PIIC

[|www.piic.pacoaching.org]



The Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching (PIIC) provides the uniform and consistent delivery of sustained professional development around instructional coaching and mentoring. **Vision: **PIIC works to build teacher capacity as a means of increasing student engagement, improving student achievement.
 * Mission:**

**__PIIC’s model of effective coaching to assist teachers in classrooms is based upon these core elements: __** Design Principles:
 * PIIC defines an instructional coach as** someone whose chief professional responsibility is to bring evidence-based practices into classrooms by working with teachers and other school leaders.
 * PIIC advocates one-on-one support for teachers, coaches, and school leaders
 * PIIC emphasizes the use of evidence-based literacy practices and research-based instructional techniques
 * PIIC supports reflective and non-evaluative practices
 * PIIC focuses on collecting and analyzing data to identify student needs, assess changes in classroom instructional practice and measure student progress

**One-on-one instructional coaching ** **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Evidence-based literacy practices and instructional techniques ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">What do we teach coaches to do?
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 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Supported by a mentor, the “coach’s coach”
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 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Tied to standards, research, best practices, and student achievement

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Coaches work with teachers, school leaders, other coaches and mentors to: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">How do coaches coach?
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Identify strategies for working with adult learners
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Help teachers re-focus time on task
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Co-teach, model, demonstrate units of study with teachers
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Coaches work one-on-one, in small groups, and in whole faculty groups in schools, districts, and intermediate units with teachers and school leaders to implement the PIIC model around:
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Using the B, D, A (before, during, after) cycle of planning, assessment and reflection
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 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Using formative and summative assessments to guide classroom instruction
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Designing strategies for increasing student engagement and improving student achievement
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Promoting an understanding of the PA Standards-Aligned System, 21st century skills and the resiliency approach to student learning
 * <span style="display: block; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo5; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">The partnership principles and the gradual release of responsibility