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I feel there is quite a bit of truth to Bambrick-Santoyo’s comparison of coaching teacher leaders to Stone Soup. On our campus we have four members who make up our Instructional Leadership Team (ILT). ILT consists of our principal, assistant principal, our Language Arts instructional coach, and myself. Even with the four of us coaching teachers, it is still difficult to provide quality coaching to all of our teachers on campus. Most of our attention goes to our teachers who are “on fire” and, as a result, our other teachers are provided little coaching.
Bambrick-Santoyo (2013) states that, “The biggest challenge principals face in helping teachers improve faster is having the time to work with them” (p. 47). I think the author brings

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