In Professional Learning For Coaches, One Size Doesn’t Fit All

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In professional learning for coaches, one size doesn’t fit all

By Kathryn Murrow and Betsy Leis

Categories: Career pathways, Coaching, Learning systems/planning, Personalization

April 2022

Although instructional coaches are deeply committed to continuous improvement, they rarely have access to professional learning themselves. Rarer still is differentiated professional learning that meets coaches where they are in their careers and their professional growth. In Florida’s Orange County Public Schools, we recognized that, just as we accentuate the importance of differentiated instruction for our students, we need to design professional learning to provide instructional coaches with strategies and structures tailored to their needs and levels of experience. We created differentiated professional learning that is grounded in the district’s teaching and learning framework. It uses scaffolds and accelerated learning principles to improve instructional support and is designed with adult and student social and emotional learning (SEL) needs in mind. At the same time, we

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