This Educational Leadership Portfolio (ELP) examines the instructional coaching program at St. Georges Technical High School in Middletown, DE. In an effort to provide personalized professional learning supports for the teachers employed by the school, the program was implemented in 2015 to ensure teachers had access to learning opportunities…

Over the past five years, policymakers have shown a renewed interest in using teacher evaluation as a lever for increasing the quality of the teacher labor market. As such, states have been spurred by federal policies such as Race to the Top and influential foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to use a more reliable, more…