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Alchemy of CoachingA quest to find gold teaching practices
through Coaching
Sophie Hunter
@hunter_soph
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• @hunter_soph
Building Knowledge of Coaching
Building a Rich Environment
Building Skills to identify Strengths
Shape of Today’s Presentation
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What does Alchemy and Coaching have in common?
So much easier said than done…….
Belief in improving
Translates across contexts and cultures
Trial and error and modify
A belief that there must be a better way
A creation of its own (solution focused) language
Aim to turn “base” into “noble”
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Our context
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Building Knowledge
Knowledge of Purpose
Knowledge of Staff
Knowledge of Coaching
Knowledge of Budget
Knowledge of Space
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Are you a “ducks in a row” person?
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Because this is the reality
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But build your river banks by…..
1. Having coaching conversations…..BEFORE coaching starts….
2. Living “Ready Fire Aim” (ducks don’t have to be in a row) but you do need to be in the same flow as the river
3. Creating time and space to reflect
4. Being HONEST with your Professional Learning Architecture
Don’t wait for confidence tap into courage
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You’re all swimming in the same direction….. This took a year
Having coaching conversations…..BEFORE coaching starts….
With superiors, first
With staff (we did Inquiry/Action Group) Co-construct with staff: Driving question, what Professional Learning Framework
do we need in order to improve student outcomes3. Time to reflect and strengthen
Don’t wait for confidence tap into courage
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So traditionally, like this….
Don’t wait for confidence tap into courage
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Building trust through this….
Don’t wait for confidence tap into courage
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Also Building Trust by
Co-designing Professional Learning Architecture WITH staff
Building Trust, clarifying staff expectations, gathering data
Very difficult to find Gold in teachers without trust
Creating an environment where people can take risks
First year of Coaching 29 out of 31 staff signed up
Don’t wait for confidence tap into courage
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Learning in the Doing….
2. Living “Ready Fire Aim”
But know your research
Don’t wait for confidence tap into courage
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…..and Reading…….
Don’t wait for confidence tap into courage
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…and more reading/networking….
Don’t wait for confidence tap into courage
Resources for Coaching in Education: Useful Research and ReferencesGrowth Coaching International website
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Your Professional Learning Architecture
• Starts with coaching questions that produce a shared and co-constructed vision – Give TIME to this!!!
• Office – small Inquiry group – Half day PD, external PD, my own coaching, then we were ready to start (6-18 months)
• Curve your enthusiasm! (graph) Usually start with blissful ignorance / uninformed optimism – informed pessimism to informed optimism
• If Coaching is successful, what will be happening? What will it look like? When will we know it is successful?
• Point of Reference / Data ACE
• Pace of starfish
• Reality – what’s happening now?
• How can this goal fit in?
• How might we STRENGTHEN our Architecture to support our vision?
• BE HONEST – if the design isn’t there, if the structure can’t hold – don’t use it, modify or change the structure, or the goal isn’t realistic
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So, now the environment is rich for coaching conversations
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Gold in a Measurable Point of Reference
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Building Skills
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Coaching is the glue - GOAL is the gold
External professional learning
Internal professional learning
Classroom Observations
Filming
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Build a kit…Literally
ContractGoal Setting Activities
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What have I learnt
• Communicate and make visible, your successes
• Build trust, build more trust, and when you think you’re done, build trust
• Coaching is the glue – my go to graph: Joyce and Showers. My own (non-academic) research supports this 100%
• Read, read, read (theory into practice/practice into theory)
• Be connected outside your school
• Get yourself a mentor
• Invest in targeted PL
• Work within your means $, time, space
• Be prepared to be vulnerable
• Be prepared to lose control
• Be prepared to listen to silence
• Be prepared to be brutally honest and use data, a measurable point of reference for success, progress, growth and challenging conversations
• Be prepared to curb your “curve for enthusiasm”
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But most of all….it’s not about you….
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It’s about the purpose…
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• @hunter_soph
The gold is already there!