Instructional Coaching

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At the 2010 Instructional Coaching Conference there were two panel discussions. Jim Knight, Steve Barkley and Michael Fullan's panel discussion was titled, "Coaches as Leaders of Change."

Playing For Change | Song Around the World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4880PJnO2E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhbqIJZ8wCM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLxVH11MP8A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5wDGqcbj8M I have started a new blog, Radical Learners. In order to focus on getting it up and running, I am going to pause my writing on this blog for a short while.

NEW! Radical Learners Blog by Jim Knight! Read the Blog: Instructional Coaching Institute, Level 1 August 8-10, 2011 October 3-5, 2011More info... Instructional Coaching Institute, Level 2 August 11-13, 2011 October 6-8, 2011More info... Instructional Coaching Conference October 10-12, 2011More info...

Change is complicated... Instructional coaches can help alleviate some of the burden of change. Instructional coaches are on-site professional developers who teach educators how to use proven teaching methods.

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Get connected to the best resources for The Big Four Questions help people to think; statements invite challenge. Your role as a coach is to help people think things through for themselves. Effective question... Added by Kansas Coaching Project

Instructional coaching works, or rather, it can work when conditions are right. Perhaps because some principals and district leaders have seen the impact that an effective coach can have, a handful of coaching positions still exist in this era of extreme budget cuts.

No! You don't have a new class pet, but you do have a few new resources! As we have been preparing to implement instruction of the new ELA Kentucky Core Academic Standards, we have noticed some gaps between what we previously taught and what will now be taught.

Great video! I followed the link at the end of the video to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills website and found some great gems there.The image that was the most interesting was this one: We are doing a lot of work in our province and division around figuring out "supports and services" for students as part of this movement towards a more inclusive education system. I thought the pools around the bottom of the rainbow summed up really nicely the supports and services that we need to provide for all students in our schools. I feel like an image like this gets me a bit closer to figuring out what inclusive education means to me.

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.

Leadership for Coaching takes the viewer inside five PAHSCI high schools where school-based and district-based leaders share how they have created and sustained high quality instructional coaching in their schools. This video shows 5 high school teachers and their coaches using the Before/During/After (BDA) instructional coaching model.

Diving is like teaching, an individual sport. Yet, a diver's overall performance counts toward the swim team's ranking, just as a teacher's success with his or her classroom influences the success of a school. A coach works to help each team member reach a personal best. Instructional Coaches (IC) serve as on-site professional developers.

"Realizing a vision for literacy coaching"

Get connected to the best resources for The Big Four Incredible demonstration of leadership, solidarity, and compassion

Practical tools for K-12 literacy coaches, classroom teachers, and school leaders including study group guides, booklists, writing workshop advice, and professional development planners.

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.

Whether I am introducing myself to someone new at the ballfield or at church, I always say that I am an instructional coach at Chets Creek Elementary. Most times I am met with blank stares. The courageous ones ask, "What is that?" "Do you teach?"

This video was made by another school district and posted to Youtube.