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The Learning Professional the Learning Forward Journal THE LEARNING PROFESSIONAL THE LEARNING FORWARD JOURNAL EXPERTS SHARE HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF COACHING ALSO IN Jim Knight p. 28 THIS ISSUE: Joellen Killion p. 24 Disrupting inequity p. 45 Elena Aguilar p. 10 How to hire Robert Pianta p. 33 great coaches p. 12 COACHING December 2019, Vol. 40, No. 6 SUMMER INSTITUTES MINNEAPOLIS SAVE THE DATE! Learning Forward Institutes are coming to Minneapolis! JULY 1619, 2020 Join us for a deep dive into topics that will strengthen your coaching skills and increase your leadership capacity. SUMMER INSTITUTES institutes.learningforward.org Minneapolis • July 16-19, 2020 THE LEARNING PROFESSIONAL THE LEARNING FORWARD JOURNAL DECEMBER 2019, VOLUME 40, NO. 6 in this issue ... VOICES 7 RESEARCH 15 p. 10 16 RESEARCH REVIEW By Elizabeth Foster Study pinpoints success factors when teachers learn from peers. Research on a California coaching initiative adds to our understanding of how to support teacher-led professional 5 HERE WE GO learning. By Suzanne Bouffard To put it simply, coaching works. 18 ESSENTIALS This issue of The Learning Professional features stories and data about Keeping up with hot topics. coaching strategies, impact, and methods for continuous improvement. ONLINE EXCLUSIVES 8 CALL TO ACTION By Denise Glyn Borders learningforward.org/ Assess and document professional learning’s impact. the-learning-professional As champions for professional learning, we urge readers to take several • Community connects critical lessons from NAEP and other research. instructional coaching to improvement science. 9 BEING FORWARD By Leigh Wall Professional learning can chart a course for equity and excellence. Representatives from around the country detail the impact of professional learning on their districts and students. 10 WHAT I’VE LEARNED By Elena Aguilar You can coach for equity anywhere, with anyone. It isn’t an option for coaches to be neutral on issues of justice. These five tips • With peer visits, teachers see can help coaches do the essential work of focusing on equity. for themselves how to improve practice. 12 ASK By Cathy Toll • A continuum of coaching Effective coaching begins with the hiring process. supports: Modeling and co- Cathy Toll, director of Partnering to Learn and an expert on coaching, teaching aren’t mutually outlines what school and district leaders need to know when hiring coaches. exclusive. December 2019 | Vol. 40 No. 6 www.learningforward.org | The Learning Professional 1 THE LEARNING PROFESSIONAL THE LEARNING FORWARD JOURNAL in this issue ... FOCUS 19 COACHING p. 24 20 How coaching takes root: 3 key factors lead to successful implementation. By Jennifer D. Pierce, Melissa Irby, and Melissa Weber-Mayrer Implementation science shows that competency, organization, and leadership are key drivers of success. The authors explain how they apply to coaching. 24 On the path to ‘becoming’: Awareness of their own mental models can help coaches stretch and grow. By Joellen Killion By becoming increasingly cognizant about the influence of their mental models, coaches can experience transformative learning and facilitate it for others. 36 Accentuate the positive: 45 Coaching for equity: Video can motivate teachers Disrupt and transform practices 28 Students on the margins: to improve their skills. that reveal implicit and explicit How instructional coaching By Jody A. Flowers biases. can increase engagement In this strengths-based By Tonikiaa Orange, and achievement. coaching model, coaches focus Jo Ann Isken, Amber Green, By Jim Knight on what teachers are doing Nancy Parachini, To help teachers move students well, which builds trust and and Annamarie Francois away from the margins and buy-in to the process. A coaching framework focused into the heart of schools, on equity encourages coaching coaching needs to address 41 Toolbox for SEL: conversations that counter bias, student engagement as well as Coaching builds teachers’ refute deficit thinking, and achievement. social and emotional strategies. combat racial stereotypes. By Laura Stickle, 33 A window into teaching: Rebecca Bailey, 50 Bright and early: With evidence-based coaching, Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Coaching increases the quality teachers observe and reflect and Stephanie M. Jones of early childhood programs. on student interactions. Coaches helped teachers By Noelle V. Banuelos, By Elizabeth Foster increase their use of SEL Mariel K. Doerfel, In this Q&A, Robert Pianta practices in a pilot study, and Rachael E. Stoffel discusses MyTeachingPartner, a underscoring the need for job- The quality of Los Angeles early coaching model that meets the embedded professional learning childhood programs improved evidence requirements of the on SEL. with support from professional Every Student Succeeds Act. coaches. 