Tears From Stone: Living as Instructional Coaches in Pandemic Times

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Eight
  In Roundtable Session: Voices From Educators in Rural Contexts (Table 5)

Abstract

We are a university professor and two students (one a present student and one a former). The purpose of this research was to use the Self-Study of Teacher Education Practices (S-STEP) methodology to learn about how two instructional coaches and a university teacher educator navigated relational knowing and thinking about our roles. We are all from the southwest U.S. and we serve teachers in both rural and urban districts. To this end, we offer stories that resonated with the Niobe myth as tension between being strong rock-like supports for teachers, while also being human.

Authors

• Mary F. Rice, University of New Mexico
  Presenting Author

• Mariana Castanon, University of New Mexico
  Presenting Author

• Annette Fiedler, Los Lunas Schools
  Non-Presenting Author