Instructional coach room

As an instructional coach, there are certain items that can make supporting teachers easier. Each of the items shared here are highly recommended by myself as a teacher leader working in multiple buildings across a large district. Grab a binder and fill it with essentials like your standards, pacing guide, and teacher performance rubrics. Below…

Take a look inside my office as a PreK-5 literacy coach! Get a free science of reading bulletin board to use in your own literacy coach office, too!

One of the things you'll want to do right away as a new instructional coach is to set up your room! Read about the way I've organized the spaces in my room and what they're used for in my daily coaching.

So, if you're an instructional coach, and this is your first year, congratulations. You've made it...at least a week. Around this time in ...

Need help setting up your instructional coaching office? On this episode of the Coaching Podcast, I share eight different spaces that can be useful to get the job done! When choosing your instructional coaching office set up it’s best for you to consider your role and responsibilities. You want your instructional coaching room to be functional for the specific work you will be doing with the teachers. Click to listen as I give my best tips including making a list and map before you start.

This year I had the amazing opportunity--thanks to an extremely supportive administration team--to be a part-time instructional coach in the high school where I've taught for 9 of my 12 years. It was an exciting and enlightening year, to be sure. As much as I struggled, I feel so lucky to have been given this…

A big part of being an effective instructional coach is using data driven information to help your help teachers do more for their students. While data can be your best friend in the classroom, it can be hard to know exactly what kind of data you need to be tracking. Between teachers and students, there is so much to observe. In addition to knowing what to track, it can be difficult to find a way to track your data effectively. So how can we ensure we are tracking the right data?

Last year I had my first go at setting up a professional development room for teachers. It turned out to be an enjoyable space for teachers to work and learn in and has since been lovingly named the PD Pad. Given a new fire code put in place by the district (only 20% of walls […]

If more schools took the time for collaborative planning rather than top-down PD, we'd be in a better place.

If you're not visiting classrooms and providing feedback as an instructional coach, how do you know if your coaching support is hitting the mark? Whether you're conducting classroom visits as part of the coaching cycle or not, these tips will help you be ready to schedule your visits, know what you're looking at, and provide purposeful feedback to teachers. Make today the day you really understand what's going on at your school! #instructionalcoach #schoolleadership