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 * Day 1: **

Day 1 enacted the first principle of highly effective professional learning - that all professional learning focus on valued student learning outcomes. We noticed that this perplexed some of our learners - it wasn't what they expected from a literacy coaching program. Our recent research on effective school based professional learning found that educators at all levels often struggled to articulate a clear student learning focus to anchor their professional learning. We are mindful that while we may have raised consciousness about what it means to be a powerfully literate learner, we need to revisit this and check to see what connections have been made to the literacy coaching endeavours in schools.

This day focused on the educational, symbolic and cultural dimensions of leadership as they relate to the coaching role.

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This month concentrate on finding focus….. a) for your personal learning in relation to establishing literacy coaching in your school b) in relation to the priority area of student learning to be addressed through literacy coaching

£ Converse with your school leaders, colleagues and students about what they see as the priority literacy learning needs related to these areas: · Reading for deep understanding · Writing to build and express meaning · Developing accountable talk and the meta-language of learning · Developing contemporary literate practices and fluency with digital media

£ Decide which coaching option/s would be most realistic and relevant for you this year: · Establishing coaching conversations in your classroom – student to student or you to student. Later you open your room to colleagues to see coaching in action. · Establishing a reverse coaching relationship with a colleague – they provide you with feedback as you learn to coach with a goal of strengthening of literacy learning with a target group of learners · Establishing a coaching relationship with a colleague or team of colleagues – with a focus on strengthening teaching that relates to your student literacy learning focus. · Establishing a coaching relationship with your leadership team – to create the readiness, culture and structures for effective literacy coaching in your school

£ Form a local learning circle with 2-3 trusted colleagues – to build capacity and support learning in your local context. Agree on frequency of meeting (e.g. fortnightly).

£ Identify 2-3 students to follow as a way of determining impact of coaching conversations. Have a conversation, invite them to participate in your learning circle and assist you to monitor if what you try is working.

£ Professional Reading - please choose one reading from the folder that seems relevant for you and be prepared to discuss with one of your o'clock appointments next time.

£ Other ideas that you think could help people get started:

If you would like to use the story of Hai and The Night Tiger you can view or download from our SparkL website: http://www.SparkL.edu.au