Coaches

"Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their performance.  It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them." John Whitmore

"Coaching is a confidential process through which professional colleagues work together to reflect on current practices; expand, refine, and build new skills; share ideas; conduct classroom research; or solve problems in the workplace. It has nothing to do with evaluation."  How to Plan and Implement a Peer Coaching Program

"Successful coaches must make a substanial and permanent commitment to their own learning. They are responsible for understanding both what is known about the process of reading and the teaching of readers, and what is learned as that knowledge base expands."  The Literacy Coach's Handbook