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

Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching

Questions for Life

Videos:

Blogs and Podcasts:

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

Blog Archive:

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
37. Early Feedback
38. Introducing Mentoring or Coaching
39. Hypothesis and Evidence: Words to Use In Professional Growth Plans
40. When Coaches Hear Resistance
41. Coaching and Trust
42. Guiding Instructional Coaching with a Principal Partnership
43. Teacher Autonomy and Coaching
44. A Mentoring and Coaching Culture
45. Building Developmental Relationships
46. Approaches to Difficult Conversations with Teachers for Instructional Coaches
47. How is Distance Coaching Different from in the Classroom Coaching? (Part 2)
48. How is Distance Coaching Different from in the Classroom Coaching? (Part 3)
49. A Time to Be Really Listening
50. Collaborating with Parents as Partners Supporting Learners
51. Today’s Leadership Requirement: Leading Teams That Solve Challenges
52. Collaborating with Parents as Partners Supporting Learners
53. What is the Barkley Coaching Model?
54. Coaching Classroom Management: Consistent and Flexible
55. Relationships and Expectations: Keys to Increasing Student Success
56. I Am Learning More About Personalization
57. How Does Intellectual Humility Impact Educator Reflection?
58. Purposeful School Leader Actions
59. Three Elements for the Application of the Art and Craft of Coaching
60. Guest Blog: Coaching with Humility by Sherry St. Clair
61. Coaching with Structure: The TO GROWTH Model
62. Learners Investing in Learning: The IKEA Effect