Moves for Leading Student-Centered Coaching

Move #1: Commit to your Approach to Coaching

Is it...

• Relationship-Driven,
• Teacher-Centered, or
• Student-Centered

Move #2: Separate Coaching from Supervision

Strategies

• Plan how you will provide pressure and support
• Clearly define the coach's role
• Set expectations for instructional practice
• Avoid coaches leading walk throughs and other evaluative processes

Move #3: Create a Culture of Learning

Strategies

• Always maintain an asset-based perspective towards teachers
• Embrace the messiness of learning among teachers and students
• Give coaching the time it needs to work
• Use protocols for collaboration

Move #4: Set the Expectation for Authentic Participation in Coaching Cycles

Make the 'Why' about Student Learning

Move #5: Expect Coaching Cycles

Strategies

• Hold teachers accountable, yet it's not about compliance
• Provide choice, ownership, and autonomy to teachers
• Affirm and celebrate!

Coaching Cycles are...

• Where coaches make a measurable impact
• Aligned with the standards
• The most important part of a coach's schedule

Resources

• Rubric for Leading Student-Centered Coaching
• Coaching Contiuum