Coaching for Impact

A Guide to What Works Best in Instruction
Douglas Fisher - San Diego State University, USA
Nancy Frey - San Diego State University, USA
Tyler Gilbert - Fresno Unified Schools
Emily Brokaw
John T. Almarode - James Madison University, USA
Coaching for Impact
July 2025 | 224 pages | Corwin
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Build a sustainable coaching model that drives growth and results

Instructional coaching has long been a crucial component of professional development in schools. However, without a clear framework, its true potential often goes unrealized. Coaching for Impact bridges this gap by providing a research-supported, practical guide that enhances the effectiveness of coaching programs while helping coaches transform theory into measurable results.

Centered around an innovative set of "Impact Rubrics," this comprehensive flipbook offers a structured pathway for elevating coaching practices. Whether you’re an experienced instructional coach or just beginning your journey, this book equips you with actionable tools, proven strategies, and a vision to foster teacher learning and maximize student success. Inside you’ll find:

  • Impact Rubrics, frameworks in each chapter to make coaching visible, actionable, and aligned with teacher growth and student outcomes
  • Step-by-step guidance for building relationships, collecting evidence, and creating goal-oriented coaching plans
  • Research-driven content highlighting how coaching supports effective teaching and sustainable learning practices
  • A holistic approach with strategies to develop trust, foster communication, and align coaching with broader district and school goals

By using Coaching for Impact, coaches will gain the skills to cultivate sustainable coaching models that promote both teacher and student success. If you’re ready to sharpen your focus, refine your strategies, and unlock the full potential of instructional coaching, this book is your indispensable guide.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction

  • Impact Rubrics
  • How to Use the Coaching for Impact Flipbook
  • Coaching Misconceptions

Section 1: Teacher Coaching

  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Why Coaching?
  • 2: Defining Instructional Coaching
  • 3: Visible Learning+: Instructional Coaching
  • 4: Principles of Teacher Learning
  • 5: Diminishing the Impact of Coaching

Section 2: Coaching for Impact

  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Models of Instructional Coaching
  • 2: Changing Teacher Practices and Beliefs
  • 3: Coaching for Impact: A Model That Works

Section 3: Coaching Foundations

  • Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
  • 1: The Importance of Trust

Section 4: Coaching Skills

  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Coaching Through Conversations

Section 5: Clarifying Coaching Goals

  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Initiating Coaching
  • 2: Coaching for Different Levels of Teacher Learning
  • 3: Establishing Context
  • 4: Creating Coaching Goals
  • 5: Strategic Enrichments

Section 6: Generate Evidence for Learning

  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Conversation Maps
  • 2: Fostering Teacher Expertise Through Learning
  • 3: Follow-Up

Section 7: Sustaining Coaching for Impact

  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Aligning Coaches and Administrators
  • 2: Creating Systems for Coaching
  • 3: Facilitating Coaches’ Learning
  • 4: Meta-Coaching
  • 5: Evaluating Coaching for Impact
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index

Description

Build a sustainable coaching model that drives growth and results

Instructional coaching has long been a crucial component of professional development in schools. However, without a clear framework, its true potential often goes unrealized. Coaching for Impact bridges this gap by providing a research-supported, practical guide that enhances the effectiveness of coaching programs while helping coaches transform theory into measurable results.

Centered around an innovative set of "Impact Rubrics," this comprehensive flipbook offers a structured pathway for elevating coaching practices. Whether you’re an experienced instructional coach or just beginning your journey, this book equips you with actionable tools, proven strategies, and a vision to foster teacher learning and maximize student success. Inside you’ll find:

  • Impact Rubrics, frameworks in each chapter to make coaching visible, actionable, and aligned with teacher growth and student outcomes
  • Step-by-step guidance for building relationships, collecting evidence, and creating goal-oriented coaching plans
  • Research-driven content highlighting how coaching supports effective teaching and sustainable learning practices
  • A holistic approach with strategies to develop trust, foster communication, and align coaching with broader district and school goals

By using Coaching for Impact, coaches will gain the skills to cultivate sustainable coaching models that promote both teacher and student success. If you’re ready to sharpen your focus, refine your strategies, and unlock the full potential of instructional coaching, this book is your indispensable guide.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

Introduction

  • Impact Rubrics
  • How to Use the Coaching for Impact Flipbook
  • Coaching Misconceptions

Section 1: Teacher Coaching

  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Why Coaching?
  • 2: Defining Instructional Coaching
  • 3: Visible Learning+: Instructional Coaching
  • 4: Principles of Teacher Learning
  • 5: Diminishing the Impact of Coaching

Section 2: Coaching for Impact

  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Models of Instructional Coaching
  • 2: Changing Teacher Practices and Beliefs
  • 3: Coaching for Impact: A Model That Works

Section 3: Coaching Foundations

  • Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
  • 1: The Importance of Trust

Section 4: Coaching Skills

  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Coaching Through Conversations

Section 5: Clarifying Coaching Goals

  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Initiating Coaching
  • 2: Coaching for Different Levels of Teacher Learning
  • 3: Establishing Context
  • 4: Creating Coaching Goals
  • 5: Strategic Enrichments

Section 6: Generate Evidence for Learning

  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Conversation Maps
  • 2: Fostering Teacher Expertise Through Learning
  • 3: Follow-Up

