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Instructional coaches, who work closely with classroom teachers to improve their practice, are an important source of school leadership, but teachers often don't know how to capitalize on this relatively new position in education.
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If coaches approach teachers collaboratively and with set relationship parameters, present technological changes as support for existing lessons, and use their position and skills to advocate for teachers' needs, they can establish themselves as a strong resource for educational innovation.
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They should also clearly define the distinction between coaching and supervising.
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Furthermore, because instructional coaches work closely with building administrators, they can serve teachers as liaisons to administration. If teachers feel uncomfortable bringing issues, such as scheduling changes, directly to administrators, they can filter such problems through the instructional coach.
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Resistance to change presents a daunting problem in successful implementation of programs and the educational growth of students
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Because technology is an ever-changing medium, busy teachers cannot be on top of its innovations. By showing veteran teachers how a new website, educational app, or other technology can enhance an existing lesson, coaches can start a professional dialogue about innovation in a nonthreatening way. Once the strong-minded teacher sees the benefits that technology can bring to their lessons, the barr
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Today's classrooms are driven by data, but teachers often lack the time and resources to thoroughly analyze data and identify areas of need.
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Instructional coaches have the time, resources, and ability to look at the big picture in identifying the changes needed to make all students successful.
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Creating a culture of coaching - 2 views

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Coaching cycle and coaching continuum - 2 views

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Coaching for Teaching and Learning: a practical guide for schools - 3 views

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ETO's Way of Work Instructional Coaching Essentials - 2 views

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Instructional Coaching Group - 0 views

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What is a Teaching and Learning Coach? - 2 views

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How Coaching Can Impact Teachers, Principals, and Students | Edutopia - 1 views

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Fortunately, there is a growing body of research indicating that coaching can help create the conditions necessary for instructional practices to change and student outcomes to improve.
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Coaching allows teachers to apply their learning more deeply, frequently, and consistently than teachers working alone.
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effective embedded professional learning promotes positive cultural change
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Coaching was also linked to teachers' increase in using data to inform practice
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The likelihood of using new learning and sharing responsibility rises when colleagues, guided by a coach, work together and hold each other accountable for improved teaching and learning.
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An essential feature of coaching is that it uses the relationships between coaches, principals, and teachers to create the conversation that leads to behavioral, pedagogical, and content knowledge change.
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smenegh Meneghini on 25 May 14

The following is an excerpt from the book, The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation. It offers a coaching framework and dozens of tools which can used by a range of educators. The following is from chapter one. What Can Coaching Do for a School?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The following is an excerpt from the book, The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation. It offers a coaching framework and dozens of tools which can used by a range of educators. The following is from chapter one. What Can Coaching Do for a School?</div>

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