Educational coaching can be used as a method for increasing teacher efficacy and improving student achievement. Knight, director of the Kansas Coaching Project at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, brings together educational coaches and consultants to look at the latest issues and methods in instructional coaching, literacy coaching, cognitive coaching, and leadership coaching, as well as coaching in classroom management, content coaching, and differentiated coaching for different teachers' personality and learning styles. Each chapter opens with a coaching scenario, then describes an approach and gives insight into how it was developed and how it is distinguished from other approaches. A concluding chapter outlines current research on the effectiveness of coaching. Each contributor has written a least one book fully describing the ideas they summarize here. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)