Professional Development

Capacity Building for Instructional Facilitators

Grade Levels

  • K-12 Instructional Facilitators
  • K-12 Administrators

Approved Areas of Professional Development

  • Advocacy/leadership
  • Assessment
  • Building a collaborative learning community
  • Instructional strategies
  • Mentoring/coaching
  • Principles of learning/developmental stages
  • Systemic change process

Description

Capacity Building for Instructional Facilitators is a one-year professional development opportunity offered through a partnership with the Arkansas Department of Education, the education service cooperatives, and the STEM centers. It is designed for instructional facilitators that have completed Instructional Facilitator Professional Development, the eight-day training based on Dr. Jim Knight's work. This professional learning incorporates the works of Dr. Jim Knight, Joellen Killion, Stephen Barkley, and Diane Sweeney, as participants engage in coaching labs to develop and sustain coaching cycles, design learning labs, and monitor the impact of coaching on student achievement.

Training Schedule

This professional development will take place over four days: two days at the educational cooperative and two days in a lab classroom setting at a school site. The lab setting will be limited to 10 participants. Additional lab days are available upon request.

Research

  • Instructional Coaching Kansas Coaching Project. Instructional Coaching Research. Retrieved from http://www.instructionalcoach.org/research.html
  • The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement. "Instructional Coaching," by Julie Kowal & Lucy Steiner. Issue Brief, September 2007:Learning Point Associates in partnership with the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL), under contract with the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from http://www.centerforcsri.org
  • The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement. "Principal as Instructional Coach," by Lucy Steiner & Julie Kowal. Issue Brief, September 2007: Learning Point Associates in partnership with the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL), under contract with the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from http://www.centerforcsri.org

Professional Text

  • Student-Centered Coaching: A Guide for K-8 Coaches and Principals, by Diane Sweeney. (978-1-4129-8043-2)

For more information please contact:

Literacy specialists at your local education service cooperative.