Dr. Matt Rhoads

25 Tips for Instructional Coaches and Leaders Empowering coaches and leaders to elevate teaching and student learning.

7. The Ultimate Guide
All these ideas are explored in-depth in my book, "Crush It from the Start: 25 Tips for Instructional Coaches and Leaders." It's designed to give instructional coaches a roadmap and seasoned leaders tools for their toolkit.

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Scaling Instructional Coaching: Overcoming Key Challenges While the evidence for instructional coaching’s effectiveness is compelling, translating this potential into widespread impact presents significant challenges, particularly when attempting to…

6. Scaling Your Impact
This is key for growth. Seasoned coaches and leaders can use these principles to move from a 1-to-1 model to a system that elevates the practice of an entire school or district, ensuring coaching is sustainable. #Leadership

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Proving Our Impact: How Instructional Coaches Can Use Regression Analysis to Demonstrate Their Value Recently, my PLN colleague Roxi Thompson posed some compelling questions on LinkedIn: How do you collect data to demonstrate the impact of your coaching program? What methods have you found effecti…

5. Demonstrating Your Value
Using data and regression analysis can help coaches build credibility and show their impact. It empowers leaders to make a powerful, data-backed case for protecting and expanding coaching programs.

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Instructional Coaches Need to Know How Memory Works – And It’s Not a Muscle I often hear memory described as a muscle—something that gets stronger the more you “work it out.” While the sentiment is well-intentioned, it’s a misleading metaphor. Our memory …

4. Grounding Your Practice in Science and Research
Understanding how memory works provides coaches with a deeper understanding of the "why" behind the instructional strategies they help teachers implement in their classrooms.

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The Power of Rehearsal: The Most Overlooked Step in Instructional Coaching Instructional coaching is a powerful tool for transforming teaching and learning, but one of its most underutilized strategies within instructional coaching is lesson rehearsal by the teaching bein…

3. The Power of Practice
Rehearsal is a game-changer. Coaches can use it to build a teacher's confidence. It also builds teacher competence and efficacy in implementing an instructional strategy before they do so in a live classroom.

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Instructional Coaching: Supporting Teachers Integrating Worked Examples and Frontloading to Amplify Instruction Within classroom instruction, “Worked Examples” and “Frontloading Models” play pivotal roles in enhancing student understanding and reducing cognitive overload when learning…

2. High-Impact Strategies
Coaches can immediately share "Worked Examples" and "Frontloading" as concrete, high-leverage strategies. Seasoned coaches can use these to help veteran teachers refine their instruction and tackle complex content.

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The Modern Instructional Coach As we transition from the broad challenges of modern education to specific strategies, this blog will first delve into the foundational cognitive science principles essential for instructional coac…

1. Defining the Modern Role of an IC
For new coaches, this defines the core expectations of your role. For seasoned leaders, it's a framework for keeping your team's practice current and impactful in our ever-evolving schools. #InstructionalCoaching

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Whether you're a new instructional coach finding your footing or a seasoned instructional leader aiming for greater impact, this thread is for you. #edusky

Let's explore practical strategies that support your growth at every stage of the journey, coaching teachers.

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All these ideas built toward something bigger. I'm excited to share that our book, Co-Teaching Evolved, has been out for almost a year. It's our definitive guide to building a thriving co-teaching partnership and implementing it with impact!

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Empowering New and Seasoned Co-Teachers with Refreshed Strategies to Meet the Needs of Today's Co-Teaching Classrooms Check out CoTeachingEvolved.com to learn more about co-teaching and Co-Teaching Evolved, release October 11th, 2024.

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This work is for new and seasoned co-teachers alike. I've been humbled to share these ideas for empowering all educators on podcasts and in my writing. Here are a couple of pieces.

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Teaching Online with Whiteboard Fox: Math Instruction and Co-Teaching By: Matt Rhoads, Ed.D Dr. Matt Rhoads is a Tech and Instructional Leader and Innovator with hands in Adult Ed, K-12, and Higher Education. He is the author of several books and is the host of Navig…

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Sometimes you need a specific tool for a specific problem. Here's a look at using a simple online whiteboard for co-teaching math online. A practical look at making it work online.

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Co-Teaching: Equitable and Inclusive Opportunities for Students Co-Teaching Strategies to Start With for Your Co-Teaching Partnership and Program

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Next, action. How do we build truly equitable classrooms? And what instructional strategies best leverage two teachers? It's about being intentional with our practice.

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The Heart of Co-Teaching: Moving From Partner to Partnership Throughout my years as a special education co-teacher at the high school level, I’ve experienced the full spectrum of partnerships. I recall one year vividly, where my two co-teaching assignments o…

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It all starts with the co-teaching partner relationship. How do you move from just partners to a true partnership? Here's my writing on the heart of co-teaching & how to optimize the work for student success.

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Co-teaching can be very impactful, but it's hard to get right. I've spent years figuring out what works (and what doesn't). #edusky

Here are some of my most helpful posts on building a strong co-teaching practice.

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Thanks for sticking with the thread. My goal is to provide practical, no-hype resources for educators trying to figure all of this out.

The blog is just one piece. On my site matthewrhoads.com, you can also check out my books, read over 150+ blogs, and see how we can partner on this work!

