When Leaders and Coaches Move as One: Aligning Support for Deeper Learning
When principals and instructional coaches move with clarity, classrooms shift. This session offers a practical and inspiring look at what happens when leaders and coaches use the same language, pursue the same learning intentions, and model the same expectations for deeper learning. Participants will explore real scenarios drawn from school settings, practice aligned coaching conversations, and examine moves that strengthen coherence across a building. Whether you are a leader, coach, or partner in both roles, this session helps create the conditions that allow teachers to feel supported and students to think deeply.
Theresa Staley
Theresa Staley’s work as a faculty coach and consultant with Instructional Empowerment evokes and reflects her values and aspirations for greatness in education. Her professional experiences embed influential change as a coach, teacher, research-based trainer, and district-level administrator. Theresa’s knowledge in core instruction and effectiveness with marginalized populations and school transformations characterizes her as an innovator and leader for effective school reform.
An educator for over twenty years, Theresa’s authentic and empowering persona transcends throughout her work in schools across the country, as noted in her successes with Caroline County Schools in Denton, Maryland, in addition to the extraordinary transformation in the midwestern region of our nation, Grand Island, Nebraska, catapulting both as frontrunner turnaround schools. She currently partners with the stakeholders within Hillsborough County Schools, in both Ruskin and Brandon, Florida, supporting a Model of Instruction that capitalizes on student and teacher growth.
Her passion and advocacy for teaching and education is transparent, inspirational, and contagious. Theresa enjoys blogging, personally and professionally, to share and capture the human elements of curiosity and courage within school transformations.
Session Details
Grade Level: Elementary;Middle School;High School
Audience: Instructional Coach;School Leader;
Difficulty Level: Intermediate