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Know what to do and when to do it with this Year Long Instructional Coaching Planner! These checklists, planners, and PD ideas are perfect for the new or veteran instructional coach!
Get EVERY instructional coaching resource from my store in this big bundle! Every resource for instructional coaches is included! Save by getting all of the resources in one bundle! This includes… Instructional coaching forms Meet the Coach slide shows Coaching cycle tools Notes for teachers Professional development forms Planning tools Calendars Start-up information PLC meeting…
Trying to build a strong literacy PLC at your school? This Literacy Coach PLC ELA Binder is the perfect all-in-one tool to help you do it! It includes the curriculum, academic vocabulary, and PLC agendas & forms you need to work with your PLCs and grow their knowledge and instruction! Best of all, it’s aligned to the TEKS for second-fifth grade!
With these resources, you will…
✅ Plan better PLCs with agendas, norms, and roles
✅ Build teacher knowledge about reading & writing with print-and-go resources
✅ Have a bank of ready-to-go strategies and printable activities for every single one of the TEKS in grades 2-5
✅ Increase reading and writing across the curriculum with a strategy ban
✅ Plan quality lessons with the lesson planning process & guides
✅ Align academic vocabulary with the word & definition list for all the TEKS in grades 2-5
✅ Analyze & discuss student writing and data
✅ Have better PLC discussions about assessments and more
Do you feel like your PLCs just aren’t producing quality instruction?
You can easy change your PLCs for the better with this Literacy Coaching PLC Binder for ELA. Your teachers will have the knowledge and strategies they need to plan and teach better lessons and your PLC meetings will be purposeful and productive.
If you’re a literacy coach, these forms are for you!
Have better PLCs with these guides, planning forms, and lesson plan templates for reading and writing, grades 2-5!
Make planning your next reading PD a breeze with this bundle of pre-made sorting activities! These hands on activities are perfect for balanced literacy professional development. Engage your teachers in real discussions about the writing process, expository and narrative characteristics for different grade levels, editing vs. revision, and more with these card sorting activities! Answer keys are included for each sort.
Zip File | 90 pages
Introducing yourself and your role as an instructional coach is an important way to start building a foundation for coaching work. This resource includes a slide show, coaching menu, invitations for a special “Meet the Coach” event, and a guide to teach you how to do it!
Zip File | 64 pages
This free download is just what you need if you’re starting out as an instructional coach and you’re not sure where to begin!
PDF | 9 pages
These classroom observation forms for instructional coaches are the perfect tool to help you record and reflect on what is happening in classrooms! Use these forms to document classroom management, behavior, student engagement, academic language, questioning, and more when you visit classrooms! The discussion questions help you guide a discussion with the teacher.
ZIP File | 49 pages
Build assessments with your PLCs with these simple tools! Whether you’re working on common formative assessments, end of year assessments, or trying to get teachers to create different types of tests and checks for student learning, this resource will help you!
PDF | 7 pages
Get your PLC teams together to learn about new methods and strategies! This resource gives you the tools you need to help your teachers become a true PLC: one that learns together and applies the learning into their classrooms
PDF | 16 pages
Teachers face so many challenges. Instructional coaches can leverage your PLCs to problem solve together! Identify a challenge or issue many teachers are facing. Then come together to figure out things that can be done in the classroom, the PLC team, and the school system to make change happen.
PDF | 6 pages
Get your PLC teams together to plan lessons and units! These simple tools help your teachers work together to create the best possible plans that meet their students’ needs.
PDF | 9 pages
Teachers face so many challenges. Leverage your PLCs to problem solve together! Identify a challenge or issue many teachers are facing. Then come together to figure out things that can be done in the classroom, the PLC team, and the school system to make change happen.
PDF | 8 pages
Review data and make an action plan with your PLCs with these simple tools! Whether you’re working on data for the first time or you already have your PLC systems in place, these PLC forms will help you create norms for looking at data together, collect and track your data, and make a plan for next steps!
PDF | 11 pages
Everything instructional coaches and administrators need to establish purposeful, effective PLCs. Get feedback from your teachers, look at student work, dig into data and make plans, create assessments, solve problems, plan together, engage in meaningful conversations, and so much more!
Zip File | 60 pages
These content building guides teach your teachers the essential things they need to know about reading concepts including genre, comprehension strategies, phonics, and more!
They work so well as a way to introduce new learning and get teachers talking about their background knowledge about topics during a PLC meeting. They’re also great for planning collaboratively and establishing shared knowledge and common language. 47 one page guides provide teachers with knowledge they need.
These cute notes can be emailed to show appreciation and praise for your teachers! Send them a little sunshine or a little positivity in challenging times. Positive notes, praise for lessons, and distance learning notes are included! Great for Teacher Appreciation and to spread some cheer.
Zip File
Save yourself hours of work with this Instructional Coach’s Professional Development Kit: Keynote and PowerPoint presentations, ice-breakers, surveys, planners, agendas, handouts, activities, and more- and it’s editable! Provide PD in a snap to your teachers.
Zip File | 136 pages
This resource is a large collection of professional development videos and handouts for instructional coaches made in partnership by Chrissy Beltran and Nicole S. Turner. As experts in the field of professional development and instructional coaching, these practitioners identified important topics for instructional coaches and created videos to instruct and guide coaches. Each PD video includes a handout and downloadable resources, forms, and tools that will help you do the things we teach. There are over 41 videos included in this resource! Videos range from 30-60 minutes.
PDF | 185 pages
Conduct purposeful PLCs with your teachers with this Instructional Coaching Professional Development Video! It’s the perfect way to set yourself up for coaching success! You can use this as a new coach, when you’re new to a school or district, or when you need a do-over!
PDF | 12 pages
Reading and writing across the curriculum: strategies and activities for content area reading and writing1
This teacher’s guide includes the instructions and printables for 18 different reading & writing strategies. Perfect for integrating reading and writing into math, science, and social studies lessons in grades 3-5!
Build content knowledge in your teacher teams with these Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different reading comprehension strategy and includes four different things teachers need to know when planning and teaching, important vocabulary, and common misconceptions. Perfect for instructional coaches to use to support teacher learning during PLC or collaborative planning.
Zip Files | 12 pages
Build content knowledge in your teacher teams with these Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different reading genre and includes four different things teachers need to know when planning and teaching, important vocabulary, and common misconceptions. Perfect for instructional coaches to use to support teacher learning during PLC.
Zip File | 20 pages
Teachers are under enormous amounts of stress and they are often asked to figure things out without the emotional support they need. This resource includes printable and digital tools and idea guides to help you give teachers the time they need to process challenging emotions and communicate about them.
Zip File | 54 pages