by Kim Cofino | Aug 31, 2022 | 5 Min Fri
I really believe that coaching is the best job ever. I love being a coach. I love the position in schools. I truly believe coaching is the key to sustainable professional growth, but as a really complicated position to be in. I often say it’s the “messy middle”...
by Kim Cofino | Jul 21, 2022 | 5 Min Fri
Teachers know what good learning looks like, and as coaches, we’re often asked to run Professional Learning for our peers. So, when we get the opportunity to offer PD as coaches, we need to model what we want to see in classrooms. If it’s the first time...
by Kim Cofino | Jul 14, 2022 | 5 Min Fri
We’ve all heard the term coach. Whether we think of an athletic coach, or a performing arts coach, or a life coach. We all have preconceived notions of what coaching is. This can make our job as instructional coaches even more complicated! Because as coaches, we...
by Kim Cofino | Jul 1, 2022 | 5 Min Fri
I like to say that coaching should be like Starbucks: customized to you, and consistent every time. One of the things that makes a custom but consistent experience is having a structure for the process of coaching. In today’s post, I’m going to share...
by Kim Cofino | Jun 22, 2022 | 5 Min Fri
It has been another crazy year! Are you feeling as exhausted and burnt out as I am? For the third year in a row, just when we think we’re starting to see the light and the end of the tunnel, something else happens that kind of keeps us in the darkness. I know,...
by Kim Cofino | Jun 9, 2022 | 5 Min Fri
As instructional coaches, our role is to work closely with all stakeholders within our school communities, and that means we need to be the kind of person that people like working with! In our #coachbetter YouTube series, we’ve been asking teachers, counselors,...
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