Help Your Coaching Program Achieve Its Potential

COACHES NOTEBOOK

Help your coaching program achieve its potential

Vol. 41, No. 5

While coaching programs have expanded and become a common approach to continuous learning for strengthening professional practice and student success, their infrastructures still need work. For coaching to deeply transform practice and push through to results for students, school system leaders must build, remodel, and maintain a foundation that ensures coaching will succeed. In the new edition of our book Coaching Matters (Learning Forward, 2020), Chris Bryan, Heather Clifton, and I explore the elements that ensure coaching is successful. Extending the framework we presented in the first edition, we explain how school and system leaders can build, remodel, and evaluate their coaching programs based on a set of critical elements. Taken together, these elements serve as the scaffold that any leader can use, whether implementing

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Joellen Killion

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Joellen Killion is a senior advisor to Learning Forward and a sought-after speaker and facilitator who is an expert in linking professional learning and student learning. She has extensive experience in planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of high-quality, standards-based professional learning at the school, system, and state/provincial levels. She is the author of many books including Assessing Impact, Coaching Matters, Taking the Lead, and The Feedback Process. Her latest evaluation articles for The Learning Professional are “7 reasons to evaluate professional learning” and “Is your professional learning working? 8 steps to find out.”