Instructional improvement initiatives in many districts include instructional coaching as a
primary form of job-embedded support for teachers. However, the coaching literature …

There is growing concern among researchers and governmental officials that knowing what
works in education is important, but not enough for school improvement. Sound evidence …

Many districts are using content-focused coaching as a strategy to provide job-embedded
support to teachers. However, the current coaching literature provides little guidance on …

This chapter describes a partnership with four urban districts that aimed to develop an
empirically grounded theory of action for improving the quality of mathematics instruction at …

Background/Context Teachers' relationships with principals, instructional coaches, and other
teachers have important implications for the improvement of their instructional practice and …

In this chapter, we describe a methodology for conducting educational design research to
support system-wide instructional improvement in mathematics and draw on one of the few …

This paper provides a historical overview of the role and impact of elementary mathematics
specialists as well as current implications and opportunities for the field. Furthermore …

METHOD The first stage of our work required a determination of the lenses through which
we would analyze the mathematics coaching literature compiled by McGatha et al.(2015) …

The roles, responsibilities, and preparatory experiences of 10 elementary mathematics
specialists were examined in the areas of content knowledge for teaching mathematics …

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