Recommendations for adopting and sustaining high-quality coaching¶

Strategy · All strategies
Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

Based on survey findings, the report recommends that principals and district administrators monitor coach workload and protect coach time; that coaches spend at least 30 minutes with teachers at biweekly intervals; that coaching time focus on supporting teachers' use of technology with students; that teachers be included more often in coach evaluation to make coaching more personalized; and that longer-term, dedicated federal and state funding investments sustain coaching programs.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Coaches need protected time, professional development support, and sustainable multi-year funding to implement as described

Constraints¶

• The time and frequency recommendation is attributed to Dynamic Learning Project research (Bakhshaei, Hardy, Ravitz, & Seylar, 2019) rather than tested in this survey

Target Learners¶

• School principals, district administrators, and instructional coaches in K-12 schools

Target Learning Goals¶

• Improving the value and impact of instructional coaching for teacher growth

Affordances¶

• Powerful Learning Framework Digital Promise

Related Strategies¶

• Protect coaches' time so the majority is spent directly with teachers
• School and district leaders' recommendations for implementing effective classroom coaching programs
• Meet consistently with the coach throughout the school year in dedicated one-on-one time
• Design coaching programs as a systemic collective enterprise with shared vision, recruited and developed coaches, and continuous evaluation
• Strengthen administrator induction by integrating it into a continuum of supports, mandating coach training and consistent coaching intervals, building program–district partnerships, and using CalAPA results to inform coaching

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Kasey Van Ostrand, John Seylar, Christina Luke. (2019). Prevalence of Coaching and Approaches to Supporting Coaching in Education. Digital Promise. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/821256d6-646b-4188-9b6f-348c6aeee6da