Increasing Your Impact as an Instructional Coach (Grades K-6)

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You won't want to miss this outstanding opportunity to participate in Lynne Ecenbarger's timely seminar with updated ideas and strategies for increasing your effectiveness as an Instructional Coach. With increased demands and a need to support all teachers – from first year teachers to veterans – the challenges you face are real. Lynne's expertise with coaching using practical, high-impact strategies that get results are just the new ideas you need to tackle those challenges. In this seminar, Lynne will provide you with dozens of practical tips, tools, and strategies to assist you in creating, sustaining, or building on your existing practices. This outstanding seminar will also include proven instructional strategies shown to increase the impact your coaching has on the teachers you support but, more importantly, on the students they serve. Don't miss this opportunity to join Lynne and discover powerful instructional coaching strategies and gain a wealth of new ideas you can immediately utilize.

The work of an instructional coach isn't easy. As on-site professional developers, we must be skilled in a variety of roles in order to be well positioned to assist teachers in putting evidence-based best practices to use in the classroom. One very important role includes building relationships centered around a shared responsibility for thoughtful classroom data collection, lesson design that includes high impact teaching strategies, and non-judgmental dialogue and feedback.

Being an instructional coach myself, I know it's easy to get so focused on student learning that you can overlook your own. That is why I have planned this exciting seminar just for you! I understand that in order to move a school forward, we must spend the bulk of our time working with teachers on best instructional practices and then examining together the results of that instruction by collecting ongoing, formative classroom assessments. I also understand how to navigate the complexities of helping adults, beginning with setting norms for a safe environment that include keeping the focus on student learning and on issues rather than people.

I promise to share proven techniques, resources, and student-centered strategies that can be easily customized to provide your teachers with more practical, consistent, and focused support. The result will be a plan of action for successfully transferring and tailoring these coaching skills to your respective settings. You will leave energized and motivated knowing that the teachers you work with trust that you are knowledgeable and have informed opinions about teaching and learning.

I hope you can join me for this action-packed day!

P.S. If you're looking for practical strategies that you can implement tomorrow, then this seminar is for you!

Extensive Digital Resource Handbook Each participant will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. The handbook includes:

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with others interested in gaining new and improved instructional coaching strategies and techniques.

Consultation Available Lynne Ecenbarger will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own program.

Semester Credit Option Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

What you'll learn

• Specific student-centered coaching strategies for increasing your own expertise
• Powerful ways to build teacher capacity for selecting, implementing, evaluating, and fostering teacher reflection regarding the results of high impact teaching strategies
• Highly effective techniques for facilitating educator growth, development, and professional learning in ways that lead to higher learner achievement
• Practical approaches that promote deliberate and intentional conversations