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Coaches' leadership skills that communicate trust building will increase teacher vulnerability and therefore teacher growth.

"Welcome to the IU 12 Coaching Network Wiki! We will use this wiki to share and communicate resources and ideas! Feel free to join so you can add to the wiki too!"

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.

The Big Four Community Ning is a year round learning network to support Instructional Coaches, Classroom Teachers and Educational Leaders. Created by Kansas Coaching Project Sep 9, 2009 at 10:05pm. Last updated by Kansas Coaching Project Sep. 10, 2009. Added by Kansas Coaching Project

The Big Four Community Ning is a year round learning network to support Instructional Coaches, Classroom Teachers and Educational Leaders. Created by Kansas Coaching Project Sep 9, 2009 at 10:05pm. Last updated by Kansas Coaching Project Sep. 10, 2009. Added by Kansas Coaching Project

Please note that the Big Four Mini-Coaching Manuals are now located in The Big Four Community! This page contains material that will be available to download for free. Most of these files are in Adobe PDF format. To view the files, one will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader which is available for download from www.adobe.com.

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.

When classes resumed in the Ames Community School District on Thursday, the scene was not one of desks in tidy rows. Instead of presiding over the front of their classes, teachers were found mingling with students at various workstations. Some teachers were, in fact, huddled in groups talking to each other.

Cognitive CoachingSM is a process that supports individuals and organizations in becoming self-directed. Its mission is to produce self-directed persons with the cognitive capacity for excellence both independently and as members of a community.