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The Leader's Guide to Coaching in Schools
Creating Conditions for Effective Learning

First Edition

A Joint Publication with Learning Forward, Foreword by Jim Knight

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June 2017 | 144 pages | Corwin

Grow your leadership skills to bring out the best in your school!

Hallways, parking lots, staff rooms—these are all places where you and your staff have conversations every day. What if you could use these opportunities to build your staff’s resiliency and empower them to reach their goals. The Leader’s Guide to Coaching in Schools offers a proven, accessible, and usable framework to increase your interpersonal effectiveness and grow your ability to coach your staff to overcome obstacles and create their own solutions. Coaching experts John Campbell and Christian van Nieuwerburgh demonstrate how coaching is not just for formal coaching relationships, but how a coaching approach can be applied throughout a school day to create a culture of growth. Through sample questions, video examples, and tools this step-by-step guide shows you how to:

  • Introduce a coaching approach into a wide range of conversational contexts
  • Use the GROWTH coaching conversation framework to improve both staff and student success and well-being
  • Use coaching approaches in areas that school leaders typically find challenging: in formal performance reviews, when giving informal feedback, and when working with teams

Help your staff get “unstuck” no matter what challenges they are facing by using solutions-focused coaching techniques that help them envision desired outcomes and the actions needed to achieve them.

“The GROWTH coaching model should be in every administrator’s hand as their bible for school improvement. Having this guide will guarantee success and getting the best out of all stakeholders.”

—Elizabeth Alvarez, Principal
John C. Dore Elementary, Chicago, IL

“The book is just what the doctor ordered for busy leaders—short and concise.”

—B.R. Jones, Superintendent of Education
Tate County School District, Senatobio, MS

 


 
Foreword by Jim Knight
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
 
Chapter 1. Coaching in Schools: An Introduction to the Global Framework for Coaching in Education
 
Chapter 2. What Is Leadership Coaching?
 
Chapter 3. The GROWTH Coaching System
 
Chapter 4. Applying the Eight-Step Coaching Framework
 
Chapter 5. Positive, Strength-Based Approaches Underpinning the GCI Coaching System
 
Chapter 6. Using a Coaching Approach to Enhance the Performance and Well-Being of Teachers
 
Chapter 7. Creating the Right Context for Feedback
 
Chapter 8. Using Coaching Approaches to Enhance the Performance and Well-Being of Teams
 
Chapter 9. Leading a Coaching Culture
 
Chapter 10. Conclusion
 
Index

Supplements

“The GROWTH coaching model should be in every administrator’s hand as their bible for school improvement. Having this guide will guarantee success and getting the best out of all stakeholders.”

Elizabeth Alvarez, Principal
Chicago Public Schools: John C. Dore Elementary

“The book is just what the doctor ordered for busy leaders—short and concise.”

B.R. Jones, PhD, Superintendent of Education
Tate County School District
Key features
(1) A step-by-step guide to the practice of leadership coaching -- an effective means to expand leadership capacity across schools and districts.

(2) Simple, but powerful, GROWTH Coaching framework can be put to immediate use to define individual goals and identify what it takes to achieve and sustain desired results.

(3) Identifies the 8 critical skills that are required to become a great coach.

(4) Grounded in the latest research on Emotional Intelligence and strengths-based and solutions-focused approaches

(5) Includes a range of international case studies that depict implementation of the GROWTH Coaching framework across a variety of school settings.

 

Sample Materials & Chapters

Part 1 Introduction

Chapter 1


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