Notes About This Coaching Menu of Options
As a planning team, we recently created an information hub that has hyperlinks to all kinds of documents and sites, many of which we created. One of the documents that I made that is sure to impact my work is the Coaching Menu of Options . As the name suggests, this tool presents teachers with a range of ways they can engage with instructional coaching next year. I borrowed the basic chart from the teaching partner who is working with the planning team next door, and I made revisions so that our menu represents our planning team's hopes, and values. It also reflects some of the theory I think is important. I'd like to think this menu helps lay the initial groundwork for impactful collaborative work based on teachers' perceived needs. I've linked to “ What Good Coaches Do ,” a blog post by Jim Knight, a researcher who studies instructional coaching at the University of Kansas. Knight writes and preaches about research-based "partnership principles" that coache...