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Coaching Minute: Ask for Help
Curriculum director Inga Omondi advises leaders that the best thing for them to do is ask for help.
Coaching Minute: Keep a Meeting Journal
Curriculum director Inga Omondi spends a lot of time in meetings. To make connections, remember next steps, and stay organized, she keeps a journal with all of her meeting notes.
Coaching Minute: What Makes You Come Alive?
Howard Thurman said, "Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."...
Coaching Minute: Tough Meetings
Curriculum director Inga Omondi understands the tension that can build in meetings. She offers advice for instructional coaches on what to do after a tough meeting.
Coaching Minute: Coaching Groups of Teachers
Ruth Ayres offers a useful tip when planning your coaching calendar: Create groups of teachers.
Coaching Minute: Change Can Be Rewarding
Instructional coach Paula Fiscus shares the notion that change is a catalyst for growth. Although change can be difficult and challenging, it is also rewarding.
Coaching Minute: Encouraging Teacher Leaders
Instructional coach Jonathan Winslow shares how he intentionally uplifts teacher leaders. After a coaching cycle, he embeds a reflection that highlights the learning from the cycle that is then shared...
Coaching Minute: Taking Time to Plan
David Pittman encourages the importance of instructional coaches taking the time to plan.
Coaching Minute: Creating a Sign-Up for Coaching
Kate Mills and Tara Barnett streamline the sign-up system for working with a coach.
Give Yourself Time to Prepare
David Pittman encourages instructional coaches to take time to prepare for the day and then to reflect at the end of the day.
Stay Sharp with Professional Reading
Kate Mills and Tara Barnett share ways to stay sharp with professional reading.
Coaching Minute: Creating Conversations to Anchor Professional Relationships
Instructional coach Jen Court takes advantage of the early days of a school year to be present with classroom teachers and create conversations that begin to anchor meaningful professional relationships.
Coaching Minute: Keep the Focus on Students
Inga Omondi suggests keeping the focus on students in order to entice apprehensive teachers into a coaching relationship.
Coaching Minute: Navigating Tough Conversations
Instructional coach Holly Wenning shares advice for navigating tough conversations.
Coaching Minute: The Gift of Time
Instructional coach Mary Brower shares an idea to give the gift of time to teachers.
Coaching Minute: The Power of a Stopwatch
Ruth Ayres shares how timing parts of an observation gives unique and meaningful data for reflective conversations.
Coaching Minute: The Importance of Patience
Instructional coach Mary Brower reminds us of the importance of patience, especially with ourselves.
Coaching Minute: Supporting a Principal’s Vision
Holly Wenning attests to the importance of instructional coaches knowing and supporting a principal's vision. Holly is a secondary instructional coach.
Coaching Minute: Be Aware of How Your Presence Affects the Room
In this installment about norms for professional learning, Ruth Ayres shares the importance of being aware of how your presence affects the room.
Coaching Minute: Expect and Accept a Lack of Closure
In this installment about norms for professional learning, Ruth Ayres shares why it is important to expect and accept a lack of closure.
Coaching Minute: What’s Said Here Stays Here; What’s Learned Here Leaves Here
In this installment about norms for professional learning, Ruth Ayres shares the importance of having a place for instructional coaches to learn, as well as process their own situations. The...
