West Branch Coaching Cycle

Lindsay Seydel

PK-6 Reading Coach

What you might see:

  • Observing classrooms

  • Designing appropriate instructional strategies

  • Supporting universal core

  • Analyzing literacy data/student work

  • Supporting grade-level PLCs

  • Co-teaching

  • Facilitating PD

  • Assisting with intervention design

Dana Williams

PK-12 Personalized Learning/STEAM Integration Coach

What you might see:

  • Classroom observations

  • Small group, individual collaboration

  • Designing appropriate instructional strategies

  • Co-teaching

  • Facilitating PD

  • Guiding implementation of STEAM related programming and technology

  • Integration and facilitation of Project-Based Learning

Jessica Taylor

5-12 Assessment/Data Coach

What you might see

  • Classroom observations

  • Small group, individual collaboration

  • Analysis of student learning (classroom & standardized)

  • Designing appropriate instructional strategies

  • Co-teaching

  • Facilitating PD

What Instructional Coaching Is and Is Not

Instructional coaching is...

  • highly individualized, job-embedded professional development

  • founded on trust

  • observation based

  • developmental and growth- oriented

  • supportive

  • confidential

  • differentiated and based on professional goals and individual growth

Instructional coaching is not...

  • evaluative

  • a means of comparing teachers' skill or efficacy levels

  • about 'fixing someone'

New Teacher Center 2015