The Peer Coaching Program is designed to help schools implement a professional development model that can enhance standards-based instruction by assisting teachers to offer students engaging, technology rich, learning activities.

The Peer Coaching Program will train teacher leaders to serve as peer coaches for colleagues. As coaches, these teachers will assist their peers in identifying ways that technology can strengthen classroom curriculum and enhance their students’ academic achievement. They will also help their colleagues to develop the necessary technology skills and instructional strategies needed to integrate technology into teaching and learning.

One school district administrator has noted the power of this model when she observed,

“The Peer Coaching Program embraces and applies the most recent and effective knowledge about adult learning. Daily, I am amazed by the power and the gentle ripple effective of this project - teachers working together, designing lessons together, strategizing how to enhance student learning. It has become self perpetuating. Veteran staff are reenergized and have made ‘subtle shifts’ in instructional practice that they have used for 30 years.”
-- Anne Cavanaugh, Executive Director, Student Learning Support, Longview Public Schools, Longview, Washington.