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Viewing Guide: This viewing guide facilitates learning about the assessment approaches shown in the video, and provides support for trying new practices. It contains references, tools and templates, and should be used in conjunction with the viewing of the video. PDF Segment 1: Effective Questioning (7:59)

Walkthroughs- Learning Walks

"Coaching in Education: Getting Better Results for Students, Educators and Parents will support educational organizations to learn more about the current interest in coaching approaches within schools, colleges and universities. With chapters on coaching in elementary and secondary schools, with students, staff and parents, this book provides a sound basis for introducing coaching into any educational setting."

Discusses how the daily 5 fits into the common core

Discusses how the daily 5 fits into the common core

N.B.E. Man Part 1 in this series covered the background of our 1st year of school-wide interventions. Part 2 looked into the guidelines, management issues and lessons learned. Finally, in Part 3, the success of the reading interventions are laid out for review.

Instructional Coaching programs are usually initiated because a school/district/or outside agency has a DREAM or vision to add instructional coaching positions as a support system for the educators in the building. Coaching can be somewhat of an isolated position, especially if there are minimal coaches at a school.

I was unable to attend the School Administrators of Iowa Conference this year due to a broken foot. (A lovely souvenir from a day-trip to Put-In-The-Bay, Ohio.) In order to archive tweets I tried Storify. This was my first attempt with this format. I am not sure I used the process correctly.

Recently I spent a day with a district wide group of instructional coaches working on the school improvement plans for their buildings. We used a backwards plan beginning with the identification of specific student growth that they wanted as a goal. Then they identified what student actions/work would be needed to produce that learning.

Steve Barkley defines challenge coaching as a group of educators solving a problem or responding to an opportunity. Steve then describes how technical coaching, collegial coaching, and challenge coaching can be brought together. Steve also discusses how videotaping and coaching feedback of lessons can be used to create high value learning.