This week’s tip: Celebrate your Success and Plan Your Next Steps
Your Time Change Coach will be meeting with you soon to complete the annual SAM process performance rubric. This is done in an hour-long SAM Daily Meeting, facilitated by your coach, in April or the first two weeks of May.
Last year TimeTrack users gave the annual assessment session very high marks. The joy of combining celebration of success with plans for next steps was the most common comment.
Here are two comments from last year’s assessment:
The process is great. I like having a SAM and a coach to help us leverage TimeTrack. I am more intentional about having to think about things and planning ahead to meet the needs of the schools I serve. That reflection with the SAM is key! It is great to have that time to think about what I am doing. I want to thank my SAM! You can talk through things and get them planned out.
The daily meeting is critical to holding me accountable. The cadence of the daily meeting is absolutely essential to better outcomes for kids. It also helps us to track our progress by reviewing data. Leslie knows that helping me be accountable will keep me on track at not taking on tasks that are not mine to do, which would keep me from the important work of participating with teachers weekly in planning, maintaining my observation schedule, and planning feedback.
When you examine the rubric, you’ll see it starts with the basic elements of the SAM process: scheduling in advance, at/above goal, use of First Responders, use of time data and the SAM Daily Meeting. It then moves forward to consider the impact on teacher practice and student learning. One SAM shared what she learned last year during the assessment:
If we don’t do the SAM process basics, we don’t have the data to connect our work with improved teacher practice. The SAM Daily Meeting must go beyond scheduling at/above goal and follow-up sessions. I must use the data daily…share a chart of the work my principal has done with a teacher and ask if the teacher is getting better…and if not, what next?
You can access the rubrics by clicking the orange logo, upper left on your TimeTrack and selecting Written Tools for SAM teams.
Note: It is budget time in most schools and districts. Be sure to budget for your SAM services for the 2025-26 school year. You can request an invoice now by using this link: https://bit.ly/40GtA33
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