10 Things You Should Know About Instructional Coaches Through the Lens of an Administrator

1. Administrators need instructional coaches to survive.
2. Administrators crave your ideas and insights on important educational issues and initiatives.
3. Administrators appreciate all that you do even though sometimes they might not say it.
4. Administrators count on instructional coaches to support efforts related to standardized testing and benchmark assessments.
5. Administrators respect the insight instructional coaches share about what is or is not taking place in various learning environments.
6. Administrators know that they must tell the stories of the impact that instructional coaches have on enhancing teacher effectiveness and promoting the success of all students.
7. Administrators want instructional coaches to help them improve their effectiveness.
8. Administrators realize the impact the impact instructional coaches have on school operations outside of the classroom setting.
9. Administrators know that instructional coaches will exhaust all options to help students especially those who are most at risk.
10. Administrators know that some of the most talented educators in the world are instructional coaches.

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