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How can instructional coaching move our curriculum from paper to practice?

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CLAIRE HILL, FORMER TRUST DIRECTOR OF IMPROVEMENT, STRATEGIC DIRECTOR, STEPLAB, UK JOSHUA GOODRICH, FORMER TRUST PD LEAD, CEO, STEPLAB, UK Have we lost sight of the classroom in our focus on curriculum? In recent years, there’s been a welcome focus on the importance of curriculum and a wealth of knowledge shared around curriculum theory. Yet an exclusive focus on curriculum design can mean that we are left with carefully planned documents but much less clarity on how to translate paper to practice in the classroom. We need to be as focused on how the curriculum will be delivered as we are about what it includes. As Mary Kennedy (2016) points out, unless we focus on how teachers will enact the curriculum in their classrooms, we are left with ideas that do nothing to influence student learning. Closing this ‘what–how’ gap is how we move from well-crafted documents detailing our intended curriculum to its effective enactment in the classroom. How can coaching help to close

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