Instructional Coaching

Roles and Responsibilities of Title 1 Instructional Coaches

Collaboratively developed by Title 1 Coaches and updated for 2018-2019

Best Practices in Instructional Coaching

Describes the high impact practices of instructional coaches. Collaboratively developed by the ICA Literacy Coaches and ESL TOSAs in 2017-2018

Coaching Menu: Methods of Coaching

This menu is designed to provide examples of ways in which coaches might engage with adult learners. The purpose of the coaching support should determine the method and the possible groupings for support.

Feedback Principles

Feedback is a very specific kind of communication: it focuses on sharing with another person the impact of their behavior and its purpose is to help that person become more effective.

Coaching Questions and Sentence Stems to Support Open-Ended Dialogue

Questions and Stems for Coaching Conversations

By Jan Miller Burkins

Visible Learning: 250+ Influences on Student Achievement

By John Hattie

Hattie and His High Impact Strategies for Teachers

By The Australian Society for Evidence Based Teaching

Effect sizes and summaries of Hattie's top 10 teaching strategies.

#35 Coach Wants to Build Relationship With Principal

By Lindsay Deacon and Angela Harkness (2019)

A coach's guide to developing a better relationship with their principal.

Developing Principal/Coach Partnership Agreements

By Lindsay Deacon and Angela Harkness (2019)

Questions to guide the conversation between coach and principal.

Sixty Six Ways to Build Community at School

By Elena Aguila

From the Onward Workbook: Daily Activities to Cultivate Your Emotional Resilience and Thrive (2018)

Coaches Lead in Many Ways

By Joellen Killion

Coaches are leaders among their peers. As leaders, coaches have several key responsibilities.

Asset-Based Coaching: Focusing on Strengths

By Elena Aguilar

Asset-based coaching requires a mindset shift--from focusing on deficits to seeing potential.

The Coach and the Evaluator

By Bob Tschannen-Moran & Megan Tschannen-Moran

Evaluation and coaching can work at cross-purposes if schools blur the distinctions between them.

Two Approaches to Instructional Coaching for Student Achievement

Informed by Diane Sweeney

Coaches use both student-centered and teacher-centered methods to help teachers improve the decisions they make about their instruction.

Student Centered Coaching

By Diane Sweeney

Student-centered coaching focuses squarely on addressing students’ needs through teacher and coach dialogue, targeting coaching on student learning.

What Good Coaches Do

By Jim Knight

The way we interact with others makes or breaks most coaching relationships. When coaches and teachers interact equally as partners, good things happen.

Are You Coaching Heavy or Light?

By Joellen Killion

Coaching heavy requires that coaches move to the edge of or beyond their comfort zone and even their competence to encourage teachers to move beyond theirs as well.

Reprising Coaching Heavy and Coaching Light

By Joellen Killion

Coaching heavy means robustly engaging in the work of coaching with a laser-like focus on improving student learning.

It's About the Questions

By Ronald Bearwald

Effective coaching thrives not on quick fixes and ready answers, but on questioning and listening.

How Coaching Can Impact Teachers, Principals, and Students

By Elena Aguilar

Coaching can build will, skill, knowledge, and capacity because it can go where no other professional development has gone before.

What is Literacy Coaching?

By Cathy A. Toll

3 Steps to Great Coaching

By Jim Knight, et. al.

How Great Coaches Ask, Listen, and Empathize

By Ed Batista

Instructional Coaches: How do you evaluate your impact?

By Peter DeWitt

Collective Efficacy: How Educators' Beliefs Impact Student Learning

By Jenni Donohoo

Chapter 1 excerpt of the book giving a general overview of what collective efficacy is and why its important

Sources of Efficacy

Partnership Learning: Learning Structures

By Jim Knight

Excerpt that describes Learning Structures that support professional learning for adults.

Best Practices in Instructional Coaching

By Hanover Research

Created for the Iowa Area Education Agency as an overview of the best practices for instructional coaching across various approaches and models.

Leveraging Video for Learning

Center for Educational Policy Research

How to use video for self-analysis, feedback and coaching.

http://cepr.harvard.edu/files/cepr/files/1._leveraging_video_for_learning.pdf

Identify, Learn, Improve

Luminescent Leader Blog

Blog post describing Jim Knight's Impact Cycle

The Coach Approach to Giving and Receiving Feedback in Schools

By Peter DeWitt

From the Education Week blog Finding Common Ground

Why Our Feedback is Backfiring

By Peter DeWitt

From the Education Week blog Finding Common Ground

Who's That Teacher?

By Gary Waddell (2009)

Matrix that shows how to support teachers at different levels

What Teachers Gain From Deliberate Practice

By Robert Marzano

Deliberate practice involves more than just repetition; it requires activities that are designed to improve performance, challenge the learner, and provide feedback.

What Should a Coach Do the First Days on the Job?

By Jim Knight

Blog post and video to support new coaches launch the year.

Why Principals Must Support Coaches

By Jim Knight

Blog post and video to support the coach/principal relationship