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[quote=Anonymous]"Joyce and Showers' work landed on the long reading list that Maggie Slye drafted after being tapped to retool Washington's coaching program.

Slye, who has since become vice principal at Tubman Elementary School in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of the city, says that with Common Core coming, the District wanted to get more "bang for our buck."

In 2011, Slye devised the new coaching program around a few core principles she saw as essential to good teacher training: It should be provided by an expert who knows what good teaching looks like, it should be ongoing so that a teacher gets training multiple times, and it should be tailored to each teacher's needs.

While the specifics look different at every school, each coach typically works with eight to 10 teachers for six-week periods. The cycles start with a teacher and coach coming up with specific goals and plans. The coach then spends the next six weeks sitting in on the teacher's classes, discussing what worked and didn't work, and then helping the teacher plan his or her next lesson. How much one-on-one coaching a coach does varies greatly by school and teacher. In some cases, a coach is visiting a teacher's class multiple times a week, while in some schools, coaches are doing more group sessions with sets of teachers."[/quote]

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