Description: "Practice Based Coaching (PBC) is an evidence based coaching framework for supporting teachers' use of evidence informed teaching practices"--
Review Quotes: This is an essential book on one of the most important education and policy issues of our time- supporting teacher quality through coaching. Snyder, Hemmeter and Fox, internationally renowned experts in coaching, artfully and clearly synthesize the empirical evidence supporting the effectiveness of Practice Based Coaching (PBC). With the same skill, they brilliantly provide practical guidance for implementing PBC in a variety of early childhood settings. Throughout the chapters, resources such as coaching logs, record forms, training materials, and fidelity checklists are included along with case stories illustrating both the how and why of implementing PBC in actual settings. In doing so, the authors effectively present both the art and science of coaching with the focus of achieving high-quality outcomes in teachers and other caretakers, as well as children. This book will be used as the â oegold standardâ for implementing evidenced-based coaching in early childhood classrooms. If you are involved in coaching as a practitioner, researcher, or technical assistance specialist, this book is a must read. --Barbara A. Wasik, Ph.D.