2 The Learning Professional | www.learningforward.org December 2019 | Vol. 40 No. 6 I SAY Paul Katnik Assistant commissioner, 54 The power of coaching: CLASSICS Missouri Department of Fort Wayne’s model shows 71 Elementary and Secondary what an intentional Education learning system can accomplish. 72 Raise the level of conversation By Kay Psencik, Valerie Mitrani, by using paraphrasing as a and Ramona Coleman listening skill. Fort Wayne Community By Robert J. Garmston Schools illustrates the central Paraphrasing is not only a role of coaching in a systemic language skill, but a listening professional learning approach skill. It helps us synthesize, and what effective support for clarify, shift discourse to new coaching looks like. levels, and show others we’ve 58 A dashboard view of coaching: heard them. Digital log zooms in on coaches’ daily activities. By Lauren B. Goldenberg, TOOLS 75 Violet Wanta, and Andrew Fletcher 76 Coach as classroom supporter: A digital log provides data Protocol guides coaches that early literacy coaches in conducting demonstration New York City use to reflect, lessons. adjust practice, and promote Learning Forward Capitol Hill continuous improvement. Briefing: Addressing Equity in UPDATES Teaching Through Professional 62 Steps to self-reliance: 79 Learning, October 10, 2019, Coaching process strengthens Washington, D.C. math students’ confidence. 80 The latest from Learning By Sue Chapman Forward. and Mary Mitchell • Remembering Shirley Hord n the past] we figured With the focused reflection • Capitol Hill briefing “[Ithat, because the process, coaches and teachers • Host committee charitable operate as researchers and hold contribution principal has a license, we’re themselves accountable for their • Featured social media post good to go. It doesn’t work teaching and students’ learning. • 2019 Annual Conference that way. In order to keep up update 66 Bridging the distance: • Webinar on rigorous with the changing things that One-on-one video coaching assignments are happening in our school supports rural teachers. • Empowering teachers event communities, you have to By Cynthia D. Carson, Cynthia Callard, Ryan Gillespie, 84 AT A GLANCE continue to update the people Jeffrey Choppin, Instructional coaching: who run those school systems. and Julie M. Amador By the numbers. A model grounded in the “How many of you would be Standards for Professional 85 THROUGH THE LENS comfortable with your doctor Learning provides rural math of Learning Forward’s prepared to work on you with teachers one-on-one video Standards for Professional coaching with expert math Learning. what they knew two decades coaches. ago?” December 2019 | Vol. 40 No. 6 www.learningforward.org The Learning Professional 3 Professional Learning Planning Set a systemwide vision for professional learning Learning Forward supports districts to develop We start with the essential a systemwide vision for professional learning components of a professional that impacts educator practice and student learning plan and work with you achievement. to identify your key focus areas Build the guiding document for professional and customize your plan. learning in your system, and secure buy-in from For more information, visit stakeholders. Outline an agreed-upon vision, consulting.learningforward.org mission, and goals for professional learning or contact Tom Manning at related to four critical areas: [email protected]. • Content and pedagogy; • Coherence and relevance; • Measurement and impact; and • Professional learning culture. HERE WE GO Suzanne Bouffard TO PUT IT SIMPLY, COACHING WORKS he benefits of instructional coaching have been obvious to educators for decades, but research data now make those benefits measurably clear (Kraft, Blazar, & Hogan, 2018). TThe impact is particularly striking when you zoom in on districts and schools that have made a real investment in coaching. For example, Norman (Oklahoma) Public Schools nearly doubled its investment in coaching over a two-year period and saw a marked reduction in the need to hire new teachers, from 225 in You shared 2017 to 168 in 2019 (Norman Public Schools, 2019). with us a wealth Reducing teacher attrition saves costs for districts, and it saves a different kind of cost for students, who tend to learn more from experienced teachers than novices (Kini & Podolsky, 2016). of knowledge Norman’s story is just one of many we heard at a recent event Learning Forward sponsored and insight on Capitol Hill and that we hear on a regular basis from Learning Forward members and clients. This issue of The Learning Professional is dedicated to sharing those stories and data about that reinforced coaching strategies, impact, and methods for continuous improvement. our belief in Our readers’
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