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Demonstrate a Commitment to Coaching

Essential Coaching Action 1 is to demonstrate a committment to coaching, including time and resources. The action includes creating effective structures for coaching. District leaders, principals, coaches and teachers build a shared understanding of their purpose for the mathematics coaching program and how they will collectively support the model.
  • Develop foundational elements (vision, beliefs)
  • Create coaching programs
  • Clarify the purpose of a math coach
  • Develop commitments to coaching through roles and responsibilities
Reproducible from NCSM Essential Action Series: Coaching in Mathematics Education to use as a reflection tool to assess current reality of coaching beliefs.
Reproducible from NCSM Essential Action Series: Coaching in Mathematics Education that lists all of the foundational elements and coaching essential actions.
Reproducible from NCSM Essential Action Series: Coaching in Mathematics Education that clarifies the roles and responsibilities for district leaders, principals, coaches, and teachers as part of a robust coaching program.
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Listen to Ashley Roberts, Secondary Math Specialist, Frederick County Public Schools, discuss making relationship building a priority helps build a positive, productive atmosphere. Read a brief summary of her story.
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The Framework for Leadership in Mathematics Education is the third book in the NCSM Essential Actions Series. Building on our previous work with The PRIME Leadership Framework: PRinciples and Indicators for Mathematics Education (NCSM, 2008) and It's TIME: Themes and Imperatives for Mathematics Education (NCSM, 2014), our new Essential Actions for bold mathematics education leadership focus around four guiding principles and four foundational elements of mathematics leadership. This hands-on resource details the essential actions for mathematics leadership.
School-based administrators wear many hats as the primary instructional leader to the students, teachers, and community they serve. The latest book from NCSM in the Essential Action Series is a go-to resource for principals as they work toward increasing mathematics learning for each and every learner. This hands-on resource details the essential actions for mathematics leadership.
This book is from the authors of Crucial Conversations and contaings insights and stories of how high-powered influensers from all walks of live have impacted the people in their lives. I contains strategies for making change inevitgable in your role as a mathematics leader.
A book about content coaching, this resource helps content area leaders by providing specific techniques, strategies, and tools for use in working with teachers in classrooms. This work involves planning, co-teaching, and reflection on lessons as well as facilitating professional discourse about teaching and learning.
A book which provides insight to leaders. The book uses research, stories, and examples to encourage leaders to be brave and lead with courage.
Boaler fuses research on mathematics education, growth mindset, and brain research into a coherent set of discussions and recommendations for how to change the way we teach and learn mathematics.
Onward tackles the problem of educator stress, and provides a practical framework for taking the burnout out of teaching. Stress is part of the job, but when 70 percent of teachers quit within their first five years because the stress is making them physically and mentally ill, things have gone too far. Unsurprisingly, these effects are highest in difficult-to-fill positions such as math, science, and foreign languages, and in urban areas and secondary classrooms―places where we need our teachers to be especially motivated and engaged. This book offers a path to resiliency to help teachers weather the storms and bounce back―and work toward banishing the rain for good.
Read a personal story from Sandy Barrett, Elementary Math Coach, Cossatot River School District, on how she helps supply classrooms with the tools needed to effectively teach math concepts. Read to find out why the teachers did not use them and how the problem was solved.
Kim Romain, Math Instructional Facilitator, Little Rock School District shares a story about how one conversation began a positive working relationship between a reluctant principal and a district math facilitator.