Coaches often support multiple campuses. We wanted to create a way for coaches to 'categorize or cluster' the campuses they support in a way that makes sense to them. Creating Community Groups is a great tool to help coaches 'cluster or group' certain campuses together based on areas such as the geographical locations within their district that campuses are located in, the school year(s) of support, or the types of campuses being supported (i.e., primary or secondary). It is up to the coach to determine the best way for them to 'capture' the campuses they work with that will help them better organize their coaching work. We have included the ability to drill-down from community groups, to the associated campuses, to even the associated educators and groups.

A 'coaching practice' is a form of integrated learning that you can engage in when coaching educators that will lead to quality coaching results. In the platform we have added a few of our favorite coaching practices that coaches can engage in during their coaching relationships to improve success. These include, but are not limited to, goal setting, creating learning targets and success criteria for the goal, analyzing student work, collecting student evidence, and collaborative planning. An 'instructional practice or strategy' is a learning opportunity that coaches can recommend when coaching educators that will lead to improved achievement outcomes. Jim Knight recommends that coaches have an instructional playbook which contains high impact strategies that have a proven effect size that improve student achievement.

Formal Coaching Cycles are when a coach and educator set either a teacher-focused or student-focused goal and work over a given period of time to meet that goal using a coaching process or structure (i.e., coaching model). During formal coaching cycles a coach and educator engage in various coaching practices, utilize coaching moves, co-plan, collect evidence, etc. During a formal coaching cycle a coach and educator may adjust or modify the goal if they notice the need to make adjustments. In our platform, we consider Informal Coaching Work any coaching work that a coach engages in that is either short term, not focused on a specific goal, impromptu coaching supports, or a support that does not follow a specific process or structure (i.e., coaching model).

Each educator and/or group member will receive an email with their login credentials once their coach has switched their video coaching collaboration status to 'active'. These credentials will then remain available for the educator until they delete their account. However, an educator and/or group member will only have access to the Video Coaching Library that is tied to a specific coach, as long as their coach has it enabled. Once their video coaching collaboration has ended, the coach 'can' turn each educators access status to 'inactive,' therefore removing that specific library from an educators account. Once a coach and educator begin working together again, they can simply change the status to 'active' again.

Not yet! This is something we will be adding during a future update.