Evaluating Instructional Coaching: People, Programs, and Partnership
Sharon Thomas, Jim Knight, Michelle Harris, Ann Hoffman
A clear and comprehensive guide to evaluating and supporting instructional coaches and coaching programs, including how to recruit, hire, and retain effective coaches.
Purchase the Book:
“The best kind of evaluation fosters growth by celebrating the ability to think for oneself. That is our goal with this book. When coaches’ professionalism is respected, they, in turn, will respect the professionalism of teachers. And when teachers’ professionalism is honored, everyone benefits, especially students”
– Jim Knight
“... a good evaluation tool is both an assessment and a driving force for planning and delivering excellent instruction…. good evaluation works from the cornerstone of ‘we can all get better’. ”
- Michelle Harris
“... good evaluation is an ongoing process.”
- Sharon Thomas
Creating Powerful Coaching Programs
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Evaluating Instructional Coaches
Suggestions for how to create a process for evaluating instructional coaches. Dives into specific aspects of employee evaluation and how to align evaluation with the research on instructional coaching.
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Evaluating Instructional Coaching Programs
Suggestions for creating an evaluation process for an instructional coaching program, including guidance on how to conduct an audit to measure program success.
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Recruiting and Hiring Instructional Coaches
Processes for recruiting and hiring instructional coaches that support both best coaching practices and best hiring practices
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Retaining Coaches and Sustaining Coaching Programs
Suggestions on ways to strengthen coach retention and coaching program sustainability.
Implement Effective Evaluation to Enhance Coaching, Mentoring, and Learning Outcomes
Expand Your Learning
Explore our other resources to learn more about Instructional Coaching. We offer a variety of workshops, PDFs, informational videos and more.
This workshop addresses one of our most frequently asked questions: how to evaluate coaches as employees and how to evaluate coaching programs around best practices in both coaching and human resources.
An on-demand course designed for district leaders, principals, coach champions, and instructional coaches who are looking for ways to launch or refine an instructional coaching program in their district or school.
These appendices contain standards, rubrics, feedback forms, self-evaluation forms, administrator forms, Impact Cycle checklist, and a candidate evaluation form intended to support the learning in the book and workshop.
Why Evaluation Matters
At ICG we have found that when evaluation processes work best, employees can use that process to set goals for improvement in their work. With sound practices in place to evaluate instructional coaches and coaching programs, instructional coaches will get better in their work, and that means teachers will get better in their work, and, ultimately, that the students will learn more.
Read More About Instructional Coaching
View Jim Knight’s collection of books to learn about his research and how you can implement each of the seven factors for any successful coaching program.
