(District Name) Middle and High School Coaching Plan 2017-18

10 Things To Do as a Keys to Literacy Building Coach/Coach Team
(shared responsibility)
TASK / EXPLANATION WITH LINKS TO RELATED DOCS
1. Communicate your role to the staff. / What is the role of the coach? Who are the coaches?
  • DOCS: HS Coach Communication; Mid School Coach Communication

2. Lead by example. / EXAMPLES:
Develop a SMART goal (as an a individual, team or department) focused on literacy*.
  • DOCS: KTL SMART Goal Focus: Suggestions; Sample Team Goal
*KTL Trainer can help you develop your SMART goals
Create an opportunity for literacy sharing to be part of the agenda for a team meeting/department meeting/faculty meeting, and share a highlight or example from your classroom/instruction*.
*KTL Trainer can support agenda items & at times, attend mtgs.
Open up your classroom to peer observation:
  • on follow up days with KTL Trainer
  • informally - send out an email when you have a KTL or literacy related lesson occurring - inviting peers to attend if the timing is flexible in their schedule
  • formally - coordinate with administration to provide coverage for a teacher or small group of teachers

3. Directly support KTL follow up days (with KTL Trainer) at your building. / KTL Trainer and lead administrator will request your input and support with content and logistics of the building-based follow up days with KTL. Schedule coach meeting time during these days.
  • DOCS: Schedule of follow up dates with KTL Trainer

4. Share supports for the rationale and overall goals for using KTL in an ongoing way.
●by email
●dept. meetings
●team meetings
●faculty meetings / Make connections to state literacy standards that are responsibility of all teachers – how does KTL instruction support?
  • DOCS: Common Core Literacy Overiew Topic Web; Reading/Writing/Speak & Listen/Language Anchor Standards; Grade-by Grade Standards
Make connections to state Digital Literacy Standards
  • DOCS: State Digital Literacy & Computer Science Standards; KTL and Digital Literacy Cheat Sheet
For High School: Make connections to SAT Shifts
  • DOCS: SAT Shifts; SAT and the Common Core Connections
Make connections to research related to best practices
Make connections to subject-department content and literacy instruction goals
  • DOCS: Science and Social Studies state standards

5. Meet with your lead administrators to go over your role and the coach action plan for 2017-18. / Develop overall goals for 2017-18 for your dept/grade level/team to be shared with KTL Trainer and lead admin
  • DOCS: KTL Coach Action Plan Template

6. Share ongoing resources with staff and/or department members. / EXAMPLES:
Share relevant blog posts- Link to:
  • Keys to Literacy Blog: Literacy Lines
Achieve the Core website – Link to:
  • Literacy Lesson Plans lessons designed to highlight the ELA/Literacy shifts and expectations of college- and career-ready standards
  • Many ELA & Social Studies examples
Engage NY website – Link to:
  • 9th Grade ELA Unit
  • 6th Grade ELA Unit
Next Generation Science Standards website – Link to:
  • Middle School Science sample classroom task with literacy integration
  • High School Science sample classroom task with literacy integration

7. Communicate a monthly update to KTL Trainer and lead admin. / Send monthly updates to KTL Trainer & Lead Admin – begin in October
  • DOC: Monthly Coach Update Template

8. Meet with new teachers for a mini overview. / Check in with new teachers to give them a brief overview of KTL and the PD plans for the year. This will help them participate in various follow up activities.
Share KTL training materials - KTL Trainer can help you pull together materials. Examples:
  • Coach’s Big Ideas PowerPoint
  • Trainin and book study questions
  • KTL online resources
Develop a plan for getting new teachers initial training (e.g., attend a public KTL session; have them take the online training course)
9. Curate a literacy folder within the department and/or grade level with examples of KTL lessons, activities. / Set up by department at the high school, by grade level at the middle school
Use a common platform - Google Drive (Team Drive)
Filtered through dept head & coach so it is not a dumping ground
Common overall folder titles (then subdivide folders by choice). Examples:
  • Various implementation docs (including those listed above)
  • Samples of KTL reading instruction lessons, templates (e.g., topic webs, two-column notes, summarizing, question generation, main idea skills)
  • Samples of KTL writing instruction lessons, templates (e.g., WAGS/SWAGS, Quick Writes, models for analyzing writing, student writing samples, feedback checklists and rubrics,)
Goals include: sharing resources, curating evidence of implementation in order to reflect upon our practices, collaborating & communicating with key stakeholders (peers, admin, KTL)