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Professional development resources for instructional coaches and school leaders. Lead engaging, purposeful PD with ready-made toolkits, slide shows, Little Box of PD strategy kits, videos, and handouts that teachers can take straight back to their classrooms.
Instructional coaches always need input from teachers! Whether that’s feedback on a professional development session, ideas for goals for coaching cycles, input on the impact of coaching work, reflecting on school systems, or anything else, this resource will help you get the information you need to reflect and make a plan.
Zip File | 28 + 19 Google Forms
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
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
Trying to get teachers to talk during PLC and Professional Development? These discussion dice will do the trick! Each dice has six thought-provoking sentence starters for teachers to use to respond to learning, data, observations, reflections, and other teacher discussions! Perfect for instructional coaches or administrators.
PDF | 28 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
Build a strong foundation for instructional coaching with this 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
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
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
Building staff morale is even more challenging in this difficult time of distance learning. To have a little fun with your teachers, use these Challenge BINGO boards! Choose one of the pre-created boards, or use one of the editable boards to build your own. Email it or upload it to Google Drive or OneDrive. Teachers download the board, color it in, or use stickers to mark off which blocks they have completed. They turn it in by the date you set. You can choose a winner, or acknowledge everyone who participated with the included Google Slides!
Zip File | 23 pages
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 component of informational or nonfiction text 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.
PDF | 8 pages
Build SOR knowledge in your teacher teams with these Skilled Reading Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different component of Scarborough’s Reading Rope 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.
PDF | 14 pages
Build content knowledge in your teacher teams with these Content Building Guides! Each page focuses on a different component of fiction 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 File | 11 pages
Coach resistant teachers and change your coaching relationships with teachers who have not with this Instructional Coaching Professional Development Video! This is a recording of a live session that I gave, so I do interact with and respond to questions from the live participants.
PDF | 8 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
If you are trying to start teaching anti-racism and respect for diversity in your classroom, this free download is a good place to start.
PDF | 3 pages
Make planning your next reading PD a breeze with these pre-made sorting activities! These hands on activities are perfect for professional development in the area of literacy! Engage your teachers in real discussions about syllable types, spelling patterns, phonemic awareness and phonics vocabulary with these card sorting activities! Answer keys are included for each sort.
Zip File | 17 pages
Make planning your next reading PD a breeze with these pre-made sorting activities! These hands on activities are perfect for professional development or PLCs about literacy. Engage your teachers in real discussions about the components of reading, reading strategies, reader’s workshop vocabulary, genre, and more with these card sorting activities! Answer keys are included for each sort.
Zip File | 40 pages
This writing genre characteristics sort can help students distinguish between the elements of narrative writing and expository writing. I have used this sort in teacher trainings as well in order to help teachers differentiate between these genres as well.
PDF | 3 pages
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 | 36 pages
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
