Provide instructional coaches with the training they need to create a continuous improvement system for teachers through goal-setting, observation, feedback, reflection, and collaborative planning.
Focus Area
Creating a plan to provide instructional coaches with ongoing opportunities to hone their skills requires buy-in from your coaches, comprehensive training, and a plan to measure success for coaches, teachers, and ultimately students. All of our professional learning programs are built from distinct phases throughout the school year to support this change across your district.
The BL Lab is the foundation of your professional learning program for instructional coaches. Coaches can use the lab to find new strategies they can begin using immediately, to work with their own coach, and measure their confidence to enact new outcomes while working with teachers.
Leaders can provide differentiated training for coaches with self-directed courses that are available when support is most needed. Administrators will also be able to gain a bird’s eye view of their entire professional learning programs, as well as the individual progress of select groups of educators.
Instructional coaches will be paired with an online coach of their own to learn new strategies and practice the skills they’ll need to make positive changes for teachers. Using the Try-Measure-Learn approach, BetterLesson coaches provide personalized guidance so that instructional coaches can try out new practices, measure their impact on teachers, and build a plan for continuous improvement.
Executive Coaching | Virtual
Leaders work towards their goals throughout the school year with support and advice from a personalized executive coach.
Deepening Your Work as an Instructional Coach | In-Person
I can clearly define the coaching role, the importance of implementing coaching cycles, and the use of effective communication to support coaching relationships.
Provide instructional coaches with the chance to collaborate to create district-wide changes. Virtual Workshops offer targeted learning in a collaborative environment where coaches and leaders set goals, identify manageable implementation steps, and create a plan to reflect on results for sustainable changes in practice.
Defining the Coaching Role to Set Up Successful Coaching | Virtual
I leverage the role of instructional coach to support teaching and learning.
Using Try-Measure-Learn to Develop a Coaching Cycle | Virtual
I use effective coaching cycles and/or models to support teacher practice.
Communicate with Teachers Effectively to Personalize Support | Virtual
I support the goals of instructional coaching through effective and collegial communication.
Creating ongoing changes in the practices of instructional coaches can take one to three years, depending on your district’s goals and size. Our comprehensive learning programs incorporate in-person, virtual, group, and self-directed learning experiences throughout the full school year, creating scaffolds of support aligned with how adult learners actually learn. Our team will create a learning plan that is tailored to your district’s strategic plan, and includes a mix of learning experiences backed by research and focused on target outcomes.
Outcomes are the connecting thread for all of our learning experiences. Each experience is tied to an outcome that makes the change in practice tangible and impactful for coaches and teachers. For instructional coaching, we focus on helping coaches achieve the below outcomes.
Outcome: I leverage the role of instructional coach to support teaching and learning.
Outcome: I use effective coaching cycles and/or models to support teacher practice.
Outcome: I support the goals of instructional coaching through effective and collegial communication.
Learn strategies for using objective classroom data to identify the impact of a teacher’s actions on student learning.
Develop teaching and learning strategies one step at a time using the BetterLesson coaching model.
Improve instructional coaching practice by formalizing the process for reflecting and deciding on next steps.
Accelerate growth in your schools and stay ahead of the curve.
