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Kings Local instructional coaches outline curriculum work, personalized learning and teacher coaching cycles
Summary
Three instructional coaches presented a year-two review of coaching, curriculum alignment, adoption plans for Wit & Wisdom ELA, math-focused units, personalized learning cohorts and new-teacher supports at the Kings Local Schools work session.
Three Kings Local instructional coaches gave the school board an overview of year-two coaching work and next steps, emphasizing job-embedded professional development and curriculum alignment.
The coaches told the board that their primary goal is to support teachers’ professional growth so students’ learning is maximized, centering their work on the district’s culture blueprint, personalized learning and the district’s “power 5” instructional practices.
Coaches Andrea (Instructional Coach), Erin (Instructional Coach) and Tracy (Instructional Coach) described multiple curriculum projects and professional-development strategies they said produced measurable classroom changes this year. They cited work in elementary gifted and general math (fourth- and fifth-grade units focused on fractions), a K–12 ELA vertical-alignment project, cohorts for personalized learning and a new-teacher academy.
"The best professional development is job-embedded professional development with teachers who willingly set goals and seek feedback,"…
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