As a coach, you’ve probably felt this tension: we want to honor teacher autonomy, but we also work within systems that sometimes narrow the ...

As an instructional coach, you’ve probably been there when a lesson falls apart. Things are moving along smoothly—students are engaged, the ...

One of the most powerful ways instructional coaches support teachers is through modeling. When we step into the classroom to demonstrate a p...

Modeling, the most supportive move in the GIR coaching model (see below) , offers the opportunity to demonstrate practices that the teacher ...

Recently, I was coaching a novice first-grade teacher, Peyton, whose phonics lesson I had just observed. The lesson had trailed off as stude...

What if two little words could lower defensiveness, increase cognitive flexibility, support experimentation, strengthen collaboration, and p...

You were hired as an instructional coach because you have solid knowledge of content and pedagogy, as well as a deep reservoir of classroom ...