The School District of Waukesha has invested in our growth and development through opportunities for professional learning as well as through coaching. However, as we work to better our practice and skills through coaching, we begin to ask ourselves, what does it mean to coach.
As a district, we have defined coaching through the work that coaches do. In Elena Aguilar's book, The Art of Coaching, Aguilar shares many excellent strategies for coaching. More importantly, she outlines in the beginning of her book what coaching is not. From her book, Aguilar shares that coaching is not about enforcing a program, fixing people, being a therapist, or being a consultant. Coaching focuses on growing teaching capacity through feedback and reflective questioning. To build consistency, or coherence, across our district coaches, coordinators, and principals have been engaged in professional learning on coaching. While as a district we continue to refine what coaching looks like, our goal is that the practice and art of coaching become institutionalized within our district.
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