Sustaining High-Quality Instructional Coaching in a Challenging Budget Environment
This tool from Education Resource Strategies guides education stakeholders on how to maintain high-quality instructional coaching through budget cuts. Despite its immense efficacy, coaching is often the first to be defunded when a school system must decrease costs. The document first shows the reader how to adopt an ROI approach through three steps: assessing the current instructional coaching model’s practices and costs, targeting the strategy to maximize the current system’s strength while maintaining budget cuts, and focusing on continuous improvement and adjustments that increase impact and maintain sustainable cost structures. Next, the document provides a table on how to shift existing resources and prioritize coaching investments. Overall, this guide is highly valuable to leaders looking to implement instructional coaching programs into their schools while dealing with a limited budget.