How Instructional Coaching and Data Analysis Can Help Teaching and Learning Get Better!

MSAA Professional Development Workshop for School Administrators, Principals, Assistant Principals, Teachers, and Guidance Counselors

How Instructional Coaching and Data Analysis Can Help Teaching and Learning 
Get Better!

The best professional athletes are continuously coached; why aren’t more educators coached? Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention in schools; it is designed for improving human performance. The session will answer the following key questions: Why is coaching in schools important? What are the benefits for all? What is instructional coaching for teachers and administrators? What does coaching look like? Why trust is paramount? What are some redacted examples of coaching observation and data? What video resources for refinement will the coach provide? The tenants of this Instructional Coaching program can also provide a school with a data-driven baseline of what’s happening, what’s not happening, and how often it happens across the disciplines and grades. This information can be used to validate proficient/exemplary teaching and to serve as data for goals for instructional practice refinement.

Workshop Objectives:  

·         Explain why instructional coaching can lead to good teaching, in more classrooms, more of the time

·         Describe the inductive approach to collecting data, analyzing data, and making informed decisions about what is happening and what is not happening in the classroom

·         Discover a mnemonic approach to skillfully being able to match teaching moves in real time

·         Compare and contrast at least twenty different models of teaching

·         Realize that instructional coaching is perhaps the quickest way to really improve teaching and learning

·         Empower educators, with encouragement and coaching, to solve their own problems rather than solving the problems for them

When: Wednesday, March 5, 2025, from 8:30 am to 11:30 am

Delivery Method: In-Person Workshop

Location: The MSAA Office, 33 Forge Parkway, Franklin, MA

Presenter: Thomas L. Brow, Jr., Seaside Educational Consultants

PD Hours: 3 in Content Area Leadership and Administration

Fees: Member $150 / Non-Member $205

MSAA Contact: Ethel Kawesa, ekawesa@msaa.net 

Thomas L. Brow, Jr. | Seaside Educational Consultants

Tom Brow, an educational consultant, instructional coach, former teacher, high school social studies department head, and middle school principal for many years, earned a Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a Master’s degree in Community Education and a C.A.G.S Degree in Administration. Tom presented bi-monthly workshops at an annual pre-K-12 induction program for well over a decade and has coached teachers and administrators. He has earned numerous marks of recognition from the local Excellence in Education Award, Middlesex District Attorney’s Citizenship in Action Award, to co-runner up Massachusetts Teacher of the Year Award. His vast experience in middle school education both in classroom instruction and supervision, his love of skillful teaching and learning, and his enthusiasm is evident at all his workshops.