ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What does student-centered coaching look like in your school? Diane Sweeney breaks down student-centered coaching to support your teachers and teams.
Diane Sweeney has been an author and educational consultant since 1999. The author of Student-Centered Coaching from a Distance (Corwin, 2021), The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2020), Leading Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2018), Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves (Corwin, 2016), et al., Diane holds a longstanding interest in how adult learning translates to learning in the classroom. Diane holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Denver and a Master’s in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder. After teaching and coaching in the Denver Public Schools, Diane served as a program officer at the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC) in Denver. Since then she has become a respected voice in the field of coaching and professional development.
Topics
- Joyce & Showers Research [01:56]
- The importance of instructional coaching [03:15]
- What is student-centered coaching? [05:21]
- Coaching continuum [07:29]
- Visible Learning [10:53]
- Defining the roles of a coach and a principal [13:39]
- Equity and coaching [17:16]
- How to coaches can appropriately communicate teacher progress with their principal [20:28]
- Providing choice around task, time, technique, and team [23:38]
- Build collective efficacy by letting coaches do their job [26:20]
- Push and pull of a coaching culture [29:30]
- Student centered coaching moves [30:54]
- What does a student-centered coaching cycle look like? [32:09]
- The duration of coaching cycles [36:01]
- Outcomes for a coaching cycle: primary vs secondary levels [38:07]
- Checklists vs Look-Fors [41:23]
- Team coaching [43:29]
- Diane’s challenge [47:09]
Link and resources from the show:
- Diane Sweeney’s books
- Jim Knight’s book: Instructional Coaching: A partnership approach to improving instruction
- Visible Learning research and John Hattie’s first book, Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement
- James Flaherty’s Integral Coaching and book, Coaching: Evoking excellence in others
