Contents: Setting goals for coaching cycles -- Using learning targets -- Getting ready for coaching in the classroom -- Noticing and naming -- Micro modeling -- Thinking aloud -- Sorting student work -- Providing strengths-based feedback -- Measuring the impact of coaching.
Contents: Preface -- Introduction : golden prospects- and precedents -- The buffer : the "brutal facts" of K-12 education -- Curriculum : the foundation of effective education -- Literacy : the engine of equity -- Effective instruction : a remarkable convergence -- When evidence goes AWOL -- The (mis)education of educators -- Why professional development "almost always sucks" -- How we can get …