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Coaching Minute: Be Wholly Present
In this installment about norms for professional learning, Ruth Ayres shares the importance of setting a norm about presence.
Coaching Minute: The Importance of Norms
In this first installment about norms for professional learning, Ruth Ayres shares the reason why norms are important.
Guided Reading Debrief
Lora Bieghler debriefs with teacher Cheryl Miller after a guided reading lesson.
Coaching Minute: Keeping Writers in Motion
Ruth Ayres explains the importance of keeping writers in motion and ways in which instructional coaches can empower routines that will help students keep writing.
Coaching Minute: Supporting New Coaches
Literacy coach Jen Court explains how she supports coaches who are just beginning their work.
Coaching Minute: Reminders for Facilitating Coaching Conversation
Instructional coach Brian Sepe offers three reminders for facilitating a coaching conversation. Staying focused on action, clarity, and energy ensures that the conversation will be fruitful.
Coaching Minute: Listen Deeply
Instructional coach Staci Revere shares a key mantra to use when working with teachers, especially those who do not want to work with an instructional coach.
Have a Little Fun and Encourage Colleagues
Instructional coach Inga Omondi offers wise (and fun) advice on how to uplift and encourage colleagues.
Coaching and Demonstration Lessons
Literacy coaches Cathy Mere and Kelly Hoenie talk about the value and challenges of demonstration lessons.
Coaching Minute: Principals and the Change Process
Principal Lee Snider talks about the change process with teachers.
Teacher to Literacy Coach Transition
Literacy coaches Cathy Mere and Kelly Hoenie talk about the transition from being a teacher to becoming a coach.
Coaching Minute: Side by Side
Jen Court explains how she works side by side with teachers in this quick video.
Coaching Minute: Notes and Forms
Clare Landrigan and Tammy Mulligan explain the value of using the same notetaking forms teachers use with students as they coach teachers. The practice not only informs their coaching, but...
Coaching Minute: Better Communication
Literacy coach Jen Court explains how she works to support better communication about literacy instruction in her school.
Coaching Minute: Language of Reading
In this brief video, Cathy Mere talks with Andrea, a literacy coach and reading specialist, about the importance of common language during debrief sessions when talking about reading.
Coaching Minute: What About Reluctant Teachers?
Literacy coach Jen Court finds the best way to ease into a cycle with a reluctant teacher is to focus on the students and data. She also works to build...
Coaching Debrief: Interactive Read Aloud
Jen Court debriefs with second-grade teacher Logan about the interactive read aloud demonstration she just completed in his classroom, as well as how it fits into their instructional plans.
Kindergarten Small Group: Details in Writing
Clare Landrigan leads a demonstration small group on including details in writing. The demonstration includes a prebrief and debrief with the teacher.
Defining Standards Before a Demonstration Lesson
In this video from a third-grade lesson study, Jason DiCarlo works with teachers and specialists to define standards before a demonstration lesson.
Coaching Minute: New Coaches and Principals
Principal Lee Snider talks about the importance of being intentional in integrating new coaches into the school community.
Coaching Minute: Good Communication Between Coaches and Principals
Principal Lee Snider talks with literacy coach Lora Bieghler about developing a rapport when a coach is new to the building.
