Start the Year Strong with Student-Centered Coaching Designed to ensure a successful start to the school year, this guidebook provides strategies for coaches, principals, and district leaders to successfully launch a new year of Student-Centered Coaching. Organized into fifteen moves, this resource
Diane Sweeney gives principals and coaches concrete tools for designing coaching around student learning goals. Included are applications for various content areas and grade levels.
The authors present a practical vision of what it looks like to engage in student-centered coaching across a rich array of contexts.
Essential leadership moves for supporting instructional coaching in your school Strong leadership is essential in any successful instructional coaching effort. This action-oriented guide provides principals and district leaders with the background, practices, and tools required for leading coaching efforts that have a measurable impact on student and teacher learning. Filled with ideas that school leaders can easily apply, this book includes: Tools and techniques for preparing a school for coaching, launching a coaching culture, and supporting coaches Leadership moves and lessons from the field that provide strategies for building principal and coach partnerships Recommendations for coaches to use as they strive to increase their impact
"Student-Centered Coaching is a powerful model of professional learning that focuses on student outcomes. Unlike more traditional teacher-centered approaches that carry an implicit assumption of fixing broken teachers, student-centered coaches partner with teachers to design learning that is based on a specific objective for student learning. Teachers and coaches use data and student work to analyze progress and collaborate to make informed decisions about instruction that is differentiated and needs-based. By shifting coaching conversations from what the teacher is doing to how students are progressing in relation to a stated goal, coaching becomes both more respectful of teachers and results-based. Diane Sweeney's Student-Centered Coaching books have sold over 60,000 copies combined since the K-8 book was first published in 2010. The book series and related consulting services have appealed to coaches and administrators nationwide who appreciate Sweeney's emphasis on measurable students outcomes. Diane's work tackles the challenges of coaching across content areas, extending coaching practices to teams of teachers, using standards to coach toward specific goals, and embedding formative assessments into coaching conversations"--
Ideas and inspiration to keep student learning at the center of instructional coaching--no matter where it occurs The guidance in this book will ensure we continue to focus on deeply knowing our students, having a coherent and focused curriculum, and coaching from a place of formative assessment and evidence. Authors Diane Sweeney and Leanna Harris, whose best-selling books have influenced thousands of K-12 coaches, have written Student-Centered Coaching from a Distance to help coaches and teachers adapt. Each chapter includes coaching 'moves' that can be used in virtual, hybrid, and in person settings. These technology-focused moves are accompanied by language stems, note catchers, and other tools that provide structure and coherence to coaching conversations. Each chapter also provides specific moves that promote equity and work to remove many of the barriers that have been brought into clearer focus during the challenges of our times. Readers will find · coverage of working to close opportunity gaps · specialized coverage of co-teaching from a distance · a highly effective coaching approach tailored to the distance learning context
Cat quilter Jillian Hart and her trouble-making feline companions scratch out crime in small-town South Carolina in this purr-fect cosy mystery series. Jillian Hart and police chief Tom Stewart are enjoying peaceful, newly-wedded bliss in Mercy, South Carolina, until a woman is found wandering the streets one night. She's in her night clothes, disoriented and carrying a kitten in a tote bag. A search of the woman's house reveals many more cats, a maze of cardboard boxes - and a dead man.