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:

Instructional Coaching With End in Mind

Questions for Life
Videos:
Questioning Skills in Coaching
Communication Skills for Coaches
Defining Instructional Coaching
Elements of the Principal/Coach Partnership: Presenting the Coach’s Role to the Staff
What are the dual roles of teaching that coaches must address in their work?
Types of Coaching
A Culture of Coaching
Coaching with a Focus on Student Behavior
Words of Coaches: What are important words for coaches to use?
Podcasts
Blogs:
- Coaching Questions: Going Slow to Go Fast
- Educator Learning for Student Learning: Coaching Impact
- Dialogue in Coaching Conferences
- Building a Coaching Culture
- PLCs and Coaching for Teacher and Student Learning
- Creating Trust for Coaching
- Instructional Coaching and School Improvement Plans
- Encouraging the Coaching Conversation
- Value from Coaching and Collaboration
- Coaching from Teachers’ Agendas
- A Culture of Coaching (Part 2)
- A Culture of Coaching (Part 1)
- Matching Coaching Actions to Teachers’ Developmental Stages
- Vulnerability and Team Building
- Facilitating Conversations: Empowering Teams
- Request Coaching on Your Words
- Promoting Coachability
- Coaches’ Listening Skills
- Coaching: Athletes, Students, Teachers
- Teaching & Coaching Student Effort
- Promoting Coachability
- The Work of Instructional Coaches
- Teaching and Coaching Student Effort
- Coaching Outstanding Teachers
- Defining Instructional Coaching: It Matters
- Guidelines for Administering Feedback for Students and Teachers
- Coaching Performance, Development, and Transformation
- Pre-Conferencing: A Critical Element of Effective Coaching
- Increasing Perseverance By Translating Goals Into Behaviors
- The Gift of Coaching
- The Coaching Balance
- Coaching Through Change
- Instructional Coaches Working with Individual Teachers
- Teaming or Franchising
- Instructional Coaches Working with PLCs and Teaching Teams
- Respecting Teachers’ Goals and Values
- Early Feedback
- Introducing Mentoring or Coaching
- Hypothesis and Evidence: Words to Use In Professional Growth Plans
- When Coaches Hear Resistance
- Coaching and Trust
- Guiding Instructional Coaching with a Principal Partnership
- Teacher Autonomy and Coaching
- A Mentoring and Coaching Culture
- Building Developmental Relationships
- Approaches to Difficult Conversations with Teachers for Instructional Coaches
- How is Distance Coaching Different from in the Classroom Coaching? (Part 2)
- How is Distance Coaching Different from in the Classroom Coaching? (Part 3)
- A Time to Be Really Listening
- Collaborating with Parents as Partners Supporting Learners
- Today’s Leadership Requirement: Leading Teams That Solve Challenges
- Collaborating with Parents as Partners Supporting Learners
- What is the Barkley Coaching Model?
- Coaching Classroom Management: Consistent and Flexible
- Relationships and Expectations: Keys to Increasing Student Success
- I Am Learning More About Personalization
- How Does Intellectual Humility Impact Educator Reflection?
- Purposeful School Leader Actions
- Three Elements for the Application of the Art and Craft of Coaching
- Guest Blog: Coaching with Humility by Sherry St. Clair
- Coaching with Structure: The TO GROWTH Model
- Learners Investing in Learning: The IKEA Effect
Podcasts:
- Comfort with Discomfort
- Importance of Collaborative Culture
- Heavy Coaching
- Evaluation or Coaching?
- Coaching Questions: Going Slow to Go Fast
- Everyone Deserves a Coach
- Desired Learning Outcomes Driving Instructional Decisions
- Instructional Coach & Principal as Partners
- Coaching Teachers: the Unaware, the Starting, the Developing, & the Unwilling
- Examining the Impact of Coaching
- Promoting Coachability
- An Interview with Karen Crouse
- Choosing Your Words While Coaching
- Instructional Coaches Creating a Culture for Coaching
- The Definition and Purpose of Instructional Coaching
- The Coach Approach to School Leadership
- Coaches: Dealing With Resistance
- Differentiating Coaching
- Making the Most of Instructional Coaches
- Reflecting on Scaffolding
- Paraphrasing to Build Communication in Coaching
- Jim Knight & the TLC Conference
- Effective Communication Techniques Increase the Impact of Instructional Coaching
- Coaching With a Solution-Focused Approach
- Compliments, Praise & Approval
- Joellen Killion’s Mental Models of Coaching
- The Coaching Balance
- Conversations With Coaches #1
- Conversations With Coaches #2
- Establishing Trust With Coaching Pre-Conferences
- Coaches Working With PLCs
- Conversations With Coaches #3
- Simply Instructional Coaching with Nicole Turner
- Hints for Instructional Coaches
- Coaching Better Podcast Interviews Steve Barkley Pt. 1
- Coaching Toward Goals
- Coaching Better Podcast Interviews Steve Barkley Pt. 2
- Getting Coaching Started
- Teacher Autonomy & Coaching
- De-Privatizing Teaching
- The Coach and Principal Partnership — Part 1
- Interview with The Bolt
- Coach and Principal Partnership, Part 2
- What Is the Barkley Coaching Model?
- Keeping Our Focus on Student Learning Production Behaviors
- Responsiveness in Coaching Assignments
- Coach & Principal Partnership #3
- Coaching Specific Teaching Skills
- Instructional Coaching When Schools Are Closed
- An Interview With Jenny Killion
- A High School Coach & Principal Partnership
- Coaches – Keeping the Focus on Learning & Teaming During School Building Closures
- Teachers Creating Parent Support for Student Learning
- Supporting Teachers Who Are Supporting Learners Dealing With Stress & Anxiety During School Closure
- A Conversation on Assessment & Grading – Now & Then With Tom Schimmer