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:

Podcasts

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
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

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
29. Conversations With Coaches #2
30. Establishing Trust With Coaching Pre-Conferences
31. Coaches Working With PLCs
32. Conversations With Coaches #3
33. Simply Instructional Coaching with Nicole Turner
34. Hints for Instructional Coaches
35. Coaching Better Podcast Interviews Steve Barkley Pt. 1
36. Coaching Toward Goals
37. Coaching Better Podcast Interviews Steve Barkley Pt. 2
38. Getting Coaching Started
39. Teacher Autonomy & Coaching
40. De-Privatizing Teaching
41. The Coach and Principal Partnership — Part 1
42. Interview with The Bolt
43. Coach and Principal Partnership, Part 2
44. What Is the Barkley Coaching Model?
45. Keeping Our Focus on Student Learning Production Behaviors
46. Responsiveness in Coaching Assignments
47. Coach & Principal Partnership #3
48. Coaching Specific Teaching Skills
49. Instructional Coaching When Schools Are Closed
50. An Interview With Jenny Killion
51. A High School Coach & Principal Partnership
52. Coaches – Keeping the Focus on Learning & Teaming During School Building Closures
53. Teachers Creating Parent Support for Student Learning
54. Supporting Teachers Who Are Supporting Learners Dealing With Stress & Anxiety During School Closure
55. A Conversation on Assessment & Grading – Now & Then With Tom Schimmer

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