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5 elements combine in a formula for coaching
Brenda Black-Morrison is acoach, but not in football, basketball, or soccer. She is a science coach at a rural elementaryschool in Pacolet, S.C. As science coach, she spends her days moving from class..
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 abou..
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 borders of Georgia and Flor..
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 de..
Three simple secrets of school-based coaching
Written on a sticky note stuck to the edge of my laptop are three phrases: Listen first; teach by example; be patient. These are three things I’ve learned as a school-based literacy coach. My notes..
Coaches’ voices bring 6 lessons to light
In 1996, the Kansas City (Kan.) Public Schools, a largely poor, urban system, was facing a crisis. Graduation rates hovered around 50%. Students across the grades were behind in reading. Talk at loca..
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 co..
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 instruction. Tables are pushed against a w..
