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Instructional Coaching Books

Building your coaching library? These are the books we recommend:

Top 3 Favorites

• Coaching Matters, Joellen Killion, Cindy Harrison, Chris Bryan, Heather Clifton
• Building Teachers’ Capacity for Success….. A Collaborative Approach for Coaches and School Leaders, Pete Hall, Alissa Simeral
• Mentoring Matters, Laura Lipton, Bruce Wellman

Other favorites

• The PD Book, Elena Aguilar
• Assessing Impact: Evaluating Professional Learning, Joellen Killion
• Got Data, Laura Lipton, Bruce Wellman
• Coaching: Approaches & Perspectives edited by Jim Knight
• Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching, Stephen Barkley
• Coaching for Equity, Elena Aguilar
• The Art of Coaching, Elena Aguilar
• The Art of Coaching Teams, Elena Aguilar
• Onward, Elena Aguilar
• Cognitive Coaching: A Foundation for Renaissance Schools, Art Costa, Robert Garmston
• Cognitive Coaching, Art Costa, Robert Garmston
• The Adaptive School, Robert Garmston, Bruce Wellman
• Student Centered Coaching, Diane Sweeney
• Student Centered Coaching at the Secondary Level, Diane Sweeney
• The Essential Guide to Student Centered Coaching, Diane Sweeney
• The Impact Cycle, Jim Knight
• Better Conversations, Jim Knight
• Evaluating Instructional Coaching, Jim Knight
• The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching, Jim Knnight
• The EduCoach Survival Guide, Lindsay Deacon, Angela Harkness

Leadership Books

Not directly coaching related, but will support your coaching and leadership work:

• Personalized Professional Learning, Allison Rodman
• Learning by Doing: PLC Handbook, by Richard DuFour
• Having Hard Conversations, Jennifer Abrams
• Swimming in the Deep End, Jennifer Abrams
• Leadership and the New Science, Margaret Wheatley
• The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker
• The Coaching Habit, Michael Stainer 
• Start with Why, Simon Sinek
• Crossing the Chasm
• Good to Great, Michael Fullen
• Made to Stick, Chip and Dan Heath

Checklists & Templates

Practical resources you can print & use:

• Coaching Matters Chapter by Chapter Resource Lists (GOLD MINE)
• Jim Knight The Impact Cycle Resource Lists
• Coaching Team Tools (Bright Morning Team, Elena Augilar)
• THE IMPACT CYCLE