Professional Development: Coaches' Trainings

Cohort A

Statewide Coaches' Trainings

August 7, 2003
  • DIBELS Mentor Coach Training
  • Approaches and Considerations for Collecting Schoolwide DIBELS Data

August 25, 2004
  • Building, Implementing, and Evaluating Effective Reading Teams
  • S & I Update / Lesson Progress Reporting System

November 5, 2004
  • Statewide Coaches' Training Agenda

February 18, 2005
  • Overview of the Data-Based Leadership Model

April 29, 2005
  • Exemplary Schools Presentation: David Hill Elementary
  • Exemplary Schools Presentation: Jefferson Elementary
  • Exemplary Schools Presentation: Oak Grove Elementary

September 9, 2005
  • Statewide Mentor Coaches' Training presentation

November 4, 2005
  • Student-Focused Coaching: Making a Difference for All Readers (Carolyn Denton)

September 28, 2006
  • Instructional Focus Groups, Small Group Instruction, and Independent Time
  • Grade Level Recommendations for HM Phonics/Decoding Screening Test
  • Houghton Mifflin Story Selection Summary (Grade 2)
  • Houghton Mifflin Story Selection Summary (Grade 3)
  • Reading Mastery Plus Coaches' Training presentation
  • Reading and Language Troubleshooting Guide

April 26, 2007
  • Statewide Coaches' Training Agenda

April 24, 2008
  • Oregon Reading First Enhancement Resources list
  • Coaches as Critical Consumers of Research presentation
  • Evaluating Trustworthiness in Educational Research That is Used to Support a Change in Teaching or School Practice tool
  • Action Planning: Spring 2008
  • Early Reading Team Action Planning Booklet (Spring)
  • Grade Level Team Action Planning Booklet (Spring)
  • Continuing Supports for Cohort A
  • Project Data and School Success Stories (Spring 2008)
       (Note: If you want the Mission Impossible music, download the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra version from iTunes!)
  • English and Spanish Reading Performance of English Learners in ORRF Schools: Cohort B and B-ELL After 2 Years of Implementation
  • Oregon Reading First "Top Ten" List presentation (by Laurie Dilbeck)
  • End of Year Celebration presentation (Karen Aquinas)
  • Shared Stories and Reflections handout

Regional Coaches' Trainings

October 2005
  • Retooling on the Program Fidelity Checklist

March 2006
  • Spring 2006 Deliverables Checklist
  • School Description Form

October 2007
  • Lesson Pacing presentation
  • Lesson Progress Form
  • Lesson Progress Tracking Sheet
  • Train the Trainer Vocabulary Session
     • Planning for Vocabulary Instruction handout
     • Practicing Vocabulary Instruction handout
     • Directions for Using Videos in Grade Level Team Meetings
     • Video Handout: Kindergarten Vocabulary Instruction with Anita Archer
     • Video Handout: 2nd Grade Vocabulary Instruction with Anita Archer
     • Instructional Strategies for Practicing Vocabulary Words
     • Instructional Strategies for Teaching Critical, Unknown Vocabulary Words
     • Word Diagrams handout
     • Four Square Vocabulary handout

December 2007
  • Providing Effective Feedback: Coaches and Principals
  • Vocabulary and Comprehension: Read Alouds and Story Structure
     • Vocabulary and Comprehension handouts

February 2008

  • High Benchmark Students Module
    • High Benchmark Reading Instruction presentation
    • Draw-Write Chart
    • Problem-Solution Chart
    • Story Map handout
    • Events Organizational Chart
    • Problem Prediction Chart
    • Five W's Chart
    • Fact and Opinion Chart
    • Vocabulary handout
    • Wordcastles Vocabulary handout
    • High Benchmark Plan Examples
  • Fluency Module
    • Fluency Module presentation
    • Nonsense Word Fluency Performance Grid
    • One-Minute Letter/Sound Dash
    • No Peeps activity
    • 5 x 5 Dash directions
    • 5 x 5 Sample
    • Rapid Reading Chart: Sounds
    • Rapid Reading Chart: Words
    • Whole Class Fluency Practice activity
  • Vocabulary & Comprehension Module
    • Asking Appropriate Questions During Passage Reading presentation
    • Scaffolding Comprehension & Question Generation
    • Questions handout

Cohort B

Statewide Coaches' Trainings

August 15, 2005
  • Statewide Coaches' Training presentation

November 3, 2005
  Student-Focused Coaching: Making a Difference for All Readers (Carolyn Denton)
  • Five Minute Observations presentation

