When a teacher retires an entire storehouse of knowledge is often lost. Now a retired educator has reproduced her storehouse in A Coach’s Guide to Asset-Mapping Teacher Quality: The Journey from Compliance to Community.
            The journey begins at a place called “compliance” and ends at a destination named “community.” During three “stops” on the journey, eighteen principles in three core areas critical to teacher quality and classroom practices are examined.

How Effective Teachers:

               The asset-mapping system equips coaches to acknowledge and affirm the beliefs, skills, and strengths (assets) within the school that can be leveraged for teachers to support one another. It is a job-embedded, ongoing, and formative approach to professional development.
          The workbook contains proven time-saving worksheets, templates, workshop ideas and materials, one-on-one teacher activities – all created by an experienced instructional coach.

A Replicable and Scalable System for Change

Using the Owl Mountain Coaching Asset-Mapping System, Coaches:

• Harness the collective beliefs, skills, strengths (assets) of ALL  teachers.
• Integrate their expertise, experience, and wisdom (assets) into the template and tools.
• Solve the challenges of coaching new, ineffective, and veteran teachers.
• Enhance teachers' career longevity - reduce attrition).
• Use social media to tap into the insights, strategies, and "wins" of coaches in other locations.
• Reflect and improve upon their coaching practice
• Create their own pilot or inquiry-based project.