Coaching
State Spotlight: How Texas Used Coaching to Impact Outcomes
Evaluation > Provider/Teacher Practices, Evidence-Based Practices, Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching
This state spotlight focuses on Texas’s implementation effort to improve teacher practice and student outcomes, by embedding and sustaining an effective coaching framework across the state. Of...
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State Spotlight
Effective Practices for Coaches
Evaluation > Data, Evidence-Based Practices > Evidence-Based Frameworks, Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching, Infrastructure Development > Local Education Agency Capacity
This module is the first in a series on coaching, a form of professional development for teachers who work in the kindergarten-12th grade setting. Module 1 addresses the four practices coaches can...
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Training Module
NCSI Effective Coaching: Fidelity Tool Worksheet
Evaluation > Provider/Teacher Practices, Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching, Infrastructure Development
This tool can be used to help measure the fidelity of coaching so that these data can be used by coaches and other educators to continuously improve upon how coaching occurs.
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Tools
NCSI Effective Coaching: Fidelity Tool Rubric
Evaluation > Provider/Teacher Practices, Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching, Infrastructure Development
Like any other educational innovation, the coaching of teachers must be used with fidelity in order to achieve its intended outcomes. Although fidelity is often thought of as adherence to the “key...
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Tools
Coaching in the State Systemic Improvement Plan: State and Local Educational Agency Considerations
Evidence-Based Practices, Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching, Infrastructure Development
This PowerPoint presentation, delivered by Sarah Arden and Jennifer Pierce of the National Center for Systemic Improvement (NCSI), addresses definitions of coaching, improvements to infrastructure...
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Presentation
Effective Coaching of Teachers: Completed Sample of the Fidelity Tool Worksheet
Evaluation > Provider/Teacher Practices, Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching, Infrastructure Development
This document serves as an example of how an observer can complete the Fidelity Tool Worksheet. It is intended to be used in conjunction with several other tools:
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Tools
Support Models: Matrix and Discussion Guide for K-12th Grade Systems
Evaluation > Data, Evidence-Based Practices, Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching, Infrastructure Development > State Education Agency Capacity, Policy > RDA, Stakeholder Engagement > Communication Strategies, Systems Alignment
The purpose of this resource is to help teams ensure that the implemented model of support (e.g., teacher coaching, systems coaching, training) leads to the desired outcomes (e.g., improved teacher...
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Tools
NCSI Effective Coaching Brief
Evaluation > Provider/Teacher Practices, Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching
This brief synthesizes research on coaching and offers a framework of effective coaching practices that should be central to the everyday work of coaches. This tool is intended to be used in...
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Brief
NCSI Implementation Guide for Effective Teacher Coaching
Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching
The purpose of this guide is to help practitioners systematically implement effective coaching practices. If coaching is designed to improve teaching practice and learning outcomes, it is important...
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Tools
Coaching System Change: What? Me!
Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching, Infrastructure Development, Policy > RDA
Presentation for the Improving Data, Improving Outcomes Conference. Leading systemic change requires systems thinking, organizational management, content knowledge, and the ability to keep calm and...
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Presentation
Effective Coaching Practices Infographic
Evaluation > Provider/Teacher Practices, Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching, Infrastructure Development > State Education Agency Capacity, Stakeholder Engagement
Research on professional development shows that teachers need long term support in order to improve their practice. Coaching can be one method for providing that support (Joyce & Showers, 2002;...
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Guidance
State Knowledge Utilization Spotlight: Maryland
Evidence-Based Practices, Improvement and Implementation Science > Coaching, Infrastructure Development > State Education Agency Capacity
Selecting and implementing evidence-based practices in mathematics is a critical step toward improving outcomes for students with disabilities. In order to increase the proficiency of students with...
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State Spotlight