Dr. Sarah Woulfin, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut’s Neag School of Education: "Infrastructure for Instructional Coaching: How organizational conditions and routines influence coaching in multiple educational systems"

1. How Do Leaders Set the Stage for Effective
Instructional Coaching?
Infrastructure for Instructional Coaching:
How organizational conditions and routines influence coaching
in multiple educational systems
➢ Date: Monday, October 2nd
, 2017
➢ Time: 5:00pm–6:00pm
➢ Location: 2326 Tolman Hall
➢ Light refreshments served
➢ Free and open to the public
Dr. Sarah Woulfin will present findings from several studies
of instructional coaching. Her research uses lenses from
organizational theory to understand the relationship
between structures for and activities of coaching. Her
qualitative research considers how policies, system leaders, and collaboration routines enable—
or impede—reform-oriented coaching. This research leans upon the research-practice
partnership approach in order to provide usable knowledge related to coaching and to foster
quality teaching and learning within urban schools.
Sarah Woulfin is an assistant professor in the department of Educational Leadership in the University of
Connecticut’s Neag School of Education who studies the relationship between education policy, leadership, and
instructional reform. Using lenses from organizational sociology, she investigates how leaders affect teachers’
responses to school reform. Dr. Woulfin’s work has been published in AERJ, AJE, EAQ, RRQ, and other outlets. In her
doctoral work at the University of California-Berkeley, she focused on policy implementation and institutional
theory.
As a former urban public school teacher and reading coach, she was dedicated to strengthening students’ literacy
skills to promote educational equity. As a scholar, her commitment to raising the quality of instruction motivates
her research on how policy influences—and is influenced by—administrators, coaches, and teachers.
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