This week’s #educoach chat was on Effective Pre/Post Conferences with Teachers for Observation and was a great discussion that all principals could benefit from. If you would like to read the archives of the chat, you can find a link at the end of this post. I’ve previously written about leading with a “coaching hat” … [Read more…]
If you don’t read ASCD‘s Edcuational Leadership, then I highly recommend that you start. The current summer edition is filled with great articles, as it always is. There is an article by Christina Steinbacher-Reed and Elizabeth Powers titled Don’t Bench Coaching as a result of the numerous budget cuts that often mean cutting coaches (which … [Read more…]
In my recent post reflecting on my goals, I shared that one of my goals is to act more like an Instructional Coach than a Supervisor when observing classrooms and providing teachers with feedback. I mentioned this to a member of my Twitter PLN (also co-moderator of the #Educoach twitter chat), Kathy Perret, and she … [Read more…]