Coaching Strategies

SPDG Directors' Webinar: Supporting Secondary Teachers’ Implementation of Evidence-Based Literacy Practices Using an Adaptive Intervention Coaching Model 

This session focuses on an adaptive intervention coaching model, AIM Coaching. AIM Coaching was designed to provide coaches with systematic guidance on how to use teacher skill and will data to support teachers' school-wide implementation of a set of evidence-based comprehension building practices (i.e., PACT Plus) in middle schools. AIM Coaching has been implemented in two federally funded grants and has evidence of promise for improving teacher and student outcomes.

Fidelity Friday--Integrated MTSS (I-MTSS) and Systems Coaching

This session focused on recent developments in measuring two educational innovations: Integrated MTSS (I-MTSS) and systems coaching. As I-MTSS research continues to grow, schools across the country have become more aware of this evolution of MTSS. Dr. Pierce shared implementation bright spots and common challenges schools have faced in implementing I-MTSS with fidelity. She also summarized approaches to measuring systems coaching, highlighting one state’s effort to develop and use a systems coaching fidelity measure.