This professional reference is designed for coaches, educator teams, and administrators in PreK-12th grade school settings. The defining features of the coaching framework are: alliance building, observation, modeling, and providing performance feedback. The authors discuss coaching for both improved educator practice and systems change, resulting in a synthesis of relevant research combined with hands on guidance and resources for planning, conducting, and evaluating the quality of coaching. The proposed book includes coaching scenarios with activities and case examples as the authors provide guidance about how, when, and why one should provide coaching.

Intro -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Downloads -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- Section I Introduction and Core Concepts -- Chapter 1 Making the Case for Coaching: From a Historical to a Contemporary View -- Key Questions -- Chapter Take-Aways -- Chapter Overview -- Making the Case for Coaching -- Coaching Across the Decades -- Bridging the Past to the Present: Implications for Today's Coach -- Summary -- Chapter 2 Coaching Goals, Activities, and Common Challenges -- Key Questions -- Chapter Take-Aways -- Chapter Overview -- Coaching Teachers and Teams: Goals and Typical Activities -- Coaching Individual Teachers and Teams of Educators: The Hybrid Role -- Getting Ready for Coaching Challenges -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Effective Coaching Practices: A Synthesis of Research -- Key Questions -- Chapter Take-Aways -- Chapter Overview -- Research on Coaching -- The Framework for Effective Coaching -- Summary -- Resources -- Chapter 4 Applying Systems-Level Change Principles to the Coaching Process -- Key Questions -- Chapter Take-Aways -- Chapter Overview -- The Big Picture: What Is a System and Why Does It Matter? -- Systems-Level Change Principles for Coaches -- Summary -- Resources -- Section II Strategies and Resources for More Effective Coaching -- Chapter 5 Using Alliance Strategies: Laying the Foundation for Effective Coaching -- Key Questions -- Chapter Take-Aways -- Chapter Overview -- Defining Alliance -- Alliance Strategies -- Summary -- Resources -- Chapter 6 Moving Beyond Alliance: Observing, Modeling, and Providing Performance Feedback -- Key Questions -- Chapter Take-Aways -- Chapter Overview -- Effective Coaching Practices in the Three-Phase Recursive Cycle -- Defining Effective Coaching Practices -- Tips for Enacting Coaching Practices -- Summary -- Resources. Chapter 7 Facing the Complexities of Change: Resources and Tools to Enhance Forward Movement -- Key Questions -- Chapter Take-Aways -- Chapter Overview -- The Challenge of Change -- The Importance of Readiness -- Measuring Readiness -- Strategies for Assisting Teachers and Teams Through Change -- Readiness Do's and Don'ts -- Summary -- Resources -- Chapter 8 Let's Make It Real: Applying Coaching to Critical Issues -- Key Questions -- Chapter Take-Aways -- Chapter Overview -- Coaching Pre-K Teachers -- Coaching Elementary Teachers -- Coaching Middle or High School Teachers -- Coaching Pre-K Implementation Teams -- Coaching Elementary Implementation Teams -- Coaching Middle or High School Implementation Teams -- Coaching in a Hybrid Role -- Summary -- Section III Implementing an Effective Coaching Framework -- Chapter 9 Coaching That Sticks: Resources and Tools -- Key Questions -- Chapter Take-Aways -- Chapter Overview -- Implementation Basics -- Resources for Taking a Strategic Approach to Implementing Coaching -- Summary -- Appendices -- Appendix A Reflecting on My Coaching Role -- Appendix B Categorizing Common Activities for Coaching Teachers -- Appendix C Planning for Enacting Critical Coaching Activities -- Appendix D Blank Template for Categorizing Systems Coaching Activities -- Appendix E Discussion Guide: Preparing for Coaching Barriers -- Appendix F Action Planning Tool -- Appendix G Connecting the Dots: Research, the Coaching Framework, and Your Coaching Role -- Appendix H Understanding the System -- Appendix I Conducting Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycles -- Appendix J Reflection Tool: What Do Systems-Level Principles Mean to Me? -- Appendix K Recommendations for Using Understanding the System With Teachers or Teams -- Appendix L Recommendations for Using Conducting Plan-Do-Study-Act Cycles With Teachers or Teams -- Appendix M Alliance Assessment. Appendix N Coaching Compact -- Appendix O Planning, Conducting, and Reflecting on Coaching Sessions: A Focus on Alliance -- Appendix P Discussion Guide: Alliance Scenarios -- Appendix Q Planning, Conducting, and Reflecting on Four Coaching Practices -- Appendix R Discussion Guide -- Appendix S Phase 1 Coaching Protocol: The Premeeting -- Appendix T Phase 2 Coaching Protocol: The In Class/Meeting Observation -- Appendix U Phase 3 Coaching Protocol: The Postmeeting -- Appendix V Readiness Measure -- Appendix W Steps for Using a Communication Protocol -- Appendix X Tips for Networking Teachers and Teams -- Appendix Y Motivational Interviewing for Change -- Appendix Z Connecting the Dots: Readiness for Change, the Coaching Framework, and Your Coaching Role -- Appendix AA Coaching Implementation Checklist -- Appendix AB Calculating the Fiscal Costs of Coaching -- Appendix AC Connecting the Dots: Changes in Teacher/Team Practice, System Outcomes, and Student Outcomes -- Appendix AD Coaching Self-Assessment -- Index -- Back Cover.