Resources for Teacher Leaders

Examining Mathematics Coaching (EMC) Project
Examining Mathematics Coaching (EMC) is a five-year research study investigating the types and depths of knowledge needed by effective instructional coaches in K-8 mathematics classrooms. This partnership-driven project, with funding by the NSF, includes principal researchers at Montana State University at Bozeman, in association with researchers at RMC Research Corporation in Denver.

Instructional Coaching: The Kansas Coaching Project

Drawing from lessons learned during nine years of research on coaching, KU-CRL offers Instructional Coaching Institutes to explore issues and ideas related to this popular and effective form of professional development.

Master Coaching Institute: Strategies that Boost Student Learning (July 12-16, 2010, New York, NY)
Specifically designed to provide educators with the strategies and skills they need to dramatically increase student achievement, find out what is required to move an entire school or district to perform at higher and more satisfying levels of professionalism. Lucy West and Susan Radley Brown will share the latest expert strategies, methods and insights to help participants learn the secrets of masterful coaching. Participants will learn how to: transform low performing school districts into high performing school districts; break through obstacles to help every student to reach high levels of success; discover the fastest, most powerful way to establish a collaborative learning community; and develop useful techniques, strategies, and protocols for working with a wide range of teachers in a variety of settings.

Mathematics Coaching/Specialist Resources (MCR) - University of Louisville (Louisville, KY)

The purpose of the Mathematics Coaching/Specialist Resources web page is to provide coaching and mathematics resources along with opportunities for networking for those engaged in instructional coaching in mathematics.

Mathematics Leadership Program - Education Development Center, Inc. (Newton, MA)
The Mathematics Leadership Program (MLP) provides coordinated professional development experiences for educational leaders with various roles and responsibilities. MLP workshops, retreats, and institutes are designed for teams of teachers, teacher leaders, math specialists, coaches, administrators, staff developers, and teacher educators. Individual programs can be designed to address the needs and interests of [schools/districts].

Mentoring and Coaching Resources for Teacher Leadership - Education Development Center, Inc. (Newton, MA)
This site provides resources for assisting or mentoring a colleague who may be new to teaching, the school, the discipline, or to a change in the practices or curriculum recently instituted by the district, school, or department.

The Mentoring Leadership and Resource Network (MLRN)
The Mentoring Leadership and Resource Network, better known as MLRN, is a grass roots effort started by a few educators and supported, in part as a network of the ASCD. Since 1991 MLRN has grown to become a international initiative. The goals of the network are: (1) to provide an organizational vehicle for a mentoring initiative, (2) to increase the knowledge base and general awareness of best practices in the mentoring and induction of new teachers by providing a variety of forums for those involved in mentoring to share their experiences with others, (3) to promote and provide effective training for new teacher mentors, (4) to establish mentoring of new teachers as the norm in schools, (5) to establish, through mentoring, the norms of collegiality, collaboration and continuous professional development in schools.

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