Coaching for Significant and Sustained Change in the Classroom
This practical book leads instructional coaches and administrators through the process of building a strong solution-focused instructional coaching program that drives significant schoolwide change, improves teacher performance, and supports student success.
A 5-Step Instructional Coaching Model for Making Real Improvements
Keeping educators’ skills sharp in a constantly changing world can be a challenge. But instructional coaching provides a focused, one-on-one plan for improving professional practice and teacher performance. In Coaching for Significant and Sustained Change in the Classroom, author Tom Roy shows coaches and administrators how to build strong solution-focused coaching programs and create positive change using a five-step instructional coaching model.

Move beyond teacher evaluations and classroom observations to establish a defined coaching program:
- Understand that changes in instructional practices are needed to overcome the challenges today’s teachers face.
- Learn what successful instructional coaching looks like and why coaching is the solution to getting effective professional development in the classroom.
- Study the five steps of the coaching cycle for teachers, and explore time-proven coaching methods and strategies.
- Measure the effectiveness of your current program by reviewing the elements of instructional coach training programs that lead to increased teacher performance and student success.
- Receive tools and forms to help guide the coaching cycle, including teacher reflection, support, and peer coaching, as well as respond to professional development needs.
Additional Information
Product Code: BKL038
ISBN: 9781943360154
Page Count: 144
“Dr. Roy’s book, Coaching for Significant and Sustained Change in the Classroom, is an invaluable resource and tool for all instructional coaches. The book provides many strategies, techniques, and examples that help build capacity for the effective collaboration, discourse, and leadership skills needed by all coaches. Whether you need guidance on effective coaching cycles or how to have successful peer coaching conversations, this book is for you.”
Reproducibles
These reproducibles include handouts to copy and share, as well as forms you can fill in electronically.