Instructional Coaches and the Instructional Leadership Team

Instructional Coaches and the Instructional Leadership Team
Instructional Coaches and the Instructional Leadership Team: A Guide for School-Building Improvement

by Dean T Spaulding and Gail Smith

An instructional coach is an on-site professional developer who works directly with teachers and staff on how to use research-based strategies and techniques in their everyday classrooms. A successful instructional coach plays many roles in a school community: public relations guru, communicator extraordinaire, master organizer and expert educator. However, an instructional coach cannot succeed alone: the school community itself plays a vital role in the impact an instructional coach can have on a school building.

This book provides a framework for creating a school environment that promotes collaboration between school principal, staff, and the instructional coach. The authors provide a collaboration toolbox for the instructional leadership team, including:

- Surveys for ICs to use to gather feedback from teachers and staff in order to plan needed professional development
- Classroom observational protocols to help guide ICs during classroom observations
- Data collection instruments to use when working with teachers to collect data for action research projects to improve practice
- Templates and graphic organizers for ICs to plan busy days and weeks, and to organize information from various stakeholders
- Templates for helping ICs conduct reviews of literature and research on effective, scientifically based instructional practices
- Numerous cases based on extensive research Self-study and group activities.
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