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Spaulding (educational research and program evaluation, College of Saint Rose) and Smith, a consultant and mentor for instructional coaches and former teacher, principal, and superintendent, draw on their research on 13 instructional coaches in low-performing elementary schools to show instructional coaches and district administrators, principals, and school leaders how to integrate coaches into a school through a team approach that involves the principal and school staff, to help teachers improve their practice. They use a journaling approach to describe the perspective of these stakeholders, as they discuss the first day as an instructional coach and establishing an instructional leadership team, job description, role and responsibilities, and action plan; how the team works and how it can identify areas needing improvement in the school; how to carry out the team's plan and use data to make decisions; strategies for identifying exemplary teaching practices; working with teachers and resistant teachers; changing teacher practices building-wide and through classroom field-testing; training new coaches; and examples of surveys, protocols, and tools. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
