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Coaching For Continuous Improvement, Matthew B. Courtney
Coaching For Continuous Improvement, Matthew B. Courtney
The Rural Educator
Since 2015, the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) has provided schools across the state with access to highly skilled instructional coaches. Primarily working in rural settings, these coaches provide a voluntary, integrated coaching model that focuses on building sustainable systems. Coaches provide a range of services, including systems design, strategic planning support, whole-team professional learning, professional learning community (PLC) LC facilitation, and fidelity monitoring. This article describes the theory of action for KDE’s Continuous Improvement Coaching program, presents two case studies of rural elementary schools who utilized the program, and discusses the key features of the program and its relevance …
Wyoming’S Instructional Facilitator Program: Teachers’ Beliefs About The Impact Of Coaching On Practice, Leslie S. Rush, Suzanne Young
Wyoming’S Instructional Facilitator Program: Teachers’ Beliefs About The Impact Of Coaching On Practice, Leslie S. Rush, Suzanne Young
The Rural Educator
In 2006, the Wyoming state government allocated monies for the Department of Education to fund the work of Instructional Facilitators, or coaches, in schools across the state (Wyoming Department of Education, 2008). In Spring 2009, after the program had been in place for two years, an ex-post facto study was designed to examine the impact of the program on teacher practice. An online survey was used to collect data from classroom teachers throughout Wyoming’s public schools. Teachers answered questions about the extent of their work with Instructional Facilitators, the activities that they worked on with Instructional Facilitators, and the impact …