Kristi Colby is the instructional coach at Prairie High School for the 2013-2014 school year. She has a varied work history including various food service jobs and teaching a range of subjects from art to Spanish. She took the job as an instructional coach because she is passionate about self-reflection, improvement, and helping others. As the coach, her roles are to support new teachers by co-planning and co-teaching with them, reflect on learning, support collaborating teacher teams by providing tools and resources and collecting student data, help plan and facilitate professional learning, and support all teachers by tailoring professional learning to their needs and the needs of their students. Her professional goal is for 100% of teachers