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What The Teacher Leader Needs
Administration’s support in eight areas can aid the school-based coach’s success.
5 key points to build a coaching program
A cross America today, hundreds of instructional coaches are being hired to improve professional practice in schools. Preliminary results (Knight, 2007) suggest there are reasons to be optimistic about this […]
Adding layers of support
Erin Scott has spent her 17-year teaching career in Ozark, Ala., a small city school system tucked in the southeast corner of the state, less than an hour’s drivefrom the […]
Web of support
To increase student achievement, schools and districts are hiring teachers as leaders to support peers in improving teaching and learning. Their roles are variously called coach, school-based staff developer, instructional […]
Three simple secrets of school-based coaching
Keep three lessons at the forefront to help as a school-based coach: Listen first; teach by example; be patient.
Right way to begin depends on where you are right now
Sally Oxenberry was asked to facilitate the leadership team that meets weekly at her middle school and to help develop a spirit of collaboration. The school staff is organized into teams […]
Nuts and bolts of a district improvement effort in Maryland centers on the staff developme
These teacher comments refer to the impact of the staff development teacher, the “teachers’ teacher” in each of the 199 schools in Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. The staff […]
Can educators close the achievement gap?
American schools have been given an impossible job, researcher Richard Rothstein asserts. The No Child Left Behind Act requires them to get students from all demographic groups to high academic […]
How to decide who will make the decision
Some groups may include individuals who all are “on the same page,” with similar philosophies, problem-solving approaches, and roles or power. More common, however, are groups made up of people […]
Leaders can ensure that all students have access to quality teaching
Deborah B. was one of the worst teachers I ever witnessed teaching. She began yelling at students from the moment they walked in the door. She threatened them and scowled […]
Professional development is union work: embedding the standards
On Oct. 30, 2001, the first weekend of a year-long series of statewide workshops designed to “Create a New Vision for Minnesota Staff Development,” two declarations about staff development challenged […]
Mirror, mirror, in the lab
Susan Herll and Liz Briggs huddle at a table in the center of a nearly empty classroom in a middle school in Colorado. The room is clearly unused for student […]
3 strategies for administrators
Principals and district administrators must do more than simply add staff developers to schools and hope for the best. How can education leaderssupport on-site staff developers? To sustain systemic conditions […]
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