Section 7: Sustaining Coaching for Impact

  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Aligning Coaches and Administrators
  • 2: Creating Systems for Coaching
  • 3: Facilitating Coaches’ Learning
  • 4: Meta-Coaching
  • 5: Evaluating Coaching for Impact
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index

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Coaching for Impact

A Guide to What Works Best in Instruction

Douglas Fisher , Nancy Frey , Tyler Gilbert , Emily Brokaw , John T. Almarode
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Build a sustainable coaching model that drives growth and results

Instructional coaching has long been a crucial component of professional development in schools. However, without a clear framework, its true potential often goes unrealized. Coaching for Impact bridges this gap by providing a research-supported, practical guide that enhances the effectiveness of coaching programs while helping coaches transform theory into measurable results.

Centered around an innovative set of "Impact Rubrics," this comprehensive flipbook offers a structured pathway for elevating coaching practices. Whether you’re an experienced instructional coach or just beginning your journey, this book equips you with actionable tools, proven strategies, and a vision to foster teacher learning and maximize student success. Inside you’ll find:

  • Impact Rubrics, frameworks in each chapter to make coaching visible, actionable, and aligned with teacher growth and student outcomes
  • Step-by-step guidance for building relationships, collecting evidence, and creating goal-oriented coaching plans
  • Research-driven content highlighting how coaching supports effective teaching and sustainable learning practices
  • A holistic approach with strategies to develop trust, foster communication, and align coaching with broader district and school goals

By using Coaching for Impact, coaches will gain the skills to cultivate sustainable coaching models that promote both teacher and student success. If you’re ready to sharpen your focus, refine your strategies, and unlock the full potential of instructional coaching, this book is your indispensable guide.


Table Of Contents:

  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Introduction
  • Impact Rubrics
  • How to Use the Coaching for Impact Flipbook
  • Coaching Misconceptions
  • Section 1: Teacher Coaching
  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Why Coaching?
  • 2: Defining Instructional Coaching
  • 3: Visible Learning+: Instructional Coaching
  • 4: Principles of Teacher Learning
  • 5: Diminishing the Impact of Coaching
  • Section 2: Coaching for Impact
  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Models of Instructional Coaching
  • 2: Changing Teacher Practices and Beliefs
  • 3: Coaching for Impact: A Model That Works
  • Section 3: Coaching Foundations
  • Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
  • 1: The Importance of Trust
  • Section 4: Coaching Skills
  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Coaching Through Conversations
  • Section 5: Clarifying Coaching Goals
  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Initiating Coaching
  • 2: Coaching for Different Levels of Teacher Learning
  • 3: Establishing Context
  • 4: Creating Coaching Goals
  • 5: Strategic Enrichments
  • Section 6: Generate Evidence for Learning
  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Conversation Maps
  • 2: Fostering Teacher Expertise Through Learning
  • 3: Follow-Up
  • Section 7: Sustaining Coaching for Impact
  • Learning Intention and Success Criteria
  • 1: Aligning Coaches and Administrators
  • 2: Creating Systems for Coaching
  • 3: Facilitating Coaches’ Learning
  • 4: Meta-Coaching
  • 5: Evaluating Coaching for Impact
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index

Recent Product Reviews:

Instructional coaching significantly accelerates the transfer and implementation of what works best in teaching and learning, so learning and applying what works best in instructional coaching makes sense. Anchored with key coaching concepts followed by actionable tools and rubrics, this resource illuminates clear pathways for successful coaching that accelerate teacher and student learning!
Dr. Angela Lyon Hinton, Spartanburg School District Two
Coaching for Impact brings clarity to the very complex system of instructional coaching. Whether you are first implementing a coaching model or sustaining one, the rubrics in this book are invaluable in refining your process and measuring your progress. We implemented a coaching model in our district 5 years ago and while we have highly skilled coaches, we have systems that inhibit their ability to coach. We'll be using these rubrics to assess our systems and help to build a stronger culture of coaching.
Shelli Hart, Coordinator of Educator Development for Santa Maria-Bonita School District
This flipbook is an invaluable resource for coaches, offering research-driven approaches to elevate practices. Featuring insightful videos and informative text, it highlights exceptional coaching practices and reflective rubrics to strengthen performance. Whether refining techniques or expanding professional knowledge, this guide is essential to enrich coaching practices.
Julie Baye, Supervisor of Mentoring and Coaching, Loudoun County Public Schools
Coaching for Impact: A Guide to Instructional Coaching is a comprehensive, well-organized, and empowering resource that brings much-needed clarity and structure to the coaching process. It makes coaching practices visible, actionable, and measurable by aligning them with the principles of Visible Learning. One of the book’s most valuable features is its consistent breakdown of topics into “What it is,” “Why it’s important,” and “What the research says,” paired with clear key indicators that guide implementation. The flipbook format and impact rubrics are incredibly useful tools that help keep coaching focused, transparent, and easy to apply in real-world settings. This resource is perfect for both instructional coaches and those who support and develop them—it’s practical, all in one place, and exactly what I’ve been looking for. I highly recommend it and can’t wait to start using it with the coaches in my district.
Rhonda S. Hewitt, Instructional Coordinator, Office of Teaching and Learning, Mat-Su Borough School District

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