Secondary teachers benefit from ongoing coaching to support their implementation of evidence-based literacy practices across content areas. However, several factors may facilitate or impede literacy coaching at the secondary level. We conducted an exploratory survey study to investigate 141 middle school teachers' and 64 instructional coaches'…

Three instructional coaches share more than 200 of the most helpful problem-solving strategies they've used in their decades-long work with teachers, administrators, and coaches. "The Instructional Coaching Handbook" is not a new model of coaching. It addresses common hiccups that prevent productive coaching conversations from happening…

Undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) experiences have academic, psychological, and social challenges that require additional support to navigate. This article explains the implementation of a STEM peer coaching program designed to provide such support. Through this program, undergraduate STEM students served as…

Teacher retention is often attributed to the support, or the lack thereof, that teachers, especially novice teachers, receive when they enter their teaching careers. Early career teachers often need mentors and additional support from school administrators, teammates, and instructional coaches to be effective teachers. School and district…

Seaford School District has allocated significant resources and launched multiple initiatives to increase the achievement of Seaford Middle School mathematics students. These included adopting high quality instructional materials, hiring a school-based mathematics coach, purchasing curriculum materials, ensuring collaborative grade level planning…

This study addresses the problem surrounding low educator self-efficacy for data collection and behavior reduction strategies among elementary special educators. Educators working with students who present behavior challenges do not feel a strong sense of self-efficacy when it comes to data collection and behavior management. Due to this,…

University supervisors perform a variety of roles and functions as they support teacher candidate growth. However, supervisors receive little training, resulting in misunderstandings about assessment expectations, perceived position roles, and teacher candidate coaching or feedback inconsistencies. This study was an examination of how…

Science Olympiad (SO) is a team-oriented STEM competition that offers students the opportunity to participate in a wide range of STEM topics attracting students with varying STEM interests. This hermeneutic phenomenological cross-case study explored the experiences of 12 SO coaches with experience coaching middle school and/or high school teams.…

Approximately 10% of U.S. children are diagnosed with ADHD, and the majority of them retain clinical levels of ADHD symptoms as an adult. Among them, comorbidities are often observed, which can negatively impact a broad range of their everyday life including social, emotional, behavioral, and academic/work functioning. A first-line treatment…

The problem that this action research study addressed was the ineffective facilitation strategies used in professional development for teachers. The purpose of the study was to determine whether reflective practices impact teachers' instructional decisions. The study used Cognitive Coaching, a reflective coaching model, as its intervention. To…

Early childhood (EC) teachers are not receiving adequate professional development (PD) to support their development of capacities to improve EC program quality. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to explore EC teacher perspectives on PD to support their development of capacities to improve EC program quality. The conceptual framework…

This study explored an emerging practice, online video coaching, which builds on the affordances of digital technology to allow coaches to work with geographically distant teachers. Content-focused mathematics coaching has proven successful in a face-to-face environment because of its personalized nature, long-term sustainability, and the…

There is an interconnected issue of lack of student achievement in reading and professional training around reading for teachers. This study sought to understand if self-reflective professional development in the area of the science of reading improves teacher confidence in teaching reading. The participants of the Cycle 1 process consisted of K-2…

Modern advances in communication technology have allowed for the expansion of asynchronous online sport coaching services. In this intra-individual repeated time measures study, the effects of coaching communication scheduling on athletes' affective state and the coach-athlete relationship were observed as well as measures of performance in the…

Using an implementation science framework, this study examines the impact of a multicomponent professional development (PD) approach implemented by internal peer coaches on early intervention providers' use of Family Guided Routines-Based Intervention. The experimental study used a single-case multiple baseline design across participants,…