A Coaching Endorsement Program Blossoms In Utah

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A coaching endorsement program blossoms in Utah

By Katie Dewey Hill and Janice Bradley

Categories: Coaching, Learning communities, System leadership

December 2024

How do we develop the capacity for every instructional coach to provide job-embedded professional learning for every teacher and student? This was the question facing the Utah State Board of Education in 2020. To address this, the state board’s quality instruction team designed and built a statewide networked professional learning system that includes instructional coaches, local education agencies, administrators, state leaders, and university partners. The quality instruction team had already developed a set of instructional coaching competencies, which defined the skills of an effective instructional coach. Educators could earn a new coaching endorsement, added to their educator license, based on demonstration of the competencies. But a key ingredient was missing: professional learning aligned to the competencies through which an educator could develop their skills and

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Katie Dewey Hill

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Katie Dewey Hill is the quality instruction coordinator at the Utah State Board of Education. She has worked as a classroom teacher, educational technology coach, and implementation specialist. She has a passion for leading the instructional coaching work in Utah and believes in doing whatever we can on a systems level to ‘make good teaching easier’.