Evaluating Instructional Coaching People, Programs, and Partnership

Evaluating Instructional Coaching addresses the longstanding concern among school administrators about how best to evaluate instructional coaches as employees and how to evaluate overall instructional coaching programs. In this book, we examine evaluating coaching according to research-based best coaching practice and best human resources practice. We provide resources and processes to aid leaders in skillfully designing evaluation processes that ensure that coaching has the greatest positive impact that it can on students and that foster positive professional cultures in schools. The book also addresses how to recruit and hire the best coaches as well as how to retain people in those roles and sustain effective coaching programs.