A good walk-through doesn't need pages of notes. This one-page snapshot covers learning goals, engagement, and a strength to share with the teacher. Simple. Fast. Useful. 🏫 #InstructionalCoach
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Applying a UDL Framework to the Coaching Cycle This three-phase approach to instructional coaching embraces the fact that educators are lifelong learners.

Learn how to cultivate and sustain successful coaching relationships that honor educators as learners through a 3-phase approach. 🌟

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Making Instructional Coaching Standard for Every Teacher Instructional coaching works best when it is normalized as part of everyday professional life, not positioned as a corrective measure.

What happens when school communities make instructional coaching a core feature of professional practice—not a limited intervention?

🌱 Trust grows.
🌟 Teachers are more willing to take risks and ask questions.
🏫 The school community cultivates a culture of improvement.

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Stages of the COOL coaching model: Reflect, Plan, Try

This 3-phase coaching model draws on the principles of Universal Design for Learning to honor educators as learners. ⭐

Learn more: edut.to/4upiVXy

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Making Instructional Coaching Standard for Every Teacher Instructional coaching works best when it is normalized as part of everyday professional life, not positioned as a corrective measure.

“In our experience, coaching works best when it is normalized as part of everyday professional life, not positioned as a corrective measure.”

Here’s how schools can reframe instructional coaching as collaborative problem-solving. 🤝

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Facilitating Instructional Rounds for New Staff Schools can use this protocol to reduce isolation, build trust, and make both veteran and new teachers feel valued.

Want professional development that reduces isolation, builds trust, and makes teachers feel valued?

The answer is instructional rounds. 🌟

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Facilitating Instructional Rounds for New Staff Schools can use this protocol to reduce isolation, build trust, and make both veteran and new teachers feel valued.

“A list of the ways they’re positively impacting students is one of the best things that can show up in a teacher’s inbox,” instructional coach Shannon McGrath says. 📥

Here are some practices that make for effective, engaging instructional rounds.

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3 Innovative Instructional Coaching Models These strategies bring teachers together and naturally generate evidence of coaching’s impact on student learning.

Seasoned instructional coaches Donna Spangler and Kim Cofino share their 3 favorite ways to measure coaching impact—with helpful downloadable templates! 🤩

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3 Innovative Instructional Coaching Models These strategies bring teachers together and naturally generate evidence of coaching’s impact on student learning.

Instructional coaches, looking to shake up your practice this year? Try these new models:

🤝 Collaborative Inquiry Circles
📖 Impact Story Sessions
🪞 Strategy Reflection Studios

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Forming a Literacy Task Force for Your District To ensure that literacy practices are aligned to research districtwide, you need a plan—and a team to help carry it out.

Before rushing to purchase the latest literacy resources for your district: pause. Then form a team to figure out the “why” and the “how.” 🔍📖

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Forming a Literacy Task Force for Your District To ensure that literacy practices are aligned to research districtwide, you need a plan—and a team to help carry it out.

The key to implementing evidence-based literacy practices? Making sure they’re actually evidence-based.

Enter the literacy task force. 📚

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When you’re fully present, people feel seen, supported, and safe to grow — and that’s where real development happens. #RiseUpAndLead drkimleadership.com #leadership #instructionalcoach #coachleadership #leadershipdevelopment #teacherleader #teacherleadership

How Instructional Coaches Can Balance Confidentiality and Accountability These strategies help instructional coaches build trust with teachers and provide transparency with administrators to maximize impact.

As an instructional coach, how do you maintain teacher trust while demonstrating results to leaders? Instructional coaching experts Kim Cofino and Donna Spangler explain how to prioritize trust *and* transparency.

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Free template download: How Instructional Coaches Can Balance Confidentiality and Accountability. 3 free downloadables!

Instructional coaches, these three free tools can help you balance trust with accountability: edut.to/49Wq8Xa

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🚀 End your coaching cycle strong!
Reflect, celebrate wins, and set measurable next steps—all in one concise, professional Space.
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It might feel faster to take over, but every time you do, you send a silent and maybe painfulmessage — I don’t believe you can handle it.
That’s not leadership. That’s CONTROL.
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https://cfp.sched.com/speaker/prlzK7ITMa Targeting K-12 Educators: K-12 teachers, coaches, and tech specialists: MACE is your platform! Share your best practices for classroom tech integration. The deadline for proposals is Nov 30. mace-ks.org #K12 #EdTech #InstructionalCoach 💻

Lead with clarity. Coach with purpose.

Join us and build strong partnerships, navigate challenges, and gain practical tools to support every teacher—and every learner. Starts this fall!

Click the link to register today! bit.ly/FA25-EIC

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I’ve been doing this work long enough to know two things: 1) the tools change fast, and 2) the questions we ask our teachers matter more. “What do you want students to do with this?” is still my favorite. It never gets old. #InstructionalCoach #TechIntegration #Leadership

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How to Change Up Intervention Groups When students in intervention groups progress at different rates, it’s important to reconfigure the groups so all students do appropriately challenging work.

Effective, manageable ways to reform intervention groups and achieve better outcomes for students! 👇

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How to Change Up Intervention Groups When students in intervention groups progress at different rates, it’s important to reconfigure the groups so all students do appropriately challenging work.

In intervention work, sometimes students need more intensive support or a change in intervention. Reading interventionist Elana Gordon shares some strategies to help you reconfigure intervention groups—without losing momentum. ⏩

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Timing is everything! Schedule your summer meeting with your principal for maximum impact.

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Communication is key! Discover the best ways to keep your principal updated on your progress.

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New Post to Support Summertime Coaching Conversations

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Please leave a comment sharing your "Go-to" questions for summertime administrator conversations.

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Are you an #InstructionalCoach at #ISTELive this week?

Please stop by my session at 11AM today to learn how to build a successful Coaching Department.

I'll be giving away copies of my new book #ImpactStandards thanks to our friends #GuardRailz
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New podcast alert! In this episode, we explore how leadership often begins in moments of uncertainty, the power of being seen before you see yourself, and why growth happens in the messy middle. drkimleadership.com #leadership #instructionalcoach pod.link/1812091590

Collaboration Tips to Help Instructional Coaches Maximize Their Impact Working with peers helps instructional coaches grow their repertoire of strategies, to the benefit of teachers and students.

Instructional coaches: Maximize your impact with these educator-tested strategies! 💥

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