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The Big Four is a set of tools that instructional coaches can use as they work with teachers. The tools fall into four main categories: classroom management, content planning, instruction, and assessment for learning. CRL Workout is an opportunity for researchers to share new projects and for audience members to share their own suggestions for those projects. Researchers have 20 minutes to present their ideas, and audience members have 40 minutes to provide praise, suggestions, and other insights.

"TED Talks Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share."

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.

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.

Have you ever found yourself challenged in the classroom -- wishing you could turn to someone immediately for a guiding hand or an encouraging word? As a practicing teacher, I did. In part, that's why I worked collaboratively to research and develop virtual coaching.

Educational Leadership is a magazine for educators by educators and includes among its readers principals, teachers, and administrators of every grade level and subject area. With a circulation of 175,000, EL is acknowledged throughout the world as an authoritative and readable forum of discussion about practices, policies, research, and trends affecting prekindergarten through higher education.

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.

The research is very specific: Well trained, proficient and effective teachers produce student learning.

Notes on Instructional Coaching Comments by Jim Knight, from the Kansas University Center for Research on Learning