1. 2016-2017 Rock Island SMART School Academy
Session III, Day 6
December 14, 2016
Time: 15 minutes (1/1 slides)
Resources Required: N/A
Purpose: Introduction to Session III
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2. Evening Learning Opportunity
Complete…Reflections about Coaching
Session III
Participant Manual
Time: 30 minutes (1/2 slides)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, page ???
Purpose: Reminder of the evening learning opportunity. Reconnect to Day 5.
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3. SMART Coaching Cycle Questions
As a team, share the questions you generated for each stage of the SMART Coaching Cycle on pages of your manual.
Document new questions.
As a team, review the last two questions on pages to complete your discussion.
Time: 30 minutes (2/2 slides)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, page ???
Purpose: Reinforce competencies needed for coaching around the cycle.
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4. The Conscious Competence Ladder
Stage 4: Unconscious Competence
Stage 3: Conscious Competence
Stage 2: Conscious Incompetence
Stage 1: Unconscious Incompetence
Time: 45 minutes (1/6)
Resources Required: Participant Manual page 145
Purpose: Move the audience through each stage of the Conscious Competence Ladder
Lecture Notes: When we learn a new skill, we experience different emotions s well as different stages in the learning process. The Conscious Competence Ladder was developed by Noel Burch, an employee with Gordon Training International in the 1970’s. It helps people to understand what is a “normal” skill development process. Most importantly, it draws attention to the fact that learning can become frustrating, challenging, difficult, and dispirited if the learner does not receive the right kind of support to move through the stages sequentially.
The model highlights two factors that affect our thinking as we learn a new skill. Consciousness or level of awareness and Competence or skill level. This serves to remind us of the need to train people in stages of their development. For example, teachers and trainers may believe the learners are in Stage 2 and ready to move to Stage 3 when actually, many are at Stage 1. Here the teacher assumes the learner is aware of the skill deficiency and that there will be benefit from acquiring the new skill. However, people in Stage 1 of learning have no awareness of the benefits, relevance, or even awareness they have a skill deficiency. They will not be able to move to Stage 3 unless they are well aware of what they need to do to practice and what they need to do to deal with their emotions in Stage 2.
We move through all four levels as we build competence in a new skill.
I will illustrate each stage for you with a short video clip. While each stage of the Competency Ladder is explained further in the next few slides, become aware of the stage you are currently experiencing as you are being asked to try new skills in the SMART School Improvement Process and acquire competencies for becoming a coach to the SMART SIP.
Where are you finding yourself?
GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE
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5. Stage 1: Unconscious Incompetence
Don’t know what you don’t know
Innocent of “unspoken rules”
Knowledge didn’t prepare you
Time: 45 minutes (2/6)
Resources Required: Participant Manual page 145
Purpose: Move the audience through each stage of the Conscious Competence Ladder
Lecture Notes: Review the bulleted points
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6. Stage 2: Conscious Incompetence
Private or public mistakes
Increased awareness
Self-conscious
Need to change or avoidance
Time: 45 minutes (3/6)
Resources Required: Participant Manual page 145
Purpose: Move the audience through each stage of the Conscious Competence Ladder
Lecture Notes: Review the bulleted points
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7. Stage 3: Conscious Competence
Operate with confidence
Problem solve
Quickly correct errors
Time: 45 minutes (4/6)
Resources Required: Participant Manual page 145
Purpose: Move the audience through each stage of the Conscious Competence Ladder
Lecture Notes: Review the bulleted points
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8. Stage 4: Unconscious Competence
Mastery
Integration
Build new skills
Creative
Time: 45 minutes (5/6)
Resources Required: Participant Manual page 145
Purpose: Move the audience through each stage of the Conscious Competence Ladder
Lecture Notes: Review the bulleted points
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9. Conscious Competence Ladder: Debrief
What implications does the Ladder bring to your level of consciousness when it comes to learning the SMART School Improvement Process and the SMART Coaching Competencies?
Time: 45 minutes (6/6)
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual.
Purpose: Move the audience through each stage of the Conscious Competence Ladder
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The Conscious Competence Ladder is useful in several ways:
Personally: You can use it to understand the emotions you’ll experience during the learning process. This helps you stay motivated when times get tough and helps you manage your expectations of success so you don’t’ try to expect too much too soon.
Professionally: You can use it to explain to students (if a teacher) or faculty (if in leadership) that this ladder applies to all people expected to learn something new and apply it in their performance.
Coaching: Use this ladder to assess the emotions and skill areas of a client and ask pertinent questions for the client to take action to move through each stage.

