Instructional Coaching in Action: An Integrated Approach That Transforms Thinking, Practice, and Schools, May/2017

Unlike “fix-it” strategies that targeted teachers are likely to resist, educator-centered instructional coaching—ECIC—offers respectful coaching for professionals within their schoolwide community. Evidence-based results across all content areas, authentic practices for data collection and analysis, along with nonevaluative, confidential collaboration offers a productive and promising path to teacher development. 

Drawing on their extensive experience with ECIC, the authors offer this detailed guidance for coaches and school leaders on how you and your school can

1. Create the conditions for an effective ECIC program.
2. Get buy-in from teachers.
3. Clearly define the role of coach.
4. Roll out a coaching initiative.
5. Ensure ongoing success with coaching.

Filled with authentic advice from coaches, Instructional Coaching in Action provides valuable insight and demonstrates how educator-centered instructional coaching can make a difference in teacher learning, instructional practice, and student outcomes.

About the Authors:

Ellen B. Eisenberg is the Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching (PIIC), a statewide resource for developing and supporting the delivery of consistent, high-quality professional development around instructional coaching and mentoring. Her work involves helping school districts plan an effective instructional coaching model built on PIIC's before-during-after (BDA) cycle of consultation and the four-quadrant framework of effective core coaching elements.

Bruce P. Eisenberg is the Associate Director of the Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching (PIIC). His career has spanned 47 years in public education—many of which were spent teaching mathematics in a public high school where he designed and implemented curriculum for academically, musically, and artistically talented students.

Elliott A. Medrich is a Research Consultant to the Pennsylvania Institute for Instructional Coaching. Throughout his career, he has focused on designing systems and surveys for student and school-level data collection and conducting program evaluations of education initiatives at the national, state, and local levels.