Rachel Bartholomew: Impacting Student Learning through Instructional Coaching for Educators

Rachel Bartholomew is currently an instructional coach for both an elementary school and a Title I junior high school in the Granite School District in Salt Lake City, Utah. Before that Rachel taught reading for 20 years in all three levels of school: elementary, middle school/junior high, and high school, and in three different states: North Carolina, Washington state, and Utah. Rachel also coached volleyball, basketball, and track and field at the junior high level for 10 years. 

In this episode, Rachel shares about what has kept her going through 20+ years as an educator. She discusses how instructional coaching differs from teaching, how we can benefit from a “culture of coaching” that can help us improve and grow, and the particular skill set that she brings to it from her own experiences as teacher and athletics coach. She describes how teaching has shifted in the last 20 years, and gives examples of how she has and has not been able to help various educators in her goal of making it easier for them so students know what they’re supposed to be doing and more learning can occur. Throughout the episode, Rachel addresses questions about the feedback cycle, evidence, growth, proficiency, resistance, and shares what she has found to be the most powerful question she can ask educators (and they can ask themselves). Ultimately, Rachel says, her work comes down to relationship, and connection is everything. 

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