Coaching and Mentoring
Skills
Background Information on Instructional Coaching and Mentoring
Best Practices in Instructional Coaching:
https://www.educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/Best%20Practices%20in%20Instructional%20Coaching%20-%20Iowa%20Area%20Education%20Agencies.pdf
Three Steps to Great Coaching:
http://cabooseit.s3.amazonaws.com/makes_sense_strategies/3-steps-to-great-coaching.pdf
Are You Coaching Heavy or Light?:
http://nceln.fpg.unc.edu/sites/nceln.fpg.unc.edu/files/events/02%20Coaching_Heavy_Light_article.pdf
Reprising Coaching Heavy and Coaching Light:
https://learningforward.org/docs/leading-teacher/dec10_teachersleading.pdf
The Many Roles of an Instructional Coach (Educational Leadership):
www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/jun16/vol73/num09/The-Many-Roles-of-an-Instructional-Coach.aspx
What Instructional Coaching Is and Isn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmJ_E43iysk&t=185s
Coach Tips Blog Posts:
http://info.teachstone.com/blog/topic/coach-tips
Establishing the Need for Peer Coaching: http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/115014/chapters/Establishing-the-Need-for-Peer-Coaching.aspx
Mentor Practice Standards (New Teacher Center): https://newteachercenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Mentor-Practice-Standards_RB21.pdf
Tell Me About a Mentor Who Nurtured Your Abilities as a Leader
Widening the Mentoring Circle
Mentoring School Leaders (modules)
Inclusive Coaching Focuses on Students, Not Teachers:
https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/inclusive-coaching-focuses-on-students-not-teachers
Grow a Coaching Relationship from the Ground Up (ASCD)
https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/grow-a-coaching-relationship-from-the-ground-up
A New Way of Thinking: https://jenniferabrams.com/new-way-thinking-beginning-teacher-coaching-garmstons-costas-states-mind/
The Good Mentor: What It Takes to Be Effective: https://www.edutopia.org/good-mentor
Five Benefits of Instructional Coaching: https://blog.tcea.org/five-benefits-instructional-coaching/
Best Practices in Instructional Coaching:
https://www.educateiowa.gov/sites/files/ed/documents/Best%20Practices%20in%20Instructional%20Coaching%20-%20Iowa%20Area%20Education%20Agencies.pdf
Three Steps to Great Coaching:
http://cabooseit.s3.amazonaws.com/makes_sense_strategies/3-steps-to-great-coaching.pdf
Are You Coaching Heavy or Light?:
http://nceln.fpg.unc.edu/sites/nceln.fpg.unc.edu/files/events/02%20Coaching_Heavy_Light_article.pdf
Reprising Coaching Heavy and Coaching Light:
https://learningforward.org/docs/leading-teacher/dec10_teachersleading.pdf
The Many Roles of an Instructional Coach (Educational Leadership):
www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/jun16/vol73/num09/The-Many-Roles-of-an-Instructional-Coach.aspx
What Instructional Coaching Is and Isn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmJ_E43iysk&t=185s
Coach Tips Blog Posts:
http://info.teachstone.com/blog/topic/coach-tips
Establishing the Need for Peer Coaching: http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/115014/chapters/Establishing-the-Need-for-Peer-Coaching.aspx
Mentor Practice Standards (New Teacher Center): https://newteachercenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Mentor-Practice-Standards_RB21.pdf
Tell Me About a Mentor Who Nurtured Your Abilities as a Leader
Widening the Mentoring Circle
Mentoring School Leaders (modules)
Inclusive Coaching Focuses on Students, Not Teachers:
https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/inclusive-coaching-focuses-on-students-not-teachers
Grow a Coaching Relationship from the Ground Up (ASCD)
https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/grow-a-coaching-relationship-from-the-ground-up
A New Way of Thinking: https://jenniferabrams.com/new-way-thinking-beginning-teacher-coaching-garmstons-costas-states-mind/
The Good Mentor: What It Takes to Be Effective: https://www.edutopia.org/good-mentor
Five Benefits of Instructional Coaching: https://blog.tcea.org/five-benefits-instructional-coaching/
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Instructional Coaching Strategies
Purposeful Paraphrasing
http://digitalpromise.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mc_ntc_paraphrasing.pdf
Raising the Level of Conversation by Using Paraphrasing as a Listening Skill (Garmston):
https://learningforward.org/docs/jsd-spring-2008/garmston292.pdf?sfvrsn=2
31 Powerful Questions:
https://www.scribd.com/document/410103617/31-Powerful-Questions-pdf
Asking Powerful Questions (Rhode Island Department of Education):
http://www.ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Instructional-Resources/Data-Use-PD/Turnkey_Data_Conversations_Day_10.pdf
Planning Tools for Coaching Conversations:
https://merit-www.education.wisc.edu/eop-dev/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/04/Planning-Tool-for-Coaching-Conversations.pdf
General Coaching Sentence Stems: https://brightmorningteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Coaching-Sentence-Stems.pdf
Coaching Conversation Analysis Tool: http://brightmorningteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Coaching-Conversation-Rubric.pdf
Purposeful Paraphrasing
http://digitalpromise.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/mc_ntc_paraphrasing.pdf
Raising the Level of Conversation by Using Paraphrasing as a Listening Skill (Garmston):
