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Helping teachers, administrators, and policymakers to understand the research on adult learning, teacher professional growth, and learning in community. Supporting teacher learning, creating environments and expectations for successful learning communities. Develop processes for collecting evidence and documenting effects of teacher learning.

Diving is like teaching, an individual sport. Yet, a diver's overall performance counts toward the swim team's ranking, just as a teacher's success with his or her classroom influences the success of a school. A coach works to help each team member reach a personal best. Instructional Coaches (IC) serve as on-site professional developers.

NEW! Radical Learners Blog by Jim Knight! Read the Blog: Instructional Coaching Institute, Level 1 August 8-10, 2011 October 3-5, 2011More info... Instructional Coaching Institute, Level 2 August 11-13, 2011 October 6-8, 2011More info... Instructional Coaching Conference October 10-12, 2011More info...

Change is complicated... Instructional coaches can help alleviate some of the burden of change. Instructional coaches are on-site professional developers who teach educators how to use proven teaching methods.

Practical tools for K-12 literacy coaches, classroom teachers, and school leaders including study group guides, booklists, writing workshop advice, and professional development planners.

Instructional coaching, a research-based, job embedded approach to instructional intervention, provides the assistance and encouragement necessary to implement new programs that improve student learning. The product of more than a decade of study, this approach to professional development has been proven to help schools respond to the pressures of accountability and reform.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

Two days ago, The New Yorker Magazine published a lengthy and important article on "coaching" and featured the instructional coaching program at the Albemarle County School District in Virgina. Since that time, I've written two related posts (Now, This Is What I Call Professional Development!

Instructional coaches are on-site professional developers who teach educators how to use proven instructional methods. To be successful in this role, coaches must be skilled in a variety of roles, including public relations guru, communicator extraordinaire, master organizer and, of course, expert educator.

Steve Barkley's concept of "backwards planning" shifts the process of teaching practices, coaching, and professional staff development in significant and comprehensive ways. Steve's research suggests that teachers don't cause student achievement; students do, when armed with the right learning behaviors taught and modeled by others. From those behaviors, they become lifelong learners. Receive guidance and insights into specific coaching skills, questioning strategies, and ways to work with principals. The result ensures that teachers are fully supported in the highly complex and challenging world of education.