BUILDing Momentum

How can we forefront a strengths-based approach to the data chat? This episode aligns OELL's BUILD coaching framework with the IES Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific's Five Steps to Structuring Data-Informed Conversations and Action in Education. It also draws on the K12 Lift blog "Practicing the Art of the Data Chat" and Harrison and Bryan's NSDC article "Data Dialogue".

In this episode we will start with why we coach effective teachers, look at the evidence behind coaching, talk about developing adaptive expertise, break down the blended coaching approach, discuss protecting professional agency, and wrap up with building collective capacity.

Today, we’re talking about summer—not just as a break from the pace of the school year, but as a powerful opportunity for reflection, refinement, and intentional design.

Summer gives school leaders a chance to step back and ask: What systems are working? What needs to be clarified? And how can coaching become more than an activity—how can it become part of the way our school learns?

In this episode of BUILDing Momentum: Coaching-Based Leadership, we explore how to establish trust within relational coaching as the foundation for meaningful feedback, reflective practice, and lasting instructional change.

Welcome to BUILDing Momentum—a podcast from Florida Atlantic University’s Office of Educational Leadership Learning focused on coaching-based leadership.

This podcast is designed to support educational leaders—superintendents, principals, assistant principals, teacher leaders, and coaches—who are committed to strengthening practice, building capacity, and leading meaningful, lasting improvement.

In this inaugural episode of BUILDing Momentum, we introduce the BUILD framework for coaching-based leadership.