Instructional Coaching

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"Donald B. Bartalo reveals the experiences of school leaders and teachers who have discovered that meaningful school improvement does not necessarily come from the top-it comes from effective teaching and leaders who support it. Based on eight fundamental tenets, the text features a clear how-to process, success stories, and methods for bridging the teaching gap between the kinds of teaching needed for the 21st century and that which is found in most schools. Special features include: An interactive writing style that "coaches" educators Powerful "what to do" and "how to do it" tools Case illustrations and success stories Protocols for leading collaborative inquiry Journal reflections Leadership team activities"

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.

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"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!"

The instructional coach serves many roles in the educational system. These roles align with the roles of teacher leaders. Click here to read a great article that outlines the 10 roles of a teacher leader/instructional coach. This link will navigate you away from this page.

"Empowering questions can help coaches identify a teacher's agenda - what is important to the teacher. Empowering questions reveal a teacher's value system and help the coach understand what makes the teacher tick. Coaches develop credibility when their feedback continually relates to what an individual teacher values. "

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

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Burkins, J. & Ritchie, S. (2007). Coaches coaching coaches. Journal of Language and Literacy Education [On-line], 3(1), 32-47. Available: http://www.coe.uga.edu/jolle/2007_1/coaches.pdf

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.

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