Instructional Coaching Action Plan Bundle - PD, PLCs, and coaching cycle forms

With the Instructional Coaching Action Plan Bundle, you will...

• conduct a needs assessment and collect data about your school
• identify areas of growth and weakness
• make a plan for action to support growth at three different levels
• provide engaging, purposeful PD that gets implemented
• facilitate meaningful PLCs where teachers truly collaborate
• identify where to focus your 1:1 coaching cycles
• coach individual teachers based on their areas of growth

This Instructional Coaching Action Plan Bundle includes four valuable, time-saving tools for instructional coaches:

1. Instructional Coaching Action Plan Toolkit (Action Plan guide, needs assessment forms and more)
2. Professional Development Toolkit (PD guide, slide shows, handouts & activities)
3. PLC Toolkit (agendas, templates & norms)
4. Instructional Coaching Cycle Forms: (coaching cycle forms, observation forms, & templates)

⭐ File Formats This kit is a zip file that includes many different folders and documents to help you prepare professional development! In order to fully use this kit, you will need...

• the capability to open zip files
• Preview or Adobe Reader to open and print documents
• Adobe Reader (updated) to edit documents
• Keynote or PowerPoint (updated versions) to edit the presentation files

Please read on for a detailed breakdown of what this invaluable Instructional Coaching Action Plan Bundle includes!

⭐ What's included in this Instructional Coaching Action Plan Bundle - PD, PLCs, and coaching cycle forms?

1. Instructional Coaching Action Plan Toolkit (Action Plan guide, needs assessment forms and more)

Make an intentional action plan for instructional coaching with this Instructional Coaching Action Plan Toolkit! Collect data and conduct a needs assessment, coordinate with your administration, make an action plan for professional development or professional learning, PLCs, and individual coaching cycles, implement your plan and evaluate it!

⭐ What's included in this Instructional Coaching Action Plan Toolkit?

The School-wide Action Plan Guide (24 pages):

• How to make your action plan
• Collect Data to conduct a needs assessment: 4 data points
• Analyze data to identify strengths and areas of growth
• Make a plan to take action for professional development, PLCs, and individualized coaching cycles
• Implement & evaluate to create next steps

Surveys & forms for collecting data/needs assessment

• Administration Conversation Guide (2 pgs)
• Teacher Input Survey (2 pgs)
• 4-square observation guide and observation form (2 pgs)
• Classroom sweep documents (2 pgs

Analyze the data

• Data Points document

Make your action plan

• School-wide action plan
• Teacher clarity document: Ideas for buy-in and clarity (2 pgs.)
• Tier I: PD topics for the year planner
• Tier I: PD plan document and sample plan (2 pgs)
• Tier II: PLC plan
• Tier II: PLC preparation template
• Tier III: Tiering teachers for support
• Monthly action plan
• Coaching goals template

Implement & Evaluate

• Classroom sweep revisited (2 pgs)
• Check-in forms for teachers, 3 editable versions
• School-wide action plan: check-in
• School-wide action plan: next steps

2. Professional Development Toolkit

Save yourself hours of work with this Instructional Coaches’ Professional Development Toolkit, including Keynote and PowerPoint presentations, ice-breakers, surveys, planners, agendas, handouts, activities, and more. Plus, this Instructional Coaches PD kit is editable! Provide PD in a snap to your teachers.

⭐ What's included in this Instructional Coaches Professional Development Toolkit?

The How-To Guide to PD: a 15-page guide to professional development that covers the following topics:

• Deciding where to start
• Making a PD plan
• Teaching adult learners
• Planning professional development
• Organizational tips
• Getting teachers to attend
• Tips for presenting: dos and don'ts
• PD checklist

Printable PD Tools for Coaches (22 pages)

• Classroom Sweep documents: 2 versions, editable included
• Printable PD Surveys (7 printable documents)
• Literacy Survey
• Math Survey
• Science Survey
• Balanced Literacy Survey
• Classroom Library Survey
• Post-training Survey
• Book Study Post-Survey

• Editable PD Surveys (7 editable documents)
• Training Customization Survey
• Training Follow-Up Survey
• PD Interest Follow-Up Survey
• Training Follow-Up Survey
• General content area survey
• How's It Going? PD Check-in
• Check-in Dots

• PD Planners
• PD Plan (long-term planning)
• Planning a Training Guide
• Following Up on a Training

