by Brian Sepe | Oct 18, 2022 | Improving Instruction, Professional Learning, Teaching Strategies |
“When teachers set compelling student-focused goals for engagement or achievement, they establish an objective standard for judging how effectively they are implementing new practices. The standard for excellence in teaching should always be student...
by Brian Sepe and Matt Kelly | Sep 6, 2022 | Coaching Videos, Instructional Coaching, New Coaches, Professional Learning, Self-Coaching |
Instructional coaching is meaningful and important work in our schools. Our goal at ICG is to provide tools and resources to help you to defend yourself against chaos and whim and to find more time to support excellent instruction every day, in every class, for every...
by Matt Kelly | Jun 1, 2022 | Improving Instruction, Instructional Coaching, Professional Learning, Self-Coaching |
Part of professional growth is learning new things every day. Educators must often adapt quickly to meet urgent needs of students, overcome unforeseen challenges, or sometimes follow countless surface-level introductions to new strategies. However, the ability to...
by Matt Kelly | May 26, 2022 | Improving Instruction, Instructional Coaching, Professional Learning, School Reform, Student Learning |
Jim Knight and Michael Faggella-Luby’s article in the April 2022 issue of the Learning Forward Journal, The Learning Professional, confronts the negative associations many educators have with the word “data.” These negative associations with data often rise from...
by Matt Kelly | May 19, 2022 | Better Conversations, Impact Cycle, Instructional Coaching, New Coaches, Partnership Principles, Professional Learning |
Summertime is just around the corner and if you’re anything like the educators we’ve spoken with you probably know exactly how many days are left in the school year! These next few months offer a great opportunity for educators to spend time with friends...
by Matt Kelly | May 10, 2022 | Better Conversations, Instructional Coaching, Partnership Principles, Professional Learning, School Reform, Teaching Strategies |
Instructional coaching has a lot of moving pieces. Not only do coaching partners have to manage countless resources, strategies, and relationships, but to successfully help teachers reach their own student-focused goals, coaches must embody the Partnership Principles...
