Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves

Diane Sweeney and Leanna Harris’ unique approach to coaching is grounded in the belief that coaching conversations must focus, above all, on student outcomes. Such conversations are grounded in content standards (or, in the case of ELs, content and language proficiency standards) with the goal of guiding students to mastery of standards. This was a major departure from popular models of coaching that focused on coach-teacher relationships or more "teacher-centered" approaches that focused on what teachers are or are not doing This book provides a more-fine grained analysis specific coaching "moves" that are used by coaches before, during, and after the delivery of lessons. The authors present a practical vision of what it looks like to engage in student-centered coaching across a rich array of contexts. Links to original video clips depicting and analyzing coaching moves can be accessed via QR codes in the margins of the book.