February 16, 2006
  • Purposeful Coaching: A Systematic Approach to Reading Improvement (Carolyn Denton)
  • Observation Non-form
  • Nine General Features of Instruction

April 27, 2006
  • Statewide Coaches' Training Agenda

September 14, 2006
  • Statewide Coaches' Training presentation

November 14, 2006
  • Reading Coach: Ideas and Strategies for Success (Jan Hasbrouck)
  • 25 Minute Process for Academic Concerns form
  • 25 Minute Process for Behavior Concerns form
  • Communication Skills Practice Form

February 27, 2007
  • Spring 2007 Deliverables Checklist
  • Observation Cycle for 2006-2007
  • Targeted Observation Tracking form
  • Statewide Coaches' Training presentation
  • Group Organizer (web version)
  • Group Organizer
  • Lesson Progress Report (1 page per group)
  • Lesson Progress Report (1 page per teacher)
  • Monitoring Adequate Progress document
  • Using LPRs at Grade Level Team Meetings (paper-pencil version)
  • Collecting Student Data During Observations presentation
  • Small Group Decodable Text Reading Routine

April 25, 2007
  • Coaching Observation Strategies: A Follow-Up
  • Sample Observation Debrief

April 24, 2008
  • Oregon Reading First Enhancement Resources list
  • Coaches as Critical Consumers of Research presentation
  • Evaluating Trustworthiness in Educational Research That is Used to Support a Change in Teaching or School Practice tool
  • Action Planning: Spring 2008
  • Early Reading Team Action Planning Booklet (Spring)
  • Grade Level Team Action Planning Booklet (Spring)
  • Continuing Supports for Cohort A
  • Project Data and School Success Stories (Spring 2008)
       (Note: If you want the Mission Impossible music, download the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra version from iTunes!)
  • English and Spanish Reading Performance of English Learners in ORRF Schools: Cohort B and B-ELL After 2 Years of Implementation
  • Oregon Reading First "Top Ten" List presentation (by Laurie Dilbeck)

  • Shared Stories and Reflections handout

Regional Coaches' Meetings

October 2005
  • Progress Monitoring presentation

March 22, 2006
  • Non-Observations / Tracking Student Success Rates

October 2007
  • Lesson Pacing presentation
  • Lesson Progress Forms
  • Lesson Progress Tracking Sheet
  • Train the Trainer Vocabulary session
     • Vocabulary Selection and Instruction Training Notes for Coaches
     • Planning for Vocabulary Instruction handout
     • Practicing Vocabulary Instruction handout
     • Directions for Using Videos in Grade Level Team Meetings
     • Video Handout: Kindergarten Vocabulary Instruction with Anita Archer
     • Video Handout: 2nd Grade Vocabulary Instruction with Anita Archer
     • Instructional Strategies for Practicing Vocabulary Words
     • Instructional Strategies for Teaching Critical, Unknown Vocabulary Words
     • Word Diagrams handout
     • Four Square Vocabulary handout

December 2007
  • Providing Effective Feedback: Coaches and Principals
  • Vocabulary and Comprehension: Read Alouds and Story Structure
     • Vocabulary and Comprehension Handouts

February 2008

  • High Benchmark Students Module
    • High Benchmark Reading Instruction presentation
    • Draw-Write Chart
    • Problem-Solution Chart
    • Story Map handout
    • Events Organizational Chart
    • Problem Prediction Chart
    • Five W's Chart
    • Fact and Opinion Chart
    • Vocabulary handout
    • Wordcastles Vocabulary handout
    • High Benchmark Plan Examples
  • Fluency Module
    • Fluency Module presentation
    • Nonsense Word Fluency Performance Grid
    • One-Minute Letter/Sound Dash
    • No Peeps activity
    • 5 x 5 Dash directions
    • 5 x 5 Sample
    • Rapid Reading Chart: Sounds
    • Rapid Reading Chart: Words
    • Whole Class Fluency Practice activity
  • Vocabulary & Comprehension Module
    • Asking Appropriate Questions During Passage Reading presentation
    • Scaffolding Comprehension & Question Generation
    • Questions handout

Cohort B-ELL

Statewide Coaches' Trainings

August 16, 2005
  • Statewide Coaches' Training presentation

November 4, 2005
  • Relation of Fall DIBELS and IDEL Scores presentation
  • Answers to Coaches' Questions presentation

September 15, 2006
  • Statewide Coaches' Training Agenda

February 28, 2007
  • Spanish Teaching Routines
  •
Identifying Areas of Improvement and Concern, Providing Feedback to Teachers