https://learningforward.org/docs/jsd-spring-2008/garmston292.pdf?sfvrsn=2
31 Powerful Questions:
https://www.scribd.com/document/410103617/31-Powerful-Questions-pdf
Asking Powerful Questions (Rhode Island Department of Education):
http://www.ride.ri.gov/Portals/0/Uploads/Documents/Instruction-and-Assessment-World-Class-Standards/Instructional-Resources/Data-Use-PD/Turnkey_Data_Conversations_Day_10.pdf
Planning Tools for Coaching Conversations:
https://merit-www.education.wisc.edu/eop-dev/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/04/Planning-Tool-for-Coaching-Conversations.pdf
General Coaching Sentence Stems: https://brightmorningteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Coaching-Sentence-Stems.pdf
Coaching Conversation Analysis Tool: http://brightmorningteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Coaching-Conversation-Rubric.pdf
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Instructional Coaching Quick Reference Card
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Active Listening Strategies
Jim Knight on Listening (video)
Unproductive patterns of listening (article)
Committed listening
The Big 6: An Active Listening Skill Set (article and podcast)
Jim Knight on Listening (video)
Unproductive patterns of listening (article)
Committed listening
The Big 6: An Active Listening Skill Set (article and podcast)
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Building Trust
The Trust Factor (ASCD)
13 Behaviors of a High Trust Leader (Stephen M. R. Covey)
13 Behaviors of a High Trust Leader (Stephen M. R. Covey) vers 2
Jim Knight on Trust (video)
Three Ways to Build Trust as an Instructional Coach
Jim Knight on 5 Components of a Trusting Coaching Relationship
Trust: An Essential Part of Coaching
Three Levels of Trust-Where Do Your Relationships Stand?
The Trust Factor (ASCD)
13 Behaviors of a High Trust Leader (Stephen M. R. Covey)
13 Behaviors of a High Trust Leader (Stephen M. R. Covey) vers 2
Jim Knight on Trust (video)
Three Ways to Build Trust as an Instructional Coach
Jim Knight on 5 Components of a Trusting Coaching Relationship
Trust: An Essential Part of Coaching
Three Levels of Trust-Where Do Your Relationships Stand?
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Coaching in Difficult Situations
Is it past time you engaged in a "courageous conversation"?
Ladder of Effective Speaking
5 Coaching Strategies That Helped Me Connect with Resistant Teachers
Working with Reluctant Teachers
Understanding Teacher Resistance (Video)
Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM)
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Ladder of Effective Speaking
5 Coaching Strategies That Helped Me Connect with Resistant Teachers
Working with Reluctant Teachers
Understanding Teacher Resistance (Video)
Concerns-Based Adoption Model (CBAM)
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Recommended reading:
Mentoring Matters (Lipton and Wellman)
https://www.amazon.com/Mentoring-Matters-Practical-Learning-Relationships/dp/0966502221/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503154164&sr=8-1&keywords=mentoring+matters
The Art of Coaching (Aguilar)
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Coaching-Effective-Strategies-Transformation/dp/1118206533/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503154233&sr=1-1&keywords=the+art+of+coaching
Better Conversations (Knight)
https://www.amazon.com/Better-Conversations-Coaching-Ourselves-Connected/dp/1506307450/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503154274&sr=1-1&keywords=better+conversations
The Speed of Trust (Stephen M. R. Covey)
https://www.amazon.com/SPEED-Trust-Thing-Changes-Everything-ebook/dp/B000MGATWG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503157482&sr=8-1&keywords=speed+of+trust
Coaching Classroom Instruction (Marzano & Simms)
https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Classroom-Instruction-Strategies/dp/0983351260/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1521424613&sr=8-3&keywords=coaching+teachers
Educational Coaching: A Partnership for Problem Solving (Toll): https://www.amazon.com/Educational-Coaching-Partnership-Problem-Solving/dp/1416625615
Mentoring Matters (Lipton and Wellman)
https://www.amazon.com/Mentoring-Matters-Practical-Learning-Relationships/dp/0966502221/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503154164&sr=8-1&keywords=mentoring+matters
The Art of Coaching (Aguilar)
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Coaching-Effective-Strategies-Transformation/dp/1118206533/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503154233&sr=1-1&keywords=the+art+of+coaching
Better Conversations (Knight)
https://www.amazon.com/Better-Conversations-Coaching-Ourselves-Connected/dp/1506307450/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1503154274&sr=1-1&keywords=better+conversations
The Speed of Trust (Stephen M. R. Covey)
https://www.amazon.com/SPEED-Trust-Thing-Changes-Everything-ebook/dp/B000MGATWG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503157482&sr=8-1&keywords=speed+of+trust
Coaching Classroom Instruction (Marzano & Simms)
https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Classroom-Instruction-Strategies/dp/0983351260/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1521424613&sr=8-3&keywords=coaching+teachers
Educational Coaching: A Partnership for Problem Solving (Toll): https://www.amazon.com/Educational-Coaching-Partnership-Problem-Solving/dp/1416625615
