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Instructional coaching is one of the most effective ways to improve teaching and learning

When teachers have a trusted partner to plan instruction, model strategies, and give feedback, students benefit. Coaching isn’t about evaluation — it’s about growth, collaboration, and making teaching stronger every day.

Every student deserves a great teacher and every teacher deserves support to keep growing. Right now, too many Maryland students are falling behind. Instructional coaching helps change that.

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Strategic Plan Organization

The Strategic Plan organizes the Department’s core work around the five Blueprint pillars. Each pillar includes a goal statement and a set of measurable outcomes that MSDE is working to achieve. To support these outcomes, MSDE has identified strategies consisting of major programs and initiatives designed to drive progress toward the goals.

  • Pillar

    Overarching theme from the Blueprint
  • Goal

    High-level aspiration
  • Outcome

    Concrete, measurable metric for tracking progress
  • Strategy

    Agency work aligned to the outcome

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Maryland State Department of Education