Coaching+Books

tools to help teachers achieve excellence." || [|Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction] by Jim Knight || programs in the US and other countries.This edition has been updated to include examples, opportunities to practice specific skills, a clearly defined coaching process, applications for different professionals, and up-to-date anecdotes and quotes. || [|Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching] by Stephen Barkley || Visits, Coplanning, Study Groups, Demonstration Lessons, Peer Coaching, Coteaching || [|Differentiated Literacy Coaching: Scaffolding for Student and Teacher Success by Mary Catherine Moran] ||
 * **Online Review:** "Unmistakable Impact //exemplifies everything Jim Knight advocates: a clear// //focus, respect for educators’ significant contributions, and the value that// //well-designed professional learning contributes to school improvement// //efforts."// || [|Unmistakable Impact] by Jim Knight ||
 * **Online Review:** "Teachers helping teachers is a great way to create a powerful instructional staff. Knight offers practical and useful
 * **Online Review:** "Teachers helping teachers is a great way to create a powerful instructional staff. Knight offers practical and useful
 * **Online Review:** Barkley, a former classroom teacher who teaches educators and administrators in the US and internationally about effective teaching, describes the importance and use of coaching in teaching. He explains the differences between mentoringand coaching, its components, coaching skills and the three-part process, and case studies and examples of coaching
 * **Online Review:** Barkley, a former classroom teacher who teaches educators and administrators in the US and internationally about effective teaching, describes the importance and use of coaching in teaching. He explains the differences between mentoringand coaching, its components, coaching skills and the three-part process, and case studies and examples of coaching
 * **Online Review:** Diane Sweeney's book "Student-Centered Coaching" has arrived just in time formany districts across the country who are frustrated with lackluster results from the instructional coaching movement. She argues that for too long we'vefocused coaching efforts on teachers' practices and hoped to see results in student achievement rather than focusing on students from the get-go. She includes ways to make classroom visits more student-centered, specific data management tools and protocols for analyzing data, and a "results-based coaching tool" for coaches to measure their effectiveness with student progress. This book is a must for anyone who's a coach or principal. || [|Student Centered Coaching] by Diane Sweeney ||
 * **Description:** Making sure that all students read well is a top priority for schools, and literacy coaches are playing an increasingly important role in the effort. Their challenge? To deliver the kind of instruction and support best suited to the teachers they work with and most likely to help those teachers improve the literacy of their students. In Differentiated Literacy Coaching, Mary Catherine Moran presents a solution for meeting the diverse needs of literacy coaches and their charges. The heart of the book is an exploration of the Literacy Coaching Continuum, a series of professional learning formats that coaches can use singularly or in combination to design and deliver the mosteffective, most appropriate support: Collaborative Resource Management, Literacy Content Presentations, Focused Classroom
 * **Description:** Making sure that all students read well is a top priority for schools, and literacy coaches are playing an increasingly important role in the effort. Their challenge? To deliver the kind of instruction and support best suited to the teachers they work with and most likely to help those teachers improve the literacy of their students. In Differentiated Literacy Coaching, Mary Catherine Moran presents a solution for meeting the diverse needs of literacy coaches and their charges. The heart of the book is an exploration of the Literacy Coaching Continuum, a series of professional learning formats that coaches can use singularly or in combination to design and deliver the mosteffective, most appropriate support: Collaborative Resource Management, Literacy Content Presentations, Focused Classroom
 * **Description:** Making sure that all students read well is a top priority for schools, and literacy coaches are playing an increasingly important role in the effort. Their challenge? To deliver the kind of instruction and support best suited to the teachers they work with and most likely to help those teachers improve the literacy of their students. In Differentiated Literacy Coaching, Mary Catherine Moran presents a solution for meeting the diverse needs of literacy coaches and their charges. The heart of the book is an exploration of the Literacy Coaching Continuum, a series of professional learning formats that coaches can use singularly or in combination to design and deliver the mosteffective, most appropriate support: Collaborative Resource Management, Literacy Content Presentations, Focused Classroom

//Disclaimer: I'm not a publisher nor a published author. I have nothing to sell or gain from these recommendations--these are just ten texts that I think rock!!!! This site is under construction and hopefully the texts listed below will keep you busy until I add more texts.// 1. [|Systems for Change in Literacy Education: A Guide to Professional Development]
 * Top 10 Favorite Coaching Texts:**

2. [|Learning Along the Way by Diane Sweeney]

3. [|Differentiated Literacy Coaching: Scaffolding for Student and Teacher Success by Mary Catherine Moran]

4. [|Powerful Designs for Professional Learning, 2nd Edition - Edited by Lois Brown Easton (NSDC)]

5. [|The Literacy Coach's Survival Guide: Essential Questions And Practical Answers by Cathy A. Toll]

6. [|Surviving But Not Yet Thriving: Essential Questions and Practical Answers for Experienced Literacy Coaches by Cathy A. Toll]


 * Other Great Reads**

[|Responsive Literacy Coaching: Tools for Creating and Sustaining Purposeful Change]

[|The Literacy Coach's Desk Reference: Processes And Perspectives for Effective Coaching by Cathy A. Toll]