From the Publisher
"In Make It Happen, Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic provide coaches with practical strategies for helping teacher teams identify and unpack essential standards, create and utilize common assessments, and develop interventions and extensions to ensure student learning. Grounded in research, this book offers step-by-step processes, powerful tools, and concrete examples to help teams make it happen for their students."
Mike Mattos, educator and author
"With their practical and insightful book, Make It Happen, the authors offer an important contribution to PLC literature. They provide clarity and support to the PLC process and add definitional rigor to a much misunderstood term, coaching. The tools and strategies in this resource will add depth and focus to every instructional plan. Don't just read this book study it, apply it, and devour it."
Douglas Reeves, founder, Creative Leadership Solutions
"With Make It Happen, Kim Bailey and Chris Jakicic offer another straightforward, enlightening, and practical resource supporting the diverse roles of instructional coaches in all fields of education. It focuses on three variables that ultimately impact the effectiveness and success of an instructional coach: capacity, culture, and context. Embedded in the foundations of PLCs, readers will see the significance of instructional coaches working in a collaborative environment focused on student learning and achievement."
Mandy Barrett, principal, Gravette Upper Elementary, Arkansas
"Make It Happen not only defines what good coaching looks like, it also demonstrates how coaching can positively impact teaching and learning. The visuals, protocols, and reflection opportunities in this book will help school leaders and coaches learn together, focus their work, and provide clarity and support for collaborative teams. Through shared leadership, collective inquiry, and mutual ownership, schools and districts will begin to see improved and sustainable results for students."
Julie Schmidt, Superintendent of Schools, Kildeer District 96, Illinois