Certain school districts such as in the city of Chicago and New York made intentional
policies to fund ‘Teacher Leaders’ to strategically “coach” both high performing and
underperforming teachers as part of the teacher improvement plan. Best practice
coaching are ‘strategist coaches or ‘intervention coaches’ in modeling and reinforcing
teaching practice and learning expectations. The emphasis was to empower teaching
through robust and intentional feedback by using data, classroom observation and
creating tools to provide a transparent student voice on teacher performance.