10. Time for a BREAK Time: 15 minutes (1/1 slide) Purpose: Break
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual
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11. SIP Spring to Fall to Spring Fall to Winter DATA RETREAT ADJUST 3 C Y
ACT/
REPORT E
May
June C
GANS L
Apr
July L C
SMART
GOALS E
STUDY
Mar
Aug Y
SIP C
Feb
Sept 1
UNIT
ACTION
PLANS DO
Time: 60 minutes (1/3)
Resources Required: Participant Manual page 21
Purpose: Illustrate how the SIP cycle maps onto a progress monitoring process
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Jan
Oct DO
ADJUST
ACTIONS 2 C
Dec
Nov
ACT/
REPORT Y E C L
STUDY

12. Ten SHIFTS in School Improvement
1. Begin in the spring: Consider three cycles--Align cycles to grading periods. Be clear about the roles and responsibilities for each cycle.
2. Examine data by grade level/department teams for those students currently in their classroom(s) at the beginning of the year. Use reorganized spring data.
3. Align unit instruction to the cycles—clear learning outcomes, aligned assessments. Have a pacing chart for each cycle.
4. Be clear about key data sources and how data is organized and formatted. Reduce teacher time for data collection and more time for data analysis.
5. Identify a school-wide strategy for improvement; align to professional learning to ensure systematic implementation.
Time: 60 minutes (2/3)
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual
Purpose: Deeper understanding of the SIP cycle for progress monitoring
Lecture Notes: Begin in the spring: Consider three cycles--Align cycles to grading periods. Be clear about the roles and responsibilities for each cycle.
Examine data by grade level/department teams for those students currently in their classroom(s) at the beginning of the year. Use reorganized spring data.
Align unit instruction to the cycles—clear learning outcomes, aligned assessments. Have a pacing chart for each cycle.
Be clear about key data sources and how data is organized and formatted. Reduce teacher time for data collection and more time for data analysis.
Identify a school wide strategy for improvement/ align to professional learning to ensure systematic implementation.
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13. Ten SHIFTS in School Improvement
6. Progress monitor and report by grade level/ department. Have students progress monitor and report. Have data teams progress monitor and report.
Eliminate unnecessary assessments. Communicate an assessment calendar. Identify the purpose of each assessment to avoid redundancies.
8. Align Tier I and Tier II interventions/enrichments to unit instruction assessment results. Use those assessments to differentiate.
9. Align student growth new requirements in evaluation to school improvement and unit instruction. Consider student learning outcomes as your pathway to student growth requirements.
10. Align professional practice expectations to school improvement and unit instruction. Ensure your teacher and leader evaluation expectations match research-based school improvement practices.
Time: 60 minutes (3/3)
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual
Purpose: Deeper understanding of the SIP cycle for progress monitoring
Lecture Notes: Align student growth new requirements in evaluation to school improvement and unit instruction. Consider student learning outcomes as your pathway to student growth requirements.
Align professional practice expectations to school improvement and unit instruction. Ensure your teacher and leader evaluation expectations match research-based school improvement practices.
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14. Team Planning Time Time: 45 minutes (1/1 Slide)
Resources Required: Participant Manual - Page 21
Purpose: Apply new learning to the SIP Cycle
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Team Planning Time (45 minutes)

15. LUNCH
Time: 30 minutes (1/1 slide)

16. Change… “People don’t resist change; they resist being changed.’”
Peter Scholtes
Time: 45 min. (1/7 slides)
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual.
Purpose: Connect experience of change with process (being vs. choosing)
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Activity Notes: TABLE Partner share: Think about a change in your life. What makes change easy? Difficult? What phases do you go through when you are in a change process?

