Districts and schools often count on coaching to promote student learning and organizational change. Across the United States, a wide variety of coaches engage in various types of work with teachers as well as school leaders. But coaching is often loosely defined, weakly supported, and ultimately underutilized, and as a consequence, its promise…

Although there are some federal and state statutes and regulations regarding principal evaluation systems, there are a variety of principal evaluation systems across the nation and in California. California's principal evaluation system is at the district level, meaning that implementation and effectiveness rest solely on the district. A district…

The problem addressed in this research study was that strategies used by literacy coaches to train teachers to improve elementary level reading instruction are often not effective. The purpose of this qualitative narrative analysis study was to gain insight into the perspectives of teachers and literacy coaches in one school district in South…

The purpose of this large-scale descriptive study was to investigate the impact of an implementation model designed to provide U.S. classroom teachers with the knowledge, skills, and resources required to provide aided augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) instruction to their students with extensive support needs and complex…

Prior research on new teacher mentoring has focused on reducing teacher attrition rates. However, studies have yet to explore the descriptions of early-career special education teachers in a formal mentoring program. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how early-career special education teachers, located in one school…

State and territory child care and early education (CCEE) leaders typically support a range of professional development (PD) opportunities for CCEE providers. This highlight presents the "Professional Development Matrix for Quality Improvement" created by Douglass, Tout, and Doyle. The matrix provides a framework for organizing and…

The purpose of this mixed-methods research was to understand the benefits of a professional coaching program in higher education and its impact on faculty resilience and well-being. Participants in this study included faculty members who had been enrolled in a higher education faculty coaching program for two years, for one year, and faculty who…

The purpose of this mixed-methods research was to understand the benefits of a professional coaching program in higher education and its impact on faculty resilience and well-being. Participants in this study included faculty members who had been enrolled in a higher education faculty coaching program for two years, for one year, and faculty who…

The purpose of this mixed-methods research was to understand the benefits of a professional coaching program in higher education and its impact on faculty resilience and well-being. Participants in this study included faculty members who had been enrolled in a higher education faculty coaching program for two years, for one year, and faculty who…

With the rates of autism and the Latino population steadily rising in the United States, Latino families face marked disparities with access to timely and quality care. To date, there is little documented literature for how to best support Latino caregivers of young children with autism. Caregiver coaching is one method to disseminate…

Instructional change rarely happens easily in educational settings where complex systems and rigid practices may be well-entrenched (Kovacs, 2018). Yet, educators are routinely called to adapt to shifts that occur when new pedagogical practices are integrated into established models of instruction. For teachers to feel good about their craft, it…

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the impact of executive coaching on leadership development and organizational success in higher education institutions. The study uses quantitative data to identify trends, patterns, and correlations between executive coaching implementation and institutional performance improvements and the perceived…

Although instructional coaches are deeply committed to continuous improvement, they rarely have access to professional learning themselves. Rarer still is differentiated professional learning that meets coaches where they are in their careers and their professional growth. Just as Florida's Orange County Public Schools accentuates the importance…

The instructional coaches in Kildeer Countryside School District 96 (KCSD 96), outside Chicago, are like tugboats, a key part of a maritime navigation system. Just as tugboats nudge and guide barges and ships that need steering assistance to navigate tricky waters, the coaches in KCSD 96 nudge and guide educators to navigate toward school and…

The past decade has witnessed a strong, standards-based call for improving what mathematics is taught and how it is taught. In the USA, districts have hired instructional coaches to help teachers shift their teaching from algorithm-based instruction to instruction that is more student-centered and conceptually focused. The purpose of this study…