Getting Instructional Coaching Off on the Right Foot As a new or returning instructional coach, the start of a school year brings a wave of excitement, and it’s the perfect opportunity to amplify that energy with your coaching support. Launching your coaching work isn’t a one-time checklist item; it’s a continuous process that you’ll revisit …
Written by: Dr. Amanda Brueggeman Author of: Student-Centered Mentoring (Corwin, 2022) What is a successful lesson? Visualize a lesson. The timing was perfect and the delivery of content was exact. For new teachers, this is a common perspective of a perfect lesson. A different perspective is that the lesson went in different directions than was …
Written by Amanda Brueggeman with Diane Sweeney Since my coaching has shifted online, I’ve been grappling with how to continue using the moves for Student-Centered Coaching. As a literacy coach in two elementary schools, my first hurdle was to help teachers get distance learning up and running. Next, came questions about how I could continue …