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    Instructional Coaching

    What Is Instructional Coaching? Instructional Coaching is job-embedded professional development. During Instructional Coaching for teachers, the coach: facilitates pre-observation conversations, g…

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    Instructional Coaching Services

    Instructional coaches work one-on-one with teachers, providing guidance, training, and other resources needed to boost their students' success. Our instructional coaching specialists work with your ca…

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    Instructional Coaching Convention

    ICC 2026 | The Next Generation Tour The Next Generation Tour celebrates the R13 Coaches’ ten-year ICC journey while turning up the volume on the future of instructional coaching.This tenth-anniversar…

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    Instructional Coaching: Consultation

    We support our clients with meeting district and campus academic goals through our educational consulting services. We partner with stakeholders to analyze quantitative and qualitative data to determi…

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    Instructional Coaching Partnership Series

    Instructional Coaching Partnership Series is an innovative approach to targeted professional learning for district and campus instructional coaches, specialists, and curriculum coordinators who wish t…

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    Early Childhood Instructional Coaching Series

    Supporting High-Quality Pre-K Instruction in Alignment with HB 3 Requirements, our Early Childhood Coaching Support is designed to help Pre-K teachers meet the requirements, ensuring that educators ha…

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    Instructional Coaching: Custom PD

    Our Instructional Coaching team can provide professional development for instructional coaches that is customized to your specific needs. We partner with our districts to analyze data and determine a …

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    Instructional Coaching for Teachers of Emergent Bilinguals

    Our multilingual specialists provide your teachers and staff support with an EB instructional coach. We use research-driven strategies and methods to improve the outcomes of all your Emergent Bilingua…

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    MakerHappen: Onsite Makerspace Professional Development

    What is a School Makerspace? A school makerspace is where students come together to build, tinker, explore, and invent. Makerspaces create lasting meaning, foster innovation, and make a positive impa…

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    MakerHappen: Coaching

    Whether you currently have a Makerspace on your campus or you are looking to create one, our coaches can help. Our coaches are always non-evaluative and take a partnership approach to coaching. We wil…

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    MakerHappen

    What is a School Makerspace? A school makerspace is where students come together to build, tinker, explore, and invent. Makerspaces create lasting meaning, foster innovation, and make a positive impa…

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    Reflecting on Your Coaching Practice

    As the school year draws to a close, it’s important for instructional coaches to take time for self-reflection. Reflection allows you to recognize your successes, evaluate your areas for growth,…

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    25 End-of-Year Reflection Questions for Teachers

    As the school year comes to a close, it’s natural for teachers to reflect on their successes, challenges, and areas for growth. Taking the time to pause and reflect can help educators gain a dee…

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    Brewing Success: A Refreshing Coffee Chat on Eduphoria Updates

    Join us for a virtual hour of stimulating conversation and valuable insight as we delve into the latest news and updates on Eduphoria. This interactive and engaging coffee chat format will provide a u…

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    Brewing Success: A Refreshing Coffee Chat on DMAC Updates

    Join us for a virtual hour of stimulating conversation and valuable insight as we delve into the latest news and updates on DMAC. This interactive and engaging coffee chat format will provide a unique…

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    New Teacher Coaching

    About Us: We build trust and relationships quickly to establish a safe space for vulnerability, partnership, risk-taking, and growth. We have the time to dedicate to your new teachers, working alongs…

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    Professional Learning Communities (PLC) Custom PD

    Unlock the potential of your PLC teams with our expertly designed PLC workshops. Choose from the following menu, or contact us to customize your professional learning to your campus and district needs…

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    Setting a Sustainable Foundation for Blended and Personalized Learning

    The Setting a Sustainable Foundation for Blended and Personalized Learning program can be fully reimbursed by the TEA for the 25-26 school year. For more information on this process, reach out t…

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    The Teacher Toolkit

    This website was developed as a project of the ESC Region 13 Educator Certification Program (ECP) Transition to Teaching grant from the United States Department of Education. The idea for this site …

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    Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, K-12

    This three-day series is based on Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl and includes a study of the 14 practices he describes to create a classroom setting for productive math…

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    Cards For Coaching: PLC Edition (Set of Cards)

    Cards for Coaching: PLC Edition is a delightful and fun game of scenarios created to foster dialogue and open the door to effective collaboration for professional learning communities. This game is gr…

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    Cards For Coaching (Set of Cards)

    Cards for Coaching is a delightful and fun game of scenarios created to foster dialogue and open the door to effective professional communication. This game is great for facilitators of professional d…

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    5 Ways to Grow Your Questioning Skills When Coaching

    Questioning is one of those skills that most, if not all, know is an important catalyst for learning and growth. Yet, with the fast-paced nature of our schools and the multiple demands for our time an…

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    5 Reasons Why Educational Coaching Matters

