Coaching to Empower Teachers: A Framework for Improving Instruction and Well-Being - Paperback

by Catherine Hart (Author), Fredrica Nash (Author)

Learn how to make instructional coaching more empowering and effective by supporting teachers as learners and leaders in their own classrooms. This unique book offers a powerful assets-based coaching framework that capitalizes on teachers' strengths, internal motivation, and professional goals.

Author Biography

Catherine Pendleton Hart, MEd and Fredrica M. Nash, MAT collectively have 18 years of experience as teachers and 16 years of experience as instructional coaches and education consultants. Currently an Education Consultant at RTI International, Catherine is a former high school English teacher. Her current instructional coaching work focuses on topics such as integrating SEL and rigor, planning for inquiry-based learning, and using competency-based assessments. Her work also includes developing teacher leaders and instructional coaches and supporting RTI's Aspire Teacher Preparation Program, an alternative program for teacher licensure. Fredrica is also currently an Education Consultant at RTI and is a former high school science teacher. Her coaching work covers a variety of topics and audiences-- from developing instructional coaching programs, to coaching teachers, to supporting executive coaches in schools, districts, and state agencies. Her coaching is driven by her work in social and emotional learning, social justice pedagogies, and teacher empowerment.