Dennis Sparks is one of our generation’s most influential educational leaders. His guidance of the National Staff Development Council, now Learning Forward, established it as the world’s leading organization for professional development. His books especially Leading for Results and Leadership 180: Daily Meditations for School Leaders, are packed with wise, practical advice, concisely articulated. His blog pushes, inspires, and educates me, and I highly recommend it.
For all these reasons, I was honored when Dennis asked me to write a guest post for his blog. My column, “Six Ways Principals Can Support Instructional Coaching,” begins as follows:
Instructional coaching has the potential to dramatically improve teaching practice and consequently student learning. But in most cases, a coach’s success is directly connected to how effectively she or he is supported (or not supported) by his or her principal. After working with hundreds of schools where coaches have succeeded and struggled, I’ve found that there are six actions principals can do that will make or break instructional coaching success.
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