Texas Instructional Leadership Overview Last Updated 2142019 How

Texas Instructional Leadership Overview Last Updated: 2/14/2019

How Well Are Educators Coached? ➢ Continuous growth and development ➢ Coaching teachers and principals toward improvement 2

Coaching Matters Instruction Related Tasks of Principals Math Effect Size Classroom walkthroughs -0. 154 Formally evaluating teachers 0. 245 Preparing or delivering teacher PD (whole group) -0. 040 Developing the educational program (reviewing lesson plans, 0. 349 reviewing curriculum implementation with teachers, etc. ) “Other” instructional tasks (analyzing data, designing intervention programs, scheduling tutoring sessions, etc. ) -0. 064 Coaching teachers to improve their instruction 1. 057 Grissom, J. A. , Loeb, S. , Master, B. (2013). Effective instructional time use for school leaders: Longitudinal evidence from observation of principals. Educational Researcher, 42(8), 433 -444. 3

TIL Strategy – A Two-Pronged Approach Directly Train Districts in Hot Spots Build ESC Capacity PHASE 1 PHASE 2 “Learn” “Define & Develop” PHASE 3 ESC 11 ESCs 7/8 ESC 4/5 “Implement” 4

How Did We Do? 48% decrease in D/F campuses 117% increase in A/B campuses 5

How Did We Do? -0. 5% -46. 6% +151. 5% -17. 1% 5045 less students on D/F campuses 5721 more students on A/B campuses +27. 8% 6

What Is TIL? 7

The Purpose of TIL Training Implement systems that surface and close gaps as quickly and thoroughly as possible for those whose growth they oversee 8

Framing Questions • How do we know if students are learning? • If student are not learning, what do we do about it? 9

Getting Poolside A Video Case Study 10

Man on Fire • What does Creasy do to evaluate Pita’s performance? • What makes Creasy’s analysis effective? Man on Fire 1 - First Race Man on Fire 2 - So what do I do? 11

Core Idea: To maximize growth, we first have to know specifically what students can and can’t do. 12

Man on Fire After a solid analysis, what makes Creasy’s action plan effective? Man on Fire 3 - The gunshot holds no fear and training 13

Core Idea: How do we find more time to teach our students? Spend less time teaching what they already know and more on what they need. 14

Core Idea: To maximize growth, we first have to know specifically what students teachers can and can’t do. 15

Getting Poolside Ø Ø Ø Teachers must get poolside with students Campus leaders must get poolside with teachers Principals must get poolside with campus leaders Principal supervisors must get poolside with principals ESCs must get poolside with principal supervisors TEA must get poolside with ESCs 16

What is Texas Instructional Leadership? TIL builds the capacity of the school principal and those who support him or her so that they can continuously improve instruction for all students. 17

The Work Includes Three Components Face-to-Face Professional Development Implementation Support One on One Coaching 18

Training Subject Matter Observation & Feedback Data-Driven Instruction Student Culture Routines Lesson Planning Formative Assessment 19

Core Idea: The best professional development doesn’t align with best practices in change management. The best professional development is change management. 20

Switch Change Framework • DIRECT THE RIDER : What looks like resistance is often lack of clarity • MOTIVATE THE ELEPHANT : What looks like laziness is often exhaustion • SHAPE THE PATH : What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem 21

Face-to-Face PD Audience: Campus level leadership teams and principal supervisors. What it is ● ● Motivate the elephant - the power of the moves, belief they can do it Clarify the destination - See it, Name it Practice living at the destination - Do it Shrink the change and shape the path practice with tools and ID your go-to resources What it isn’t ● ● A time to work through implementation nuances and considerations Where participants will get to proficiency 22

Implementation Support Audience: Principal Supervisor What it is ● ● ● ● Focused - shrink the change, stack success Rooted in action steps A time to monitor progress and gather evidence of implementation An opportunity to work through implementation nuances and contexts A time to provide real-time feedback A time to push through change management barriers A time to model for the PS, if necessary What it isn’t ● ● ● A substitute for one-on-one coaching A time to work directly with principals or CLTs without the PS present Unorganized or without an agenda 23

One-on-One Coaching Audience: Principal Supervisor What it is ● ● ● Adheres to a See it, Name it, Do it coaching cadence Based on evidence of implementation and skill development (observation, artifacts, video) Something tracked (Action Step Tracker) Something followed up on (determination of mastery of Action Step assigned) An opportunity to model strong planning and execution of coaching At least a monthly occurrence What it isn’t ● ● A check in Reschedulable (unless true emergency) Mentoring a principal supervisor More than 30 -40 minutes 24

Continuous Support ESC TIL Team 102 ESC staff trained in 20182019 176 ESC staff trained in 20192020 ESCs working with approximately 265 campuses in 2019 -2020 District and Campus Teams 25

Questions/Comments? 26