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Coaching for Impact

A Guide to What Works Best in Instruction

By: Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, Tyler Gilbert, Emily Brokaw, John Taylor Almarode

Fisher/Frey Imprint
Includes 30+ Videos

Coaching for Impact is your practical, research-based guide to increase the effectiveness of instructional coaching and drive lasting teacher and student growth.

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781071904060
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2025
Page Count: 216
Publication date: August 19, 2025

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Build a sustainable coaching model that drives growth and results

Instructional coaching has long been a crucial component of professional development in schools. However, without a clear framework, its true potential often goes unrealized. Coaching for Impact bridges this gap by providing a research-supported, practical guide that enhances the effectiveness of coaching programs while helping coaches transform theory into measurable results.

Centered around an innovative set of "Impact Rubrics," this comprehensive flipbook offers a structured pathway for elevating coaching practices. Whether you’re an experienced instructional coach or just beginning your journey, this book equips you with actionable tools, proven strategies, and a vision to foster teacher learning and maximize student success. Inside you’ll find:

Impact Rubrics, frameworks in each chapter to make coaching visible, actionable, and aligned with teacher growth and student outcomes
Step-by-step guidance for building relationships, collecting evidence, and creating goal-oriented coaching plans
Research-driven content highlighting how coaching supports effective teaching and sustainable learning practices
A holistic approach with strategies to develop trust, foster communication, and align coaching with broader district and school goals

By using Coaching for Impact, coaches will gain the skills to cultivate sustainable coaching models that promote both teacher and student success. If you’re ready to sharpen your focus, refine your strategies, and unlock the full potential of instructional coaching, this book is your indispensable guide.

Key features

The core of this flipbook is driven by the impact rubrics, which are included at the end of each section of the book. Impact rubrics help make coaching visible, which not only allows us to see our coaching through the eyes of teachers, but also helps teachers become drivers of their own professional learning. The rubrics we have shared are not just checkpoints; they’re the foundation of Coaching for Impact, and they serve as the compass and the anchor for every step in the coaching journey. Each rubric is a well-calibrated lens through which leaders, coaches, and coaches can assess, refine, and elevate the practices, which can lead to meaningful, measurable change.

Author(s)

Douglas Fisher

Douglas Fisher is professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Previously, Doug was an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is a credentialed English teacher and administrator in California. In 2022, he was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame by the Literacy Research Association. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, differentiated instruction, and curriculum design, as well as books such as The Teacher Clarity Playbook 2/e, Your Introduction to PLC+, The Illustrated Guide to Teacher Credibility, The Teaching Reading Playbook, and Welcome to Teaching!.

Nancy Frey

Nancy Frey is a Professor in Educational Leadership at San Diego State and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. She is a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California. She is a member of the International Literacy Association’s Literacy Research Panel. Her published titles include The Illustrated Guide to Visible Learning, Welcome to Teaching Multilingual Learners, Teaching Foundational Skills to Adolescent Readers, and RIGOR Unveiled: A Video-Enhanced Flipbook to Promote Teacher Expertise in Relationship Building, Instruction, Goals, Organization, and Relevance.

Tyler Gilbert

Tyler Wayne Gilbert is an Instructional Coach for a large Central Valley of California district, an education consultant, and a San Diego State University doctoral student pursuing an Ed.D in Educational Leadership. He is dedicated to helping all learners feel seen, heard, valued, and, most importantly, noticed through research-backed practices and intentional instructional design. Tyler was a former elementary educator. He currently supports sites, leaders, individual teachers, professional learning communities, instructional leadership teams, and climate and culture teams. He is also a member of a personalized learning initiative. Tyler loves being an educator and aspires to share that passion with others.

Emily Brokaw

Emily Brokaw is a Campus Coordinator in Dallas, Texas where she leads her campus's work with Assessment for Learning and helps to create the conditions for all students to become lifelong learners! Prior to this role, she was a High School Social Studies teacher for six years. She has a Masters in the Art of Teaching from Texas A&M University-Commerce and is currently pursuing a Masters in Urban Educational Leadership from SMU. Emily has also authored blog posts on Corwin Connect: Corwin Connect: Empowering Students as Questioners-A High School's Journey.

John Taylor Almarode

Dr. John Almarode is a bestselling author and an Associate Professor of Education at James Madison University. He was awarded the inaugural Sarah Miller Luck Endowed Professorship in 2015 and received an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council for Higher Education in Virginia in 2021. Before his academic career, John started as a mathematics and science teacher in Augusta County, Virginia. As an author, John has written multiple educational books focusing on science and mathematics, and he has co-created a new framework for developing, implementing, and sustaining professional learning communities called PLC+. Dr. Almarode's work has been presented to the US Congress, the Virginia Senate, and the US Department of Education.

John and his colleagues have also focused a lot of attention on the process of implementation – taking evidence-based practices and moving them from intention to implementation, potential to impact through a series of on-your-feet-guides around PLCs, Visible Learning, Visible Teaching, and the SOLO Taxonomy.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Teacher Coaching

Coaching for Impact

Coaching Foundations

Coaching Skills

Clarify Coaching Goals

Generate Evidence for Learning

Sustaining Coaching for Impact

Video Glossary

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