17. Exploring Stages 2 & 3 Divide table into Group 1 & Group 2
Group 1 will fill in the chart from reading pages
Group 2 will fill in the chart from reading pages
Groups 1 & 2 will share their information and coaching questions
Share insights and other questions
Time: 45 min. (2/7 slides)
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual.
Purpose: Learn
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18. Mental models… shape our thinking filter what we hear
lead us to conclusions
Time: 45 min. (3/7 slides)
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual.
Purpose: Understand the power of mental models to shape our thinking / perceptions and ultimately our conclusions.
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19. Data & Process Tools - HBSST
Numerical Data Tools – Pages and
Ladder of Inference – Page 66
5 Whys – Pages
Cause and Effect – Pages
Relations Diagram – Pages
Time: 45 min. (4/7 slides)
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual.
Purpose: Become familiar with tools in their Handbook that are helpful in examining and challenging mental models
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20. Acknowledging Possible approaches for acknowledging:
What you’re saying is…
So when you ______, _____ happens.
Let me see if I get this…
What you’re telling me is that…
I’m hearing you say…
Let me give that back to you so we can make sure I got it.
In other words…
So…
Time: 45 minutes (5/7 slides)
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual
Purpose: Understand coaching questions and competencies needed to challenge mental models
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21. Clarifying
Client: I’m really trying to create more balance in my life.
Coach: What do you mean by balance?
Client: Well I guess that means that I’d be meeting everyone’s needs and fulfilling all my needs.
Coach: Talk to me about what it means when you say meet others needs?
Client: It means meeting people’s expectations.
Coach: What expectations do you believe people have for you?
Time: 45 minutes (6/7 slides)
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual
Purpose: Understand coaching questions and competencies needed to challenge mental models
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22. Coaching Journey Coaching Style 6 Principles of Coaching (123-124)
SMART Coaching Cycle (127,129)
Laboratory of Grace
Set the Foundation
Introduction to Coaching Competencies
Learning Opportunity: Cycle Questions
Conscious Competence
Time: 45 minutes (7/7 slides)
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual
Purpose: Summarize where they have been in their coaching journey thus far.
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23. Laboratory of Grace: Coaching for Change
Experience coaching a team around resistance to change.
Time: 60 minutes (1/3 Slides)
Purpose: Challenge myself as a coach.
Resources Required: Participant Manual pages
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Coach: Coach for 10 minute using all stages of the cycle and instructions on pages
Coachee: Provide the focus of your coaching session
Observer: Provide Coach with evidence of their use of the competencies of the SMART Coaching cycle (page 153).
4. Prepare for your coaching session: 5-7 minutes
Suggestion: Recreate the cycle in your journal. Gather your thoughts around the “focus” of the clients session. Think about how you would serve you coachee, using the SMART Coaching Cycle
5 Begin coaching session and debrief
10 minutes coaching
5 minutes debrief from observer; questions and comments from coach and coachee.

24. SMART Coaching Cycle STAGE 4: STAGE 1: STAGE 3: STAGE 2: Plan to
Take Action
STAGE 1:
Set the
Foundation
STAGE 3:
Identify the Need for Change
STAGE 2:
Examine the Data
Time: 60 minutes (2/3)
Purpose: Quick review the four stages around the SMART Coaching Cycle – Connect Session II and III.
Lecture Notes: Introduce the SMART Coaching Cycle and highlight each stage as follows:
Stage 1: Set the Foundation. This stage is critical for developing the relationship between the coach and the client.
Stage 2: Examine the Data allows the coach and client to look at the reality of the situation through different perspectives, lenses, and data sources to validate or dispute current perceptions.
Stage 3: Identify the Need for Change: This stage shifts the current mindset into future possibilities for better results. The coach uses powerful questions for the client to establish a future vision of self, team, and/or organization.
Stage 4: Plan to Take Action: Every coaching conversation should end with the client taking an action step or steps toward the goal. This stage is critical for improvement. The next coaching conversation relies on the action of the client to achieve his/her goal.
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Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual.