• Agendas
• Planning Agenda (2 versions), editable included
• Training Agenda, editable included

Bank of Icebreaker Activities (10 different activities with a guide for each one)

• The Chain (idea only)
• Conversation Cubes (printable and editable versions included)
• That's the Best/That's the Worst (printable only)
• That's Me! (printable only)
• You Are Valued (printable only)
• The Movie of My Life (printable only)
• Find Someone Who...Smartphone Edition (printable and editable versions included)
• Selfie Scavenger Hunt (3 printable and 3 editable versions included)
• The Word Pyramid Game (6 ready-made versions, plus one editable version)
• 51 Would You Rather? slides: perfect for live sessions and virtual sessions

Handouts and Activities for processing and responding (19 pages)

• 2-page idea guide
• Stop Light Response
• Shape Up Your Thinking (2 versions)
• 3-2-1 Response (2 versions)
• Narrow it Down
• A Change in My Thinking
• Put it into Practice
• Pieces of the Puzzle
• The Web
• Brainstorming Vocabulary
• I Do This When...
• KWL
• Video Guide (2 versions)
• Exit Tickets
• Activation Guides (2 editable versions only)

13 Editable Presentation Templates & Activity Slides

• How to edit the templates guide
• 13 different themes of editable presentations in Keynote and PowerPoint
• Blue Yellow Floral
• Bright Light Bulbs
• Bunting and Stripes
• Cactus
• Gold Confetti
• Green Dots and Pencils
• Math Buddies
• Pineapple
• Reading Buddies
• Science Buddies
• Scribble Dots
• Technology Buddies
• Writing Buddies

8 Pre-formatted Activity Slides to drag and drop into your presentation in each presentation theme

• Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down
• Apply It!
• Partner Talk
• Card Sort
• Visual Representation Poster
• Team Talk
• Graffiti
• Vocabulary Builder

3. PLC Toolkit

Everything instructional coaches and administrators need to establish purposeful, effective PLCs. Get feedback from your teachers, look at student work, dig into data and make plans, create assessments, solve problems, plan together, engage in meaningful conversations, and so much more!

Included in this resource...

Setting up your PLCs

• Reflective questions
• Our dream PLC vision guide
• PLC logistics plan
• PLC preparation plan
• PLC start-up survey (also available as a Google Form)
• PLC check-in survey (also available as a Google Form)
• PLC record (also available as a Google Form)
• Roles planning sheet
• Roles guide
• Norms planner

Forms for learning together

• Ways we can learn together chart
• Possible norms for learning together
• Norms planner
• Learning PLC meeting Agenda: exploring a new strategy
• Learning Choice Board sample
• Learning Choice Board: editable pd
• Learning PLC meeting Agenda: unpacking the standards
• Unpacking the standard organizer
• Learning PLC meeting Agenda: article, book study, or video study
• Shape up your thinking response
• Book study meeting plan
• Video guide
• Learning PLC meeting Agenda: modeled lesson
• Learning PLC meeting Agenda: colleague visits
• Colleague note taker, 2 pages

Forms for looking at student work together

• Reasons PLCs look at work together
• Possible student work review norms
• Norm planner
• Student work review PLC meeting agenda
• Student work review guide, 2 versions

Forms for creating assessments

• Reasons PLCs build assessments together
• Possible norms for assessment PLCs
• Norm planner
• Types of questions
• Assessment PLC meeting agenda
• Assessment planner & sample
• Assessment administration plan

Forms for solving problems together

• Types of problems we can discuss
• Possible norms for problem solving
• Norm planner
• Problem solving PLC meeting agenda
• Problem solving question mat (2 versions)
• Problem of practice mat
• Next steps mat

Forms for data PLCs

• Possible PLC norms
• Norms planner
• Data PLC meeting agenda
• Data trackers (4 versions)
• Reflecting on data bookmarks
• Data review guide (2 versions)
• Next steps planner

Forms for planning together

• Possible PLC norms
• Norms planner
• Collaborative planning PLC meeting agenda
• Planner template (2 pages)
• Planning brainstorming guide
• Lesson plan template

PLC Discussion Dice

Trying to get teachers to talk during PLC and Professional Development? These discussion dice will do the trick! Each dice has six thought-provoking sentence starters for teachers to use to respond to learning, data, observations, reflections, and other teacher discussions! Perfect for instructional coaches or administrators.

The Teacher Discussion Dice for PLC and PD include...

