Developing a School-Wide Instructional Coaching Program at Shanghai American School with SAS Instructional Coaches

About this episode

This episode features a discussion with the instructional coaching team at Shanghai American School about their strategic development of a school-wide coaching program.

In this #coachbetter episode Kim talks with several members of the instructional coaching team at Shanghai American School in China. This is such a big team, that even with 6 guests on the show today: Alex McMillan, Alex Braden, Yuri Liu, Andrew Ranson, Bick McSwiney and Scott Williams, this is still less than half the team! We're excited to share this episode with you today because SAS has been doing phenomenal work in very intentionally developing their instructional coaching program both at the leadership and school wide level, and with the instructional coaches themselves. Associate Director of Ed Programs, Scott Williams has been leading this work, and Kim has partnered with SAS to support their coaches in their own private cohort of The Coach Certificate and Mentorship Program , as well as spending some time at SAS working with coaches and leaders together. SAS is also one of our Founding Member Schools of AAICIS . This episode is a window into the intention and strategic planning it takes to develop a coaching program in a very large international school! If you're curious to learn more, Scott and Kim have also written an article for the AAIE InterEd Journal which goes…

People in this episode

Guests: Alex McMillan, Alex Braden, Yuri Liu, Andrew Ranson, Bick McSwiney, Scott Williams

Topics covered

• instructional coaching
• school-wide programs
• educational leadership

Keywords

• Shanghai American School
• coaching program
• AAICIS
• Coach Certificate and Mentorship Program

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Coach Certificate and Mentorship Program

Books & works: Finding Your Path as a Woman in School Leadership, Fostering a Culture of Growth and Belonging: The Multi-Faceted Impact of Instructional Coaching in International Schools

Places: China

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