25. Laboratory of Grace: Debrief
With your coaching partner, discuss each of the prompts relating to how it felt to coach and how it felt to be coached.
Time: 60 minutes (3/3 Slides)
Purpose: Challenge myself as a coach
Resources Required: Participant Manual
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Reference in the Coaching Tab plus Observer notes
Have coaching triads discuss how each felt using the table of questions on the Lab of Grace Debrief handout
Welcome audience to share 1-5 comments about the experience.
Have audience write down what they learned from this segment of the presentation in their notebook.

26. Energy Break Time: 5 minutes Resources Required: Purpose: Transition
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Energy Break

27. Preparing for Session IV!
Time: 15 minutes (1/5 slides – 3 min)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, Overview Page
Purpose: Set expectations for between sessions work
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Move through the slides in preparation for their team time.
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Team Planning Time (75 Total min.)

28. Learning Opportunity between Sessions III and IV
Meet with your SMART School Improvement Leadership Team to conduct:
Between Steps 4 and 5: Implement Plans
Step #5: Analyze and Refocus
Meet with your SMART Coach.
Prepare the Story of Your SMART Journey to share with your colleagues in Session IV.
Time: 15 minutes (2/5 slides – 3 min)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, Overview Page 9
Purpose: Set expectations for between sessions work
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Move through the slides in preparation for their team time.
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29. Your SMART Journey
Purpose: To share what has been accomplished and to deepen the learning of all participants based on district teams’ application of the SMART School Improvement Process. Activity Overview: In small, mixed groups (i.e., six individuals from different school teams) individuals will take turns sharing their team’s story as it relates to their SMART Goals work back in their schools. Organize and plan your approach.
Time: 15 minutes (3/5 slides – 3 min.)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, Process Tab, pages ; calendars
Purpose: Set expectations for final session work
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30. Sharing Your Journey - Suggestions
Share your SMART goal tree
What data supported the selection of this goal?
Share your ACTION plan
How did you determine the strategies?
Describe the professional learning aligned to your plan.
Share your improvement data
What formative data have you been looking at to determine if your plan is working?
What are the data telling you?
What adjustments have you made as a result of the data?
Time: 15 minutes (4/5 slides – 3 min.)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, Process Tab, pages ; calendars
Purpose: Set expectations for final session work
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31. Sharing Your Journey - Suggestions
Share what remains to be accomplished
What still needs to be done between now and the end of the year?
How will what you do this spring jumpstart your SMART work next year?
Share your development as a SMART coach
What are your strengths as SMART coaches?
What continue to be your needs as SMART coaches?
Time: 15 minutes (5/5 slides –3 min.)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, Process Tab, pages ; calendars
Purpose: Set expectations for final session work
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32. Team Planning Time 4Time: 30 min. (1/1 slides – 30 min.)
Resources Required: Participant Manual, Process Tab, page ; calendars
Purpose: Getting organized and scheduling
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NOTE TO COACHES: This would be a good time to check in with them to make sure they understand how the Journey presentations will happen. They only need to prepare 1 story but they all have to be prepared to share it. Also, check in with them on scheduling your coaching session if you still need to do that.

33. Building capacity for student-focused, goal directed learning
Thank you
SMART People!
Time: End of Day
Resources Required: Not in Participant Manual
Purpose: Show as the participants leave the room
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smartlearningsystems.com
Building capacity for student-focused, goal directed learning