Coaching to Improve Teaching Mentoring and coaching are of vital importance when it comes to education. New teachers are essentially thrown in with the wolves their first year of teaching. Sure, they all have gone through countless college classes to receive their diploma, but until you walk into your own classroom that first day, you are essentially going in blind. In today’s schools across the country, mentors and coaches are being utilized to help guide these new teachers. Mentors and coaches have valuable knowledge and understanding into how to manage a classroom effectively, how to engage students, and how to meet the needs of all students in a classroom. These insights should be shared with new teachers as they progress through their beginning years of teaching. The book, The Impact Cycle by Jim Knight (2018) states, “...I have come to believe that it is better for instructional coaches to know a few strategies well than to know a lot of strategies superficia...