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Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles
Coaching cycles are the most impactful contact a coach can have with teachers, but they are also the activity that requires the highest level of skill. Collaboratively planning and observing lessons, and giving supportive feedback on those lessons, is the best way to improve the effectiveness of teaching and therefore student outcomes. Yet this core activity is often undermined by the myriad other demands on a coach’s time.
This book addresses the issues, roadblocks, and fears faced by coaches and administrators in effectively launching and facilitating a program of coaching and takes you through the coaching cycle itself in practical, applied, and no-nonsense steps that will help you maximize its impact.
If you are a coach, a coach of coaches, or an administrator, following the suggestions in this book will help you achieve a much larger return on your coaching investment. There will be more teachers coached, increased instructional effectiveness, and ultimately increased student achievement.
This book addresses the issues, roadblocks, and fears faced by coaches and administrators in effectively launching and facilitating a program of coaching and takes you through the coaching cycle itself in practical, applied, and no-nonsense steps that will help you maximize its impact.
If you are a coach, a coach of coaches, or an administrator, following the suggestions in this book will help you achieve a much larger return on your coaching investment. There will be more teachers coached, increased instructional effectiveness, and ultimately increased student achievement.
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Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles is a rare gem in the crowded field of instructional leadership books. Tavernetti provides us with a practical, no-nonsense roadmap for implementing instructional coaching cycles, based on his extensive on-the-ground experience and expertise. Crucially, this book challenges instructional coaches to reclaim the core purpose of their work: supporting and developing teachers to improve student learning. This book is essential reading for anyone passionate about fostering excellence in instructional coaching, and it will undoubtedly become a well-worn resource on your professional bookshelf.
In Maximizing the Impact of Coaching Cycles, coaching expert Gene Tavernetti provides an exceptionally clear, practical and humane guide to instructional coaching - informed by years of successful experience. Tavernetti also provides a frank and much-needed appraisal of the current dismal state of the field of coaching. I learned vital lessons from reading this book and highly recommend it for coaches or any educator interested in improved teaching and learning.
It is rare to see professional development that is designed around the key concepts of a PLC where teachers are truly engaged in 'Learning by Doing.' Dr. Tavernetti's model of Coaching Cycles is an example of professional development in its most effective form. New and veteran teachers alike can access personal growth and continuous learning by participating. For me, as a district support provider, it was similarly simple to learn, to replicate, and to sustain from site to site and year to year. My district benefited greatly from his framework, and I can see it's effects year after year in the classroom with teachers.
I know what Gene writes in this book works because for the past 20 years I have worked side by side with Dr. Tavernetti with dozens of my teachers in coaching cycles utilizing the strategies described in this book. All administrators and coaches who want to help teachers improve should keep a copy handy for reference.