The Coaches Corner
IMESD & OTREN Regional Coaches Huddle - 4/10/23
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The IMESD Sora Library is a digital library that has 5,854 ebooks, 754 audiobooks, and 173 magazines. The library is also growing its read-along books and has 125 read aloud picture books, 43 read aloud ES, and 173 read-alongs. Christie Boen, the librarian, is also happy to take requests.
For teachers and coaches the Sora library has 48 audio and ebook professional development books.
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Jim Knight has developed a model instructional playbook that utilizes strategies shared in the book High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching. If you are looking at revising your coaches playbook or building one for the first time- this is a great place to start.
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The Advice Trap- Michael Bungay
From the website: The Advice Trap is about getting to grips with how to actually change your behavior so you stay curious a little bit longer. You have to tame your Advice Monster, that part of you that jumps in to offer up ideas, opinions, suggestions and advice.
Drive- Daniel Pink
From the website: Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That’s a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink. In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
The instructional coaches (Beth, Ayla, and Jennifer) are part of the Instructional Services Department at the InterMountain Education Service District. Our three focus areas this year are:
- School-level Impact Teams
- Educator Huddles (Content-Specific, GROW- Beginning Teachers, EdTech, Regional Coaches)
- One-on-one or small group coaching cycles
Please contact us for more information about the Coaching Huddle or how we can support you and your school.
Email: instructionalcoaches@imesd.k12.or.us
Website: https://sites.google.com/imesdapps.org/instructional-coaching/home