Best Practice: Teachers as Coaches Through Peer Observation

By Catherine Beck Principal, September/October 2015 I learned a powerful lesson in leadership when I was appointed to take over a school that was on the brink of turnaround status. I spent the first year making every last decision. I did not trust my staff and I micromanaged everything and everyone. After all, my staff were the same teachers who had been there the previous years as student achievement declined. Surely it must have been the staff’s fault, right? Wrong.