Meet weekly with each of their teachers.
Keep a tracker to understand the needs and progress of each student in connection with meeting the objectives.
- The teacher and coach decide the format of the tracker but all will use a google doc of some sort.
Co-teaching cycles will happen with each teacher once per trimester.
- These can be 4-6 consecutive weeks.
- or they can be more flexible depending on teacher and student needs.
Coach’s classroom acts as LAB when possible (teachers’ classrooms can become labs for each other though and coaches can facilitate this “lab time” and critical friends’ groups!)
Conduct informal observations of classes (non-evaluative).
Organizar oportunidades de desarrollo profesional, como observaciones de compañeros.

In coaching meetings, the following can be discussed, but will not necessarily be discussed on a weekly basis: individual differentiation will be provided based on teacher needs!

Coach asks a lot of questions in this process to guide the teacher.

General check in.
- Liaison between teacher and academic director.
- Effective listening.
Creating lesson plans together using UBD (backwards design); what do we want kids to learn?
- Support teachers to take more risks - try new things with coach support
Creating projects and rubrics together
Updating the tracker, discussing the tracker, and coming up with teaching and co-teaching strategies based on data in the tracker
Logistical organization and “to dos”
- Institutional level logistical support (conferences, grades, discipline, etc.)
Student check in.
Reflections on projects, co-teaching lessons, etc.
- Reflect on how it went.
- And how to improve it.
- Reflection on Academic Director observations.
- After co-teaching reflection.
  - How did our co-teaching unit help and support kids?
  - What were any challenges or missed opportunities?
  - What are our next steps?
Celebrations! Celebrate the teachers’ processes, risk taking, etc.
- Unified way to celebrate the teachers at the end of the trimester
  - Letters of gratitude.
  - Sharing at casa meetings so that colleagues can hear new strategies that their peers are using that are working! This is celebrating and sharing of ideas!

Connection between Coaches and Academic Director:

Weekly check-in between individual coach and academic director:
- Administrators check in on what teachers need.
- Administrators check in on what coaches need.
Monthly meetings with administrators (Ryan, Maria with Milagros; Mirtha, Amy, Kerry, Mathew with Kenia/Liz)
- Teacher objectives and results.
Bi-weekly meetings where the coaches meet and share; supporting each other and getting ideas from each other:
- Critical Friends Group style!
  - We take turns presenting, sharing, getting feedback
- Coaching Corner!
Coaching team uses labs to support each other and learn from each other:
- Classroom observations.
- Observing coaching meetings.

La Paz Community School

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