Instructional Coaching Resources

Instructional coaching positions have been added to many school leadership teams as an effort to support teacher growth in order to enhance student learning. This professional development strategy facilitates change, improves teacher instruction, and helps to transform school culture. How coaches interact with school leadership and with teachers directly impacts their ability to increase student success rates.

Key Books:

1. Instructional Coaching With End in Mind
2. Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching
3. Questions for Life

Videos:

1. Questioning Skills in Coaching

    

2. Types of Coaching

    

3. Communication Skills for Coaches

    

4. A Culture of Coaching

    

5. Defining Instructional Coaching

    

6. Coaching with a Focus on Student Behavior

    

7. Elements of the Principal/Coach Partnership: Presenting the Coach’s Role to the Staff

    

8. Words of Coaches: What are important words for coaches to use?

    

9. What are the dual roles of teaching that coaches must address in their work?

    

Blogs:

1. Coaching Questions: Going Slow to Go Fast
2. Educator Learning for Student Learning: Coaching Impact
3. Dialogue in Coaching Conferences
4. Building a Coaching Culture
5. PLCs and Coaching for Teacher and Student Learning
6. Creating Trust for Coaching
7. Instructional Coaching and School Improvement Plans
8. Encouraging the Coaching Conversation
9. Value from Coaching and Collaboration
10. Coaching from Teachers’ Agendas
11. A Culture of Coaching (Part 2)
12. A Culture of Coaching (Part 1)
13. Matching Coaching Actions to Teachers’ Developmental Stages
14. Vulnerability and Team Building
15. Facilitating Conversations: Empowering Teams
16. Request Coaching on Your Words
17. Promoting Coachability
18. Coaches’ Listening Skills
19. Coaching: Athletes, Students, Teachers
20. Teaching & Coaching Student Effort
21. Promoting Coachability
22. The Work of Instructional Coaches
23. Teaching and Coaching Student Effort
24. Coaching Outstanding Teachers
25. Defining Instructional Coaching: It Matters
26. Guidelines for Administering Feedback for Students and Teachers
27. Coaching Performance, Development, and Transformation
28. Pre-Conferencing: A Critical Element of Effective Coaching
29. Increasing Perseverance By Translating Goals Into Behaviors
30. The Gift of Coaching
31. The Coaching Balance
32. Coaching Through Change
33. Instructional Coaches Working with Individual Teachers
34. Teaming or Franchising
35. Instructional Coaches Working with PLCs and Teaching Teams
36. Respecting Teachers’ Goals and Values

Podcasts:

1. Comfort with Discomfort
2. Importance of Collaborative Culture
3. Heavy Coaching
4. Evaluation or Coaching?
5. Coaching Questions: Going Slow to Go Fast
6. Everyone Deserves a Coach
7. Desired Learning Outcomes Driving Instructional Decisions
8. Instructional Coach & Principal as Partners
9. Coaching Teachers: the Unaware, the Starting, the Developing, & the Unwilling
10. Examining the Impact of Coaching
11. Promoting Coachability
12. An Interview with Karen Crouse
13. Choosing Your Words While Coaching
14. Instructional Coaches Creating a Culture for Coaching
15. The Definition and Purpose of Instructional Coaching
16. The Coach Approach to School Leadership
17. Coaches: Dealing With Resistance
18. Differentiating Coaching
19. Making the Most of Instructional Coaches
20. Reflecting on Scaffolding
21. Paraphrasing to Build Communication in Coaching
22. Jim Knight & the TLC Conference
23. Effective Communication Techniques Increase the Impact of Instructional Coaching
24. Coaching With a Solution-Focused Approach
25. Compliments, Praise & Approval
26. Joellen Killion’s Mental Models of Coaching
27. The Coaching Balance
28. Conversations With Coaches #1

Other Resources:

1. Instructional Coach and Principal Partnership Webinar with Steve Barkley

Professional Development and Graduate Courses:

1. Instructional Coaching Micro-Credential
2. Instructional Coaching Online Graduate Class Through PLS Classes