Essential leadership moves for supporting instructional coaching in your school
Strong leadership is essential in any successful instructional coaching effort. Leading Student-Centered Coaching provides principals and district leaders with the background, practices, and tools required for leading coaching efforts that have a