Carol Chanter

The Coaching Partnership provides educators with aunique approach to instructional coaching centered onreciprocal accountability for continuous improvement. With this essential resource, teachers, coaches, mentors, and administrators will have the guidanceand tools they need to implement a collaborativecoaching system-one that will improve instructionand maximize student learning in their schools. This accessible guide also contains real-life vignettes, coaching-in-action videos, ideas for productivepartnerships, reflective practice questions, and aplanning tool that helps each member of the coachingteam reflect, collaborate, and take purposeful, immediate action-all with the goal of creating alearning environment where students thrive.

The Coaching Partnership is a systematic approach to continually develop expertise of the administrators, coaches, mentors, and teachers. Through practical application of research-based strategies, inquiry based coaching, and generative thinking all partners will enhance their effectiveness, resulting in improved student achievement. Individual improvement, school improvement, and school district improvement can occur with implementation of the concepts.