Expand Your Coaching Toolbox! (20 Practical Strategies That Improve Teaching and Learning)

"This is the book coaches will dog-ear." —Becca Silver, founder and CEO, The Whole Educator

Free yourself and your school from rigid 90-day coaching cycles with this flexible, differentiated approach!

Who says a formal coaching cycle is the only way to increase teacher effectiveness and boost student outcomes? In this highly actionable guide, author Chrissy Beltran presents coaches and instructional leaders with 20 a la carte strategies to better meet K–12 teachers where they are and foster their professional growth. A coach herself, Beltran knows the position’s challenges and addresses them with candor—tricky issues like teacher skepticism, miscommunication, role ambiguity, and time scarcity. The strategies she shares in Expand Your Coaching Toolbox! are grounded in the reality of school life, research-backed, and organized into a practical, three-tiered structure:

• Strategies to build a coaching relationship: Resource recommendations, simple pop-ins, and other low-investment ways to connect with teachers one-on-one and establish trust.
• Strategies to build professional knowledge and alignment: Targeted collaboration behind the scenes, including co-developing a classroom management plan; analyzing student work together; and co-creating effective lessons, assignments, and assessments.
• Strategies to build classroom skills: High-impact, hands-on work like lesson modeling, co-teaching, and colleague visits to help teachers translate new learning into confident practice.

Each strategy comes with step-by-step instructions along with real-world examples, next-step options, and possible modifications. You'll also find more than dozen reproducible templates to support consistent implementation and follow-through.