Instructional Coaching - Steve Barkley

Fear Of Finding Out

A long-time colleague of mine sent me a LinkedIn post from Joshua Freedman, the CEO of 6 Seconds, with a note saying, “I’ll bet you can use this.” He was […]

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Broadening a Definition of Coaching

Michael Moody suggested that a strategy of broadening the definition of coaching could increase the effectiveness of instructional coaching. In an Educational Leadership article, titled “If Instructional Coaching Really Works, […]

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Listening and Supporting During Change

I am working with a group of teacher leaders who are in the midst of a school year coming toward a close while a number of changes are unfolding as […]

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Building Coachability

It’s rather clear to most people that in order to be an effective coach one needs an appropriate mindset for investing in the growth of others and a set of […]

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Growth Mindset and Intellectual Risk-taking in Coaching

A Kappan article, Growth mindset and intellectual risk-taking: Disentangling conflated concepts by Shelby Clark and Madora Soutter caused me to ponder how coaches promote growth mindset and intellectual risk-taking. Clark […]

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Coaching to Extend Professional Learning

In an earlier blog, I shared results from the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, Building Better Professional Learning: How to Strengthen Teacher Learning. It described the importance of effective professional […]

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