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So, if you're an instructional coach, and this is your first year, congratulations. You've made it...at least a week. Around this time in ...

If more schools took the time for collaborative planning rather than top-down PD, we'd be in a better place.

I'm not embarrassed to say that one of the main reasons teaching first perked my interest was the office supplies. I remember sitti...

The coaching cycle. We hear about it all of the time. It's a best-practice approach to working with individual teachers, honoring that th...

Category: Setting Up Coach Office - Coaching for Growth

The authors of The Coach Approach provide insight into their favorite technology tools for instructional coaches and best practices for school coaching.

6 Must-Have Organizational Systems for Instructional Coaching- lots of ideas for staying organized! Buzzing with Ms. B

As an instructional coach, there are certain items that can make supporting teachers easier. Each of the items shared here are highly recommended by myself as a teacher leader working in multiple buildings across a large district. Grab a binder and fill it with essentials like your standards, pacing guide, and teacher performance rubrics. Below…

Buzzing with Ms. B: Visiting Classrooms: The Why and the How - If you're a new instructional coach, or new to a campus, or you have new teachers, or for a whole slew of reasons, you probably have a lot of questions. The most important question to you

This year I had the amazing opportunity--thanks to an extremely supportive administration team--to be a part-time instructional coach in the high school where I've taught for 9 of my 12 years. It was an exciting and enlightening year, to be sure. As much as I struggled, I feel so lucky to have been given this…