achievement, they can quadruple the speed of learning, literally obliterating achievement gaps, according to John Hattie’s most recent research (www.corwin.com/visible learning, 2016).

OUTCOMES:  Coaching High-Impact Teacher Teams: Four Steps to Improving Student Achievement distills what high-impact teams do into a practical, four-step approach that coaches and team leaders can implement immediately with the teams with whom they work. Through the workshop, participants will learn how to:

• Increase the effectiveness of teacher teams by focusing on the highest leverage actions to improve teaching and learning
• Build the foundation for collaboration, strengthening an adult professional culture for continuous learning
• Plan team meetings that are differentiated based on student and team needs
• Act as co-learner and partner, not necessarily as “the expert”
• Facilitate team activities for learning about, taking action, and reflecting/assessing impact in a four-step improvement cycle:
  • Step 1: Clarify learning target and success criteria for students
  • Step 2: Infuse formative assessment in their daily practice
  • Step 3: Analyze formative assessment results
  • Step 4: Take timely, targeted F-I-R-M-E (Feedback, Investigation of student thinking, Reteaching, Moving on, and Extending learning) action

Hours/PDPs: 25 PDPs (19 hours F2F, plus 6 hours follow-up virtual/webinar coaching)   
Cost: $799 NRC member-district staff. $899 Other district staff. Includes $100 of instructional materials. 
Graduate credit: This course may be taken for 2 Graduate credits (45 PDPs) through Fitchburg State University for an additional fee of $345 that is paid to "Fitchburg State University" at the first class session. 
Register by: October 17, 2018. 

Register online through your district's SmartPD link, or NRC's SmartPD Registration link at: https://app.smartedu.net/nrc/pd/.
"Coaching Teams..." is listed in the "Administration & Leadership" category of trainings. 

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Location: North River Conference Center, 525 Beech Street, Rockland MA 02370

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