‘Effective Instructional Coaching Keeps Kids at the Center of the Work’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column.

In it, Sydney Chaffee, Cindy Garcia, Carrie Johnson, Roxanna Elden, Tatiana Esteban, Heather Register, Ashley Blackwelder, and Dawn Mitchell “kick off” a five-part series on instructional coaching.

Here are some excerpts: