Recently, Michael Sonbert wrote an opinion piece for this blog critiquing an article I published in ASCD’s Educational Leadership on feedback in instructional coaching. In the process, he castigated ...

Instructional coaching is among the most effective forms of professional development. But doing coaching right is resource-intensive and hard to scale. Can artificial intelligence fill in the gaps? A ...

Recently I visited with Cory Loveless, veteran math teacher at West Fargo High School who has also served as an instructional coach. Like many excellent teachers, Cory works hard at his craft, cares ...

At the Van Winkle Early Childhood Center within Jackson Public School District in Mississippi, we enroll students for one year to prepare them for kindergarten. Family engagement is critical to a ...

“I’ve never done this work alone,” I thought as I looked around the high school gymnasium at the other instructional coaches and school leaders. We had been given a critical, quick-write prompt to ...

If you care about school leadership or culture and don’t know Michael Sonbert, you really should. He’s been a teacher and a novelist, cut his teeth as a coach working in the nation’s largest ...