Justifying the Coaching Process
These articles stood out to us as excellent sources of inspiration. Each is "bite-sized" enough to use to initiate a staff discussion
- "Personal Best" by Atul Gawande. In this article for the New Yorker, Gawande, a surgeon, discusses how coaching can benefit all professionals.
- How Administrators Support Peer Coaching by Robert J. Garmston. In this article for Educational Leadership, educator Robert J. Garmston provides an overview of coaching in a school context. You can see more of his work here.
- Collegial Coaching: The Art of Conversation by Angie Guererro and April Major. In this article for Unboxed, two High Tech High teachers discuss their experiences with coaching and the lessons they learned.
How-To Guides
These links provided interesting overviews of the coaching process
- Mentoring and Coaching Models: A PDF containing coaching ideas and considerations, developed as a result of the online course "Using Peer Coaching to Improve Instruction"
- Peer Coaching: An excellent PPT by Robert Garmston and Art Costa, training educators in Peer Coaching
- Put Me in, Coach!: A PPT by Mark Reardon explaining his approach to and advice for coaching. Mark is a big inspiration for our HTH model
Further Research
Below are reviews we wrote about articles and books that we encountered during our research. These links provide summaries, background information and what we found interesting and relevant to our research.
- Building School Based Teacher Learning Communities
- How Teachers Learn: Toward a More Liberal Teacher Education
- Improving Teacher Quality: The U.S. Teaching Force in Global Context
- Professional Practice Schools: Linking Teacher Education and School Reform
- The Facilitator's Book of Questions: Tools for Looking Together at Teacher and Student Work
- The Power of Protocols: An Educator's Guide to Better Practice
- Helping Teachers Learn: Principal Leadership for Adult Growth and Development
- Helping Teachers Teach Well: Transforming Professional Development
- Creating Teachers' Perceptual, Behavioral, and Attitudinal Change Using Professional Development Workshops
- Teacher Leadership Capacity-Building: Developing Democratically Accountable Leaders in Schools
- Changing the Tire on a Moving Bus: Barriers to the Development of a Professional Learning Community in a new Teacher-Led School
- Collegial Coaching: Teacher Acceptance of a Model
- Using Collegial Coaching and Reflection as Mechanisms for Changing School Culture
- The Evolution of Peer Coaching
- How Administrators Support Peer Coaching
- Enhancing Teacher Quality: Peer Coaching as a Professional Development Strategy
- Peer Coaching for Improvement of Teaching and Learning
- Peer Coaching: Partnerships for Professional Practitioners
- Collegial Coaching: SDC Knowledge Management Tool Kit
- Teaching and Learning from the Inside Out