
Sarah Cottinghatt
Research Lead at Steplab and former teacher and teacher educator who writes on coaching and learning design; co-author of Coaching Cuts and Coaching for Adaptive Expertise and contributor on coaching practice and mental models.
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Apr 3, 2026 • 1h 4min
What Great Coaching Does and Doesn't Look Like, Mind the Gap, Ep.119 (S6,E17)
Adam Kohlbeck, Director of Teacher Quality who leads trust-wide coaching, and Sarah Cottinghatt, research lead and former teacher who writes on coaching, discuss instructional coaching craft. They unpack surfacing teacher goals, mapping mental models, comparing versions of events, group rehearsal, scaling coaching across schools, and routines versus techniques. Short, concrete examples drive the conversation.


