The Art of Coaching

by Elena Aguilar

  Two-column note taker

  U

  Unit planning

  Unmonitored beliefs

  V

  Validation

  Values, core

  Victim story

  Videotaping

  Vision, for coaching

  Visual activities

  Visualization

  Vygotsky, Lev

  W

  Wait time

  Webs, of belief

  Weissglass, Julian

  Wheatley, Margaret

  “Where Do We Go from Here?”

  Whole-school transformation

  “Why bother?” story

  Words, worlds created by

  Work plan: challenges and helpful responses; coaching agreement and; coaching areas identified in; coach's goals in; conversations about; criteria identified in; data for; development of; high-leverage activities identified in; learning broken down in; lenses for; note taking and; presented and celebrated; principals and; progress indicators determined in; resources compiled in; reviewed; role of; sample; SMARTE goals in; standards identified in; steps of; for teachers; theories of action in; trust assessment and; use of

  Writing

  Z

  Zohar, Danah

  Zone of proximal development (ZPD); activities and; defined; strategic actions and

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Elena Aguilar is a teacher, coach, and consultant with more than 20 years of experience working in schools. She has taught Grades 2–10 and has a particular love for middle school students. She has been an instructional coach, a leadership coach, and a central office administrator.

  Elena is the founder of Elena Aguilar Consulting (www.elenaaguilar.com). She and her associates facilitate professional development for coaches, teachers, and administrators in public, charter, and private schools across the United States. Elena also consults with districts that are developing a coaching program and with leaders engaging in transformational change. She continues to coach school leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area.

  Elena is also the author of The Art of Coaching Teams: Building Resilient Communities that Transform Schools (Jossey-Bass, 2016). She has been a frequent writer for Edutopia since 2008 and writes a blog on EdWeek Teacher for coaches. Elena lives in Oakland, California, with her husband and son.

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