This paper describes the Idaho Reading Coach Academy, which is part of the Idaho State Department of Education's (ISDE) K-3 literacy project, Striving to Meet Achievement in Reading Together (SMART). SMART is a multiyear cohort project that developed a statewide network of reading coaches who could provide direct support to participants. ISDE collaborated with the Region 17 Comprehensive Center (R17CC) to co-develop the Idaho Reading Coach Academy, which includes three in-person training sessions each year, as well as regular virtual meetings. The training is focused on evidence-based coaching skills and strategies, including topics such as building trust, modeling best practice, conducting side-by-side coaching in the classroom, building teachers' capacity to use data to drive decision making, and engaging in autonomous coaching in which teachers set the goals for their own practice. While focused specifically on coaching, all training activities, examples, and resources are grounded in the practical implementation of science of reading principles.