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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'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.

Those of you who have followed me on this blog or have been in my workshops know that I have been waiting for the release of my new book, Instructional Coaching with the End in Mind. Well, the long awaited day (at least by me) has arrived.

"Instructional coach David Ginsburg illustrates a key coaching skill: helping teachers apply feedback from a specific context to their practice in general. This clip also illustrates the importance of providing students clear expectations and procedures."

Monday 6/25 5:30pm Calling All Coaches! Birds of a Feather Organizers: Candace, Gordon, Lynne, plus Les and Matt from Peer-Ed Tuesday 6/26 2-3pm Peer Coaching Panel: Meeting Teacher and Student Needs Matt from Peer-Ed will co-present with Mary Lou Ley (Wisconsin) and Tracy Watanabe (Arizona).

Discusses how the daily 5 fits into the common core

Discusses how the daily 5 fits into the common core

This is a group for instructional coaches, teacher mentors, and anyone in a teacher mentoring role. Members: 7 Latest Activity: May 16 Started by Carole Fuller. Last reply by Scott H Snyder May 16. 0 Likes I coach teachers of adult students, mostly teaching ESL but also Workforce content areas such as computer skills.

On Monday, I modeled lessons in some grade one and two classrooms. I will first talk about what we did in grade 2 and where we are going. The lesson that I modeled on Monday, in grade 2, is posted below on this blog. Student is recording her representation on a thinking sheet.

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.