Table of contents - Special Issue: Coaching and Mentoring for School Improvement
Guest Editors: Chad R. Lochmiller
Contextual coaching: levering and leading school improvement through collaborative professionalism
Trista Hollweck, Rachel M. LofthouseThe research examines how contextual coaching (Gorrell and Hoover, 2009; Valentine, 2019) can act as a lever to build collaborative professionalism (Hargreaves and O'Connor, 2018…
Representing teacher coaching sessions: understanding coaching that develops teachers' capability to design for learning
Steven Kickbusch, Nick KellyThe purpose of this paper is to develop representations for teacher coaching sessions that are (1) useful for communicating the session to other coaches or researchers and (2…
Instructional coaches' framing of a mathematics reform
Joanna Higgins, Ro ParsonsInstructional coaches are pivotal to articulating the agenda of system-wide reform, yet their role remains largely unexamined. Their approach with educators is contextually…
How does coaching influence teacher implementation of a science programme? Evidence from an experimental study
Melina Furman, Mariana Luzuriaga, Inés Taylor, María Eugenia PodestáThe study aimed to understand the effect of instructional coaching on teachers' implementation of a science teaching improvement programme and whether it varies in schools of…
Obligatory coaching in the context of the model project “Talent Schools”: a means for educational equity and improvement of achievement outcomes?
Isabel Dean, Laura Beckmann, Kathrin Racherbäumer, Nina BremmIn the present study, we assessed how school improvement consultants, as part of a six-year model project conducted in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, were perceived by school…
“I thought I was prepared to do this”: an exploration of the learning and development of leadership coaches
Kristin Shawn Huggins, Hans W. Klar, Parker M. AndreoliThe purpose of this paper was to determine what experienced school leaders learned through participating in a three-year leadership initiative, called the Leadership Learning…
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