Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves: The Moves

Preparing for my new job as an instructional coach. This book gave me practical advice.

I was looking for a book that provides basic information about coaching teachers. This was helpful! I appreciated the examples, dialogue, and helpful tips. As someone (thinking about) getting started in a new role in education, this was a good place to start!

This book shows you how to coach successfully with the students in mind! It gives very simple and wise insight into instructional coaching. I will always refer to this book!

For me this was a page turner. I loved how it was broken down into chunk to explicitly tell the move, tell why it’s helpful, and how to implement it. I also loved the videos and forms embedded through the book. The scenarios felt familiar and I think that truly helped this book be something different. I really couldn’t put this book down.

Valuable ideas

The first part of the book is great, and I learned a lot. The last quarter is repetitive. I don't agree with the authors' idea that co-teaching is always the way to coach. In my experience, a coach has to look at their audience and sometimes modeling is more appropriate.

The gold standard for Coaching. This book that embeds the important features of cognitive coaching with the key focal point of supporting students' understanding of instructional standards through goal setting, coplanning learning targets, coaching conversations, co-teaching, and continued follow-up.

My book arrived as promise in excellent condition. Can’t wait to. Crack it open and start reading!