Research and Evaluation Team
at the Center for Collaborative Education

Provides services in educational research and program evaluation for organizations engaged in public education

Publications: School Coaching

The Challenge of Coaching: Providing Cohesion among Multiple Reform Agendas (2004)

Rosann Tung, Center for Collaborative Education
Monique Ouimette, Center for Collaborative Education
Jay Feldman, Center for Collaborative Education

This third in a series of studies on coaching at CCE looks at coaches’ views on the “reform agenda” and answers the question, “How do coaches balance pushing the reform agenda and meeting the immediate needs of school staff?” The term “reform agenda” has multiple owners and therefore multiple meanings: the district reform agenda, the principal’s reform agenda, CCE’s reform agenda, and the coach’s reform agenda . This study also identifies some of the immediate needs which potentially detract from the work of whole school change. It describes coaches’ strategies for achieving the balance between reform and reality, the challenges faced in achieving this balance, and ways that CCE may address these challenges to develop the coaching and reform models.

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The Role of External Facilitators in Whole School Reform: Teachers’ Perceptions of How Coaches Influence School Change (2002)

Jay Feldman, Center for Collaborative Education
Rosann Tung, Center for Collaborative Education

Presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association in April 2002. This is the second in a series of reports describing the role of coaches in working with schools to promote whole school reform. This report analyzes teacher and administrator perceptions of coaching practices in their schools.

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Promoting Whole School Reform: A Closer Look at the Role of External Facilitators (2001)

Rosann Tung, Center for Collaborative Education
Jay Feldman, Center for Collaborative Education

Presented at the 14th International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement in January 2001. This paper is the first in a series of reports describing the role of coaches - external facilitators - in working with schools to promote whole school reform.

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The Coach in Context: Building School Capacity through External Facilitation (2001)

Jay Feldman, Center for Collaborative Education

Presented at the Annual Conference of the New England Educational Research Organization in April 2001. This paper explores some of the complexities that make coaching multifaceted through the presentation of a case study of a coach facilitating middle school math and science reform. This case study identifies some of the challenges coaches face, some strategies coaches use in their daily work, and some implications for the coaching model.

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