Collaborative Peer Coaching That Improves Instruction

The authors present a wonderfully simple idea for turning a school into a learning community. It is a powerful, growth-oriented strategy for creating instructional focus in a school. -- Roy D. Nichols, Jr., Superintendent of Schools The book is an action-oriented game plan to improve teachers' performance--designed, initiated, and implemented by teachers. It tackles one of education's toughest issues--teacher isolation. -- Anne Bryant, Executive Director A refreshing dose of what the educational world (and others, too) needs for joyful accountability. -- Jack Canfield, CEO The authors present a powerful idea with the potential to transform schools by tearing down walls between teachers. -- Rudolph Crew, Fomer Chancellor The 2+2 system fosters collegiality and contributes to professional development by reducing teacher isolation and encouraging collaboration among teachers. -- James Cooper, Commonwealth Professor of Education Encouraging teahcers to visit each other's classrooms and create an environment of sharing and mutal trust has the potential to transform the profession. -- William Lee Sharing ideas and feedback leads to teaching improvement and helps create valuable discourse on the learning process. A 2+2 program is a powerful way to change the culture of isolation. Education majors would experience a shared teaching culture--a model to emulate one day in their own classroom. -- Evan Dobelle, President "Collaborative Peer Coaching That Improves Instruction: The 2 + 2 Performance Appraisal Model provides a simple method for performance apraisal for teachers that could be used by either peer teachers or administrators...The model provides feedback, encouragement, discussion, discourse, perspective, and collaboration in the improvement of instruction...model has been effective...The components of the model can be applied to other professions, especially those in the fields of social service and customer support." -- Susan Catapano * PsycCRITIQUES *