WestEd’s K–12 Instructional Practice and Coaching service helps educators ensure all students master state standards and are prepared for postsecondary success.

Our coaching assists educators in expanding their knowledge and skills within social, cultural, and historical contexts. Using an inquiry stance, we facilitate adult learning and skill development, creating a positive impact for both individuals and organizations.

The service is ideal for teachers, teacher leaders, teacher coaches, and site and district administrators.

As professionals and continuous learners, educators need engaging professional learning, opportunities to practice new skills, and feedback to help them improve. Check out our services designed to support high-quality instruction across content areas.

Learn the steps leaders can take to establish and maintain a system of instructional inquiry that can transform teaching and learning throughout an entire school.

In this handbook, three instructional coaches share more than 200 of the most helpful problem-solving strategies they’ve used in their decades-long work with teachers, administrators, and coaches in diverse settings. Learn practical, research-based strategies that have a history of success.

Discover an innovative process where educators come together over several days to co-create lesson plans, observe each other's teaching in action, and deliver constructive coaching and feedback for ongoing professional development.

Educators can use formative assessment practices to help tailor their instruction to meet student needs. Learn what formative assessment is, what it looks like in practice, and how it might benefit English Learners, specifically, in this webinar series.

Elementary teachers in the Washoe County School District (NV) routinely conduct data inquiry cycles in their grade-level learning huddles to improve teaching and learning. Find out how the district developed its teachers’ capacity to do this work and the impact on instructional practice.