Creating AI Agent Safeguards (for now) through Pragmatic Instructional Design to Deliver Assignments and Assessments As you prepare your syllabus for the upcoming semester, a question I’ve explored before looms large. In a previous post, “The Death of the LMS in Higher Ed,” I argued that its role as a…

With all this potential, we HAVE to talk about the challenges. How do we design tasks and assessments with AI Agents in mind?

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#AIinEducation #AcademicIntegrity

AI Agents: The Future of School Leadership The deployment of AI Agents has the potential to greatly impact school leadership. These autonomous software systems, capable of perceiving their environment, making decisions, and executing action…

Thinking bigger picture... AI agents aren't just for teacher tasks. They have huge implications for school leadership: matthewrhoads.com/2025/04/07/a...

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#FutureOfEd #EdLeader

The Best AI Tools (so far) to Improve Teacher Planning, Assessment, Instruction, and Feedback So far I have explored many AI tools in my capacity as an EdTech Trainer, Coach, and Research Chair working with Adult Education ESL, CTE Teachers, High School Diploma, University Teacher Candidate…

Okay, but what tools should you actually be using? And how can new "agentic" AI change your workflow?

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5 Ways Agentic AI Can Transform Your Workflow: matthewrhoads.com/2025/06/25/5... #TeacherLife

Using AI to Build Powerful Retrieval Practice Activities to Supercharge Student Learning Opportunities The “testing effect,” a term championed by researchers like Roediger and Karpicke, demonstrates that every time a student actively recalls information, they strengthen the neural pathwa…

How can AI amplify proven #cogsci instructional strategies?

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AI for Worked Examples: matthewrhoads.com/2025/06/01/b... #InstructionalDesign

Amplifying Multilingual Learners with the Support of AI Tools Learn more about various AI tools to support teachers in amplifying their instruction for multilingual learners!

Let's start with supporting multilingual learners and students with diverse learning needs.

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Amplifying SpEd Teachers' IEP Workflow: matthewrhoads.com/2024/03/09/a... #SpEd #UDL

AI in education is moving at lightning speed. It's a lot to keep up with, let alone figure out how to use it effectively (and safely) in our schools. #edusky

Here’s a thread of my recent blog posts on everything from daily lesson planning to the future of the LMS.

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Co-Teaching Evolved: Partnership Strategies for an Equitable, Inclusive, and Tech-Powered Classroom (Create collaborative co-teaching partnerships) Amazon.com: Co-Teaching Evolved: Partnership Strategies for an Equitable, Inclusive, and Tech-Powered Classroom (Create collaborative co-teaching partnerships): 9781960574824: Matthew Rhoads, Belinda Dunnick Karge: Books

Looking to build your co-teaching program to support inclusion in your school and district? #edusky

Co-Teaching Evolved provides co-teaching partnerships with strategies to implement co-teaching with an impact that supports all students!

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Creating AI Agent Safeguards (for now) through Strategically Designed Strategies to Deliver Assignments and Assessments As you prepare your syllabus for the upcoming semester, a question I’ve explored before looms large. In a previous post, "The Death of the LMS in Higher Ed," I argued that its role as a simple repository for assignments is becoming obsolete. With AI agents now ubiquitous, how do we prevent the LMS from becoming a mere drop-box for bot-generated work from an autonomous AI Agent? The solution isn't to fully abandon the LMS (for now), but to evolve its purpose and create humanizing instructional barriers in the tasks and assessments we deliver to our students. This post presents a few practical strategies (I am implementing this term in my own graduate-level course) to revitalize our courses by shifting the focus from the final product, which AI can generate in seconds, to the learning process, which it cannot. This is going to my attempt to defend against students utilizing AI Agents. While I know this may not be one-hundred percent effective, I do have a hunch it will mitigate AI Agents to a degree, at least for the time being, this semester.

As you prepare your syllabus for the upcoming semester, a question I’ve explored before looms large for high school teachers and university professors. With AI agents now ubiquitous, how do we prevent the LMS from becoming a mere drop-box for bot-generated work from an autonomous AI Agent?

With the rise of AI agents, it is more important than ever to understand the science of learning.

The cat is now really out of the bag. #edusky

Transform Your Instructional and EdTech Coaching with I Do, We Do, & You Do Instructional coaching plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between innovative tools and effective classroom implementation. One proven strategy that involves rehearsal within instructional coa…

This is one of my favorite forms of instructional coaching: I do, we do, and you do. #edusky

I do this for all types of instructional strategies and EdTech integrations.

Deliberate modeling and practice make a huge difference!

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About Let’s empower instructional coaches and leaders in their coaching journey. Purchase on Amazon Are you an instructional coach or educational leader looking to amplify your impact? Coaching is …

Five critical themes all instructional coaches and leaders need to have in their toolkit. #edusky

1. Building and Maintaining Relationships
2. Cognitive Science
3. EdTech and AI Integration
4. How Coaching Happens
5. Systems Thinking

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New Release! Crush it from the Start: 25 Tips for Instructional Coaches and Leaders Today marks the release of my new book—a resource designed for instructional coaches, principals, assistant principals, college of education professors, and district office leaders who are committe…

Crush it from the Start: 25 Tips for School Leaders was released this past March. #edusky

In the post below, I discuss its release and five major themes all instructional coaches and leaders need to know to make impactful instructional change.

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When everyone starts using AI Agents, the internet as we know it may be a ghost town.

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