1. 2017-2018 Illinois SMART School Academy
Session IV, Day 8
April 12, 2018

2. Tell Us Your Stories! Time: 90 minutes (2/2 slides)
Resources Required: District / School Presentation Materials; separate tables / areas for teams to meet.
Purpose: Learn about each school or district’s journey of learning
Lecture Notes:
Activity Notes: 10 minute presentations followed by 20 minutes of conversation

3. Team Time to Debrief and Plan
Time: 60 minutes (1/1 slides)
Resources Required: Team presentations
Purpose: Time to debrief all teams’ stories and to process what was learned from the full experience.
Lecture Notes:
Activity Notes:

4. Team Learning
Identify patterns of challenges and successes from the stories you heard.
What did you learn that you may want to incorporate into your own plans going forward?
Document specific tools, strategies and approaches you heard from your colleagues.
How did other schools and districts go about engaging their entire staff in the SMART School Improvement Process?
Note key takeaways from these two days.

5. Improvement Science FOCUS IMPROVEMENT + ACTION COMMITMENT
MEASURABLE GROWTH
ACCELERATION
& DEPTH

6. Your plan…leads to change

7. SMART Coaching Cycle STAGE 4: STAGE 1: STAGE 3: STAGE 2: Plan to
Take Action
STAGE 1:
Set the
Foundation
Page 144 of
your
Participant
Manual
STAGE 3:
Identify the Need for Change
STAGE 2:
Examine the Data

8. SMART Coaching Cycle Coach asks ?s to: Set the Foundation
Page 144 of
your
Participant
Manual
Coach asks ?s to:
Plan to Take Action
Coach asks ?s to:
Identify the Need for Change
Coach asks ?s to:
Examine the Data

9. SMART Coaching Cycle Coachee: My Commitment Coachee: My Focus Coachee:
Page 144 of
your
Participant
Manual
Coachee:
My Commitment
Coachee:
My Focus
Coachee:
My Considerations
Coachee:
My Insights

10. SMART Coaching Cycle STAGE 4: STAGE 1: STAGE 3: STAGE 2: Plan to
Take Action
STAGE 1:
Set the
Foundation
Page 144 of
your
Participant
Manual
STAGE 3:
Identify the Need for Change
STAGE 2:
Examine the Data

11. Educational Change Model
1. Inquiry
2. Initiation
3. Implementation
4. Institutionalization
Pages of your Participant Manual

12. Inquiry Asks questions about why change should happen
Believes change needs to happen, although not for themselves or their classroom but for others
Fakes change

13. Inquiry: Coaching Skills
Acknowledge fear/hesitation
Identify consequences of not making the change, even making a change
Generates a commitment of support

14. Initiation Begin to actively participate
Common commitment to move forward
Change is linked to a high profile focus

15. Initiation: Coaching Skills
Help teams/individuals identify data, goals, strategies, resources and action
Secure a commitment to the plan

16. Implementation Well on the way Receive ongoing technical assistance
Excited about the change
Change is an expectation and a shared responsibility

17. Implementation: Coaching Skills
Continues to keep teams/individuals focused, motivated and committed to change
Uses empowering questions, reflective dialogue and accountability
Helps understand depth of change process

18. Institutionalization
The way the system acts
Embedded into practice
Clear alignment of priorities and goals
Questions what else needs to be changed to improve continuous improvement

19. Institutionalization: Coaching Skills
Builds on teams successes
Promotes self-efficacy
Asks what opportunities there are for change

20. Reflective Questions for the SMART Coaching Cycle
Purpose: New coaching resource
Outcome: Align empowering questions to stages of change:
Inquiry
Initiation
Implementation
Institutionalization
Pages of your Participant Manual

21. Laboratory of Grace Debrief
Determine your Coaching Focus:
Select an element of your team’s plan that you would like to further examine

22. Observer feedback – 3 minutes
Laboratory of Grace
ROUND 1
ROUND 2
ROUND 3 A B C
Coach - 12 minutes
Observer feedback – 3 minutes

23. Observer feedback – 3 minutes
Laboratory of Grace
ROUND 1
ROUND 2
ROUND 3 A
Coach
Observer
Coachee B C
Coach - 10 minutes
Observer feedback – 3 minutes

24. SMART Coaching Cycle: Stages and Competencies
Page 157 of
your
Participant
Manual

25. Your Culminating Vision
Create a metaphoric image of how your school/district will be different in 5 years as a result of your SMART process and SMART coaching.

26. Passing the Baton
Resources and Support
Agreements

27. Building a legacy of student-focused, goal directed learning.
Thank you
SMART People!
smartlearningsystems.com
Building a legacy of student-focused, goal directed learning.