Teaching & Learning: Student Services
- Wauwatosa School District
- Diversity & Equity
Equity Instructional Coaches
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Instructional coaches are typically experienced classroom teachers who have moved away from full-time teaching to work directly with other teachers and help them improve their practice.
Responsibilities of instructional coaches include:
- Coaching teachers, especially those new to our district, with a focus on:
- Curriculum: what students learn
- Instruction: how students learn
- Assessment: how we know students learn. This often includes classroom observations, as well as pre-observation and post-observation conversations.
- Planning and conducting professional development for teachers
- Facilitating meetings
- Planning with administrators
Equity Instructional coaches are doing the above specifically through a lens of equity.
Overarching Goals of Coaches- Support equitable student achievement through the implementation of district initiatives by building teacher capacity, especially with teachers who are new to the district.
- Work with teachers, using evidence-based practices, to move the district’s equity work from implicit to explicit and to nurture culturally responsive classrooms.
- Serve as a liaison among stakeholders, for example between administrators and teachers or among teachers.
- Coaching teachers, especially those new to our district, with a focus on:
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Michael Brock
Instructional Coach-Equity
Phone: (414) 773-1691
Schools: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Madison, Underwood, and Washington Elementary
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Tracy Carus
Instructional Coach-Equity
Phone: (414) 773-1392
Schools: Wauwatosa Montessori, McKinley, Wilson, Jefferson, and Lincoln Elementary
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Kathryn Staacke
Instructional Coach-Equity
Phone: (414) 773-2551
Schools: Whitman and Longfellow Middle Schools