Instructional coaching works best when it is normalized as part of everyday professional life, not positioned as a corrective ...

As educators, we often center our attention on students as learners—designing instruction to honor their varying identities, curiosities, strengths, and opportunities for growth. Yet, we rarely pause ...

Recently I visited with Cory Loveless, veteran math teacher at West Fargo High School who has also served as an instructional coach. Like many excellent teachers, Cory works hard at his craft, cares ...

“I’ve never done this work alone,” I thought as I looked around the high school gymnasium at the other instructional coaches and school leaders. We had been given a critical, quick-write prompt to ...

Academic instructional coaches serve as teachers for teachers. Their jobs are being cut and centralized as JCPS addresses its budget deficit.

In spite of new waves of technology, coaching approaches, and the rise of major academic initiatives like the Common Core State Standards, district spending on teacher professional development makes ...

The value of classroom technology depends on instructional intent: Devices should support strong pedagogy by expanding how students think, create, collaborate, and communicate — not replace effective ...

Districts hoping to expand the reach of their best teachers have moved them into coaching and master teaching positions in which they help colleagues improve their craft, as well as work with students ...

Toward the end of a math lesson on a sunny Friday in October, fourth-grade teacher D’Atra Howard and math instructional coach LaVeda Gray ducked out of the classroom to huddle. Howard’s students at ...