Content Focused Coaching

​Engaging teachers in a Content-Focused Coaching® experience, facilitated by University-level coaches, using the online technologies that teachers use every day.
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​Why Content-Focused Coaching®?

IFL’s Content-Focused Coaching® model guides teachers through intensive in-classroom professional development.  It is an evidence-based approach that supports teachers’ adoption of more engaging instructional techniques.
  • The model maximizes the coach’s role as an instructional support for teachers in a content area.
  • It has proven effective “at improving reading comprehension instruction and students’ reading achievement in high-poverty elementary schools” (Matsumura, Garnier, & Spybrook, 2013)
  • Evidence from Texas school districts shows that it improves student test scores, especially among English Learners.

DialogeX and Content-focused Coaching®

DialogeX has partnered with the University of Pittsburgh's Institue for Learning to deliver their full Content-Focused Coaching® (CFC) program through an innovated online platform with live coaches and facilitator. Our program provides the same level of fidelity as the on-site workshop but with a more flexible class schedule.
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​The IFL's CFC model maximizes the coaches' role as an instructional support for teachers in a content area. We take a systemic approach to supporting districts in using coaches effectively to advance student learning in ELA/literacy, mathematics, and science.
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Our work with coaches positions them as learners and instructional resources. Coaches expand their content knowledge, their knowledge of best content-area practices, and their capacity to collaborate with teachers to advance student learning.
  • Grounded in research on teaching and learning, CFC helps 
  • Establish trusting and collaborative relationships with teachers and other educators
  • Work with teachers individually and in groups to plan, enact, and reflect on rigorous lessons using lesson planning tools, student work, and other classroom artifacts
  • Teach or co-teach lessons to model instructional practices for teachers and advance coaches' own learning
  • Facilitate ongoing professional learning community meetings in a content area
  • Collaborate with principals to plan and deliver focused professional development sessions in a content area
  • Overlap co-accountability with teachers for student learning
The IFL's Content-Focused Coaching® model has a proven record of improving student achievement and teacher practice. Read about the research on CFC here.
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