The Coaching Partnership

Create Unstoppable Teams through Collaborative Coaching! When teachers, coaches, mentors, and administrators successfully work together in a collaborative coaching partnership, everyone's effectiveness increases-and student achievement grows. The Coaching Partnership provides educators with a unique perspective and approach to instructional coaching centered on mutual and reciprocal accountability for continuous improvement. This essential resource provides the guidance and tools educators need to implement a coaching partnership system in their schools and achieve their ultimate goal: improved student learning outcomes. Drawing on their extensive experience and years of research, the authors identify all the necessary components for a successful coaching partnership, and show teachers, coaches, mentors, and administrators how to: • Optimize coaching partnerships with clearly defined processes and roles • Foster a culture of generative thinking to encourage learning, inquiry, and lasting change • Build trust to create successful collaborative, equitable relationships • Use frameworks to implement an evidence-based approach to coaching • Leverage academic language and adult communication strategies as drivers of success • Commit to an effective coaching system that makes improved performance last In addition to clear and effective strategies, each chapter contains real-life vignettes from the field, coaching-in-action videos, ideas for productive partnerships, reflective practice questions, and helpful definitions. Plus, a Coaching System Planning Tool will help each member of the coaching team reflect, collaborate, and take purposeful, immediate action-all with the goal of creating a learning environment where students thrive. Grounded in research, this accessible guide offers a practical and systematic approach for creating a vital coaching culture at any school!

Key Features :

i : Provides educators with a unique approach to instructional coaching centered on reciprocal accountability for continuous improvement
ii : A planning tool that helps each member of the coaching team reflect, collaborate, and take purposeful immediate action
iii : Creates a learning environment where students thrive