Student-Focused Coaching: The Instructional Coach's Guide to Supporting Student Success Through Teacher Collaboration

A widely used, highly effective approach to student success, Student-Focused Coaching (SFC) helps instructional coaches and teachers work collaboratively to improve student outcomes using evidence-based practices. This is your one-stop, step-by-step guide to instructional coaching in K–12 schools using the field-tested, research-based SFC model.

Featuring a foreword by Jim Knight, the leading voice on instructional coaching, this book was coauthored by the lead developer of the SFC model (Jan Hasbrouck) and an experienced instructional coach and trainer (Daryl Michel). These expert authors help you master the three key roles of coaching: Facilitator, Collaborative Problem-Solver, and Teacher/Learner. You’ll discover how to build respectful and mutually beneficial professional relationships with every teacher—from the most eager to the most reluctant—and work together to help all students learn and thrive in the classroom. To help you put the SFC model into action, the book offers practical activities and materials, including application exercises, reflection exercises, virtual coaching tips, and 20+ pages of ready-to-use downloadable forms.

Learn how to:

• Partner with teachers to tackle a range of classroom challenges—academic, behavioral, and social-emotional
• Develop collaborative communication skills to help you navigate even the most challenging conversations
• Work with teachers to set and achieve goals by identifying, selecting, and implementing evidence-based interventions
• Help teachers support struggling students with goal-based, targeted, and intensive instruction
• Improve time management skills using a four-step, systematic problem-solving process
• Collect different types of data and use it to give helpful feedback to the teachers you work with
• Design continuous professional learning opportunities that meet individual teacher needs
• Deliver support to administrators to make the most of the benefits coaches can provide

Practical downloads. The book includes access to 20+ pages of downloadable materials for coaches, including worksheets, checklists, tracking sheets, and self-assessments.

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Table of Contents

About the Online Materials

About the Authors

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1 Overview of Coaching

Chapter 2 Getting Started as a SFC Coach

Chapter 3 The Facilitator Role

Chapter 4 Communicating for Collaboration

Chapter 5 Managing Time

Chapter 6 The Collaborative Problem Solver Role & the SFC Collaborative Problem-Solving Process

Chapter 7 Team Problem-Solving Process

Chapter 8 Gathering Information for Problem Solving

Chapter 9 Developing, Supporting, and Evaluating Effective Interventions

Chapter 10 The Teacher/Learner Role – Designing and Providing Effective Professional Learning

Chapter 11 Delivering Effective Instruction and Intervention

Chapter 12 Working with Administrator Partners

Resources

Index

"This text will be the coach for coaches! It contains a wealth of information and guidance to raise the bar on collaboration models in our schools"
- Deb Glaser, The Reading Teacher's Top Ten Tools

"Hasbrouck & Michel provide guidelines to support teachers to implement effective research-based instructional practices and improve student achievement. When coaches, school leaders and teachers apply the principles of student-focused coaching, student outcomes improve. Communication strategies, virtual coaching tips, reflections, and application exercises engage the reader and ensure the coaching relationship is collaborative and productive. A must for any educator who wants to be the best they can be."
- Martha Hougen, author of Fundamentals of Literacy Instruction & Assessment, Pre-K–6, Second Edition and The Fundamentals of Literacy Assessment & Instruction, 6–12

"Practical, reflective, and with razor-sharp focus on student outcomes, Hasbrouck and Michel weave just the right amount of research and theory into this easy-to-access, indispensable coaching resource. A must-read for coaches and the administrators who support them."
- Carol Tolman, Co-Author with Dr. Louisa Moats of LETRS, 3rd ed. (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling)

"This book is an incredibly practical and interactive resource for any instructional Coach, whether or not they are new in their role, a seasoned veteran or anywhere in-between. The focus on maximizing teacher effectiveness in order to increase student success is critical and this book is an invaluable resource that coaches will reach for again and again!""
- Molly Alcantar, Instructional Coach, Washington Elementary School, Vancouver Public Schools