• 12 different printable dice in color and black and white versions
• an idea sheet to help you figure out how to use the dice with your teachers
• an editable dice cube - use Adobe Reader to fill in your own sentence starters

Dice Topics Include:

• Data Dig Dice
• Planning Dice
• Learning Dice
• Reflection Dice
• Reflection Dice 2
• Lesson Observation Dice
• Planning for Student Discussion Dice
• Parent Communication Dice
• School Systems Dice
• Intervention Dice
• Looking at Student Work Samples Dice
• Checking In Dice

Use them during a PLC to encourage discussion, after a learning opportunity to help teachers process their new learning, or at the beginning of a planning meeting or session to help teachers reflect on their classrooms and think about next steps for learning.

PLC PD Video & Handout

Conduct purposeful PLCs with your teachers with this Instructional Coaching Professional Development Video!

In this video, Purposeful PLCs: In-person and Virtual, you will learn about...

• The purpose of PLCs (what they are and what they aren't)
• What to do before, during, and after PLC to create best outcomes
• How to prepare your PLCs for maximum effectiveness
• How to use accountability roles during PLC
• What a Planning PLC is
• What a Learning PLC is
• What a Data PLC is
• How to create accountability and follow-through
• Which tools will be especially helpful to get started

This video comes with an 10-page handout that includes...

• Structured Notetakers
• The 7 Parts of a PLC
• Tech Tools for Virtual PLC Engagement
• Data PLC Bookmarks
• Data PLC Organizer
• Data PLC: Planning for Next Steps

4. Classroom Observation forms for Instructional Coaching

Simplify your coaching cycles with these forms and slide show! This resource includes forms, templates, and everything you need to get into classrooms, work with teachers, and document your coaching work! With these printable and editable tools, you will...

• introduce your role as an instructional coach - also works for literacy coaches!
• invite teachers to participate in a coaching cycle
• make a plan during your pre-conference
• reflect during post-conferences
• plan collaboratively
• model
• co-teach
• and so much more!

Do you feel overwhelmed and unsure when you think about starting coaching cycles? Conduct coaching cycles without the confusion with these coaching forms, guides, and documents!

You can easily document your work with teachers and conduct simple and practical coaching cycles including modeling, co-teaching, and observing with these coaching cycle templates.

Getting started is half the battle. These forms will help you start coaching cycles without the stress.

Editable forms make personalizing these documents easy!

This comprehensive toolkit includes...

Forms & Guides for Getting Started

• Tips for getting started
• Coaching Menu (editable)
• Classroom sweep forms (2 editable versions)
• Coaching request sign-up sheet (editable)
• Printable Coaching invitations (8 different styles, all editable!)

Forms for Making a Plan

• Tips for making a coaching plan
• Using the gradual release model with teachers
• Tips for every step of the way
• Coaching plan document (editable)
• Model classroom plan (editable)

Forms for Planning and Working Together

• Tips for planning and working with teachers
• Coaching cycle document (editable)
• Collaborative lesson plan format (2 editable versions)
• Roles during the lesson
• Observation guides: 7 different editable versions
• Debriefing sentence starters
• Asking reflective questions (2 pages)
• Plan to serve other teachers (editable)
• Walk-in support log (2 versions, editable)
• Thank you cards: thank you for having me in your classroom (8 versions)
• Thank you for sharing your classroom with a colleague (8 versions)

Coaching Roles Slide Show Presentation

This slide show is included in PowerPoint and Keynote: introduce the work you can do as an instructional coach. Includes editable slides so you can personalize it!

Coaches like you said...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Shawn G: "I am using this during my first year as an Instructional coach. My administrators are impressed with my organization using this product."

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stacey B: "I am new to Instructional Coaching this year. Although I absolutely LOVE this job, I desperately needed direction. The Coaching Cycle forms have helped me focus on specific elements of classroom teaching. I can foresee me using these forms for years to come!"

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sarah T.: "...These have been a great resource to help and direct the conversations I am having with my teachers. I have liked the organization of the forms a lot and appreciate the thought that went into which forms to create. Thank you so much for the creation of this resource."

Start coaching with confidence with these tools. They will help you along every step of the way of coaching teachers in their classrooms! Add to cart today and start practical coaching cycles tomorrow!

⭐ Licensing Terms

This product, once purchased, is licensed to be used by one coach. Additional coaches must purchase additional licenses. Thank you!

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