Design Principles for Improving Teaching Practice with Instructional Coaching. Design Principles Brief #20: Teacher Preparation and Professional Learning

The EdResearch for Action "Design Principles Series" focuses on a single program or practice that has been proven to have positive effects on student outcomes. The series helps practitioners adapt and successfully implement an evidence-based program to meet the needs of their target population. This brief provides the evidence base to make the case for instructional coaching and discusses who the best candidates to coach and to be coached are; what effective coaches do; and what supports coaches need to be successful.