Student-Centered Coaching with Diane Sweeney

What does student-centered coaching look like in your school? Diane Sweeney breaks down student-centered coaching to support your teachers and teams.

Diane Sweeney has been an author and educational consultant since 1999.  The author of Student-Centered Coaching from a Distance (Corwin, 2021), The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2020), Leading Student-Centered Coaching  (Corwin, 2018), Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves (Corwin, 2016), et al., Diane holds a longstanding interest in how adult learning translates to learning in the classroom. Diane holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Denver and a Master’s in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder. After teaching and coaching in the Denver Public Schools, Diane served as a program officer at the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC) in Denver. Since then she has become a respected voice in the field of coaching and professional development.

Topics

• Joyce & Showers Research  [01:56] 
• The importance of instructional coaching [03:15]
• What is student-centered coaching? [05:21]
• Coaching continuum [07:29]
• Visible Learning [10:53]
• Defining the roles of a coach and a principal [13:39]
• Equity and coaching [17:16]
• How to coaches can appropriately communicate teacher progress with their principal [20:28]
• Providing choice around task, time, technique, and team [23:38]
• Build collective efficacy by letting coaches do their job [26:20]
• Push and pull of a coaching culture [29:30]
• Student centered coaching moves [30:54]
• What does a student-centered coaching cycle look like? [32:09]
• The duration of coaching cycles [36:01]
• Outcomes for a coaching cycle: primary vs secondary levels [38:07]
• Checklists vs Look-Fors [41:23]
• Team coaching [43:29]
• Diane’s challenge [47:09]

Link and resources from the show:

• Diane Sweeney’s books
• Jim Knight’s book: Instructional Coaching: A partnership approach to improving instruction
• Visible Learning research and John Hattie’s first book, Visible Learning: A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement
• James Flaherty’s Integral Coaching and book, Coaching: Evoking excellence in others