Chris Bryan
Senior Consultant and Professional Development Director
Chris Bryan is a senior consultant with Learning Forward. She is also the professional development director for the organization One to One Women Coaching Women. Bryan draws on deep instructional experience to serve her clients and learning partners—from classroom teacher, learning specialist, mentor, and staff developer, to instructional coach and coach of coaches. Currently, she coaches school executives, school-based coaches, and other leaders of organizations. Bryan assists with the design and delivery of teacher leadership programs, including the Learning Forward Coaches Academy where she is a co-developer of training modules. She co-designed and co-taught a School Leadership Institute as part of a School Leadership Academy in partnership with the school district and Learning Forward. She is past president of Learning Forward Colorado and has served on the Affiliate Leadership Committee. Bryan has been a featured author in Learning Forward Publications, including The Learning Professional and is a co-author of the book Coaching Matters.
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Coaching experienced educators: Critical support in changing contexts
Instructional coaching, especially for experienced educators, can offer support to adjust and adapt instruction and engage all students. Educators have greater or lesser levels of consciousness about their ability. Experienced educators are often consciously skilled, deliberate in their actions, or possibly unconsciously skilled, so experienced that most of their actions […] -
Coaching Matters, 2nd Edition
Does coaching matter? Yes! Coaching can increase teacher effectiveness and student learning. Successful coaching, however, doesn't happen just by hiring dynamic coaches. Successful coaching requires strong leadership, a clear focus and goals, essential resources, well-prepared staff, monitoring, and rigorous evaluations. Each chapter in this book describes an element of what […] -
Building blocks of collaboration
In our work with schools and districts across the country, we find there is a strong expectation that collaborative teams will improve student learning. Many districts also expect instructional coaches to be a part of these teams, although there is much confusion about what roles they should play within a […] -
Teacher-coach relationships: An excerpt from Coaching Matters
Teacher-coach relationships: An excerpt from Coaching Matters -
Online community becomes a pathway to teacher leadership
Kate’s perspective on teacher leadership before engaging in this online community is not that unusual. As a 5th-grade teacher, she’s focused on trying to do what is best for her students. However, she often sees her influence ending inside her classroom as she grapples daily with the intense complexity of […] -
Data dialogue
As teachers and leaders are well aware, schools and districts across the country have invested enormous amounts of money and energy in creating data management systems so that teachers can access information about their students’ performance. With these systems in place, the focus now needs to move to the structures […]
