Getting Better Faster: Coaching Teachers for Maximal Impact
In music, athletics, medicine, and other fields, excellence is achieved with great coaching—what does that look like in education? Unfortunately, observation and feedback often focuses on evaluating teachers on extensive rubrics that don’t lead to effective change in teaching performance. Get Better Faster chooses a different starting point: it shares the lessons learned from the most effective leaders and coaches from across the country. This session will bring their coaching to life and super-charge our teachers’ development. By the end of the session, you will be able to:
- identify the right action steps during an observation
- give effective feedback that helps a teacher get better immediately
Presenter's Bio:
Paul Bambrick-Santoyo is the Chief Schools Officer for High Schools and K-12 Content Development and the Founder and Dean of the Leverage Leadership Institute, creating proofpoints of excellence in urban schools nationwide. Author of multiple books, including Leverage Leadership 2.0, Get Better Faster, Driven by Data, A Principal Manager’s Guide to Leverage Leadership, and Great Habits, Great Readers, Bambrick-Santoyo has trained over 20,000 school leaders worldwide in instructional leadership, including multiple schools that have gone on to become the highest-gaining or highest achieving schools in their districts, states and/or countries. Prior to these roles, Bambrick-Santoyo co-founded the Relay National Principals Academy Fellowship and spent 13 years leading North Star Academies in Newark, NJ, whose results are among the highest-achieving urban schools in the nation. Prior to his work at North Star, Bambrick-Santoyo worked for six years in a bilingual school in Mexico City, where he founded the International Baccalaureate program. He earned a B.A. from Duke University and his M.Ed. in School Administration via New Leaders from the City University of New York—Baruch College.