    When thinking about coaching, many people automatically think of the great sports coaches- Phil Jackson, Vince Lombardi, and Pat Summit- to name a few. But when it comes to education, coaching is stil…

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    TEKS Resource System - Curriculum

    The TEKS Resource System Is a technology updated comprehensive online curriculum and assessment management systemIs developed BY Texas educators FOR Texas educatorsSupports Math, Science, Soc…

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    TIL: Materials Internalization and Alignment

    The purpose of the TIL Materials Internalization and Alignment (MIA) is to build the capacity of school leaders to invest and coach teachers in the effective internalization of HQIM (High Quality Inst…

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    Content Area Facilitated Planning

    Our coaches partner with individual teachers or teams to provide coherent guidance while planning for instruction and formative assessment. We utilize the Understanding By Design (UBD) planning model …

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    Content Areas: Custom PD

    Our content area teams can provide customized teacher professional development workshops for your staff. We partner with our districts to analyze student data and determine a focus for learning and su…

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    Helping Students Focus on and Make Sense of Their Learning (McREL)

    In today’s distraction-filled world, helping students focus is only the first step—true learning happens when students actively process new information, make meaning, and connect it to what they alrea…

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    Getting Students Interested In and Committed to Learning (McREL)

    Today’s classrooms are filled with distractions, and students’ attention is harder to earn than ever. Effective teachers know that learning starts with engagement—grabbing students’ attention, breakin…

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    Helping Students Extend and Apply Their Learning (McREL)

    For learning to truly stick, students must go deeper—organizing knowledge into meaningful patterns and applying it in new and complex situations. These critical final phases of The McREL Institute’s S…

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    More than Nouns and Verbs: Elevating Grammar Instruction in Secondary RLA

    This course is designed to help you as a secondary RLA teacher develop effective strategies for teaching grammar to your students. You will explore various approaches to teaching grammar including exp…

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    How Instructional Coaches Support Hardiness in Teachers

    Hey there, fellow educators! Have you ever felt like teaching is like trying to juggle a dozen balls at once? Well, you’re not alone. Teaching is tough, and we face challenges every single day. …

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    What is Texas Instructional Leadership?

    A principal’s responsibilities are constantly evolving, but one thing that remains the same is their role as an instructional leader. By setting goals, aligning curriculum, analyzing student dat…

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    TIL: Observation and Feedback

    Observation and Feedback guide administrators in developing strong systems for regular teacher observation and timely feedback. Ultimately, teacher observation shifts away from evaluation and towards …

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    The Effective School Framework (ESF) and Blended Learning for Classroom Educators

    This experience is designed to explore blended and personalized learning pedagogy through the lens of the Effective School Framework. By the end of the course, participants will have a stronger sense …

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    The Personalized Classroom: Setting a Strong Foundation for Blended Learning

    This learning experience is designed to serve as an exploration of blended and personalized learning pedagogy through the lens of foundational skills. By the end of the course, each participant will h…

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    Uncovering the Link Between Literacy and Social Studies

    Elementary teachers lay the foundation for instilling a lifelong love of learning and a deep understanding of foundational skills about the world around us. The task is huge and comes with substantial…

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    3 Steps to Effective Coaching Feedback

    Coach. That one word alone will likely lead you to think about what? If you’re like me, something like sports or athletics comes to mind. Like coaches in sports, instructional coaches provide expertis…

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    21 Questions to Guide Your End-of-Year PLC Team Reflection

    As the school year draws to a close, it’s a great time for Professional Learning Communities (PLC) teams to reflect on their collective achievements, growth areas, and improvement opportunities.…

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    Teach Me to MakerHappen: An Educator's Guide to Makerspace in the Classroom (Downloadable PDF)

    Teach Me to MakerHappen: An Educator's Guide to Makerspace in the Classroom guides educators through the process of establishing or reviving a Makerspace on their campus with any budget. It considers …

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    Teach Me to MakerHappen: An Educator's Guide to Makerspace in the Classroom (Spiral-Bound)

    Teach Me to MakerHappen: An Educator's Guide to Makerspace in the Classroom guides educators through the process of establishing or reviving a Makerspace on their campus with any budget. It considers …

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    Maximize Your Coaching Cycle

    As a practical principal and instructional leader, you’re consistently reflecting on the successes of your campus and determining the next steps to continue your students’ growth. When you think…

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    Announcing Whiteboard 13: Support for Parents, Teachers, and Coaches

    I still remember the moment I learned that my children’s school would be closed for two weeks due to COVID-19. I should have seen it coming; schools were closing all around the country. But, still it …

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    School Leaders

    Whether you’re a principal, assistant principal, instructional coach, or the head teacher over your campus’ English department, school leaders come in all shapes in sizes. We collaborate with school …