How the Framing of Instructional Coaching as a Lever for Systemic or Individual Reform Influences the Enactment of Coaching

Educational Administration Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 179-213

  Mangin, Melinda M ^a   Dunsmore, KaiLonnie ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Center for Literacy Education   (United States)

Author keywords

instructional coaching; literacy coaching; professional development; systemic reform; teacher leadership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924907822     PISSN: 0013161X     EISSN: 15523519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013161X14522814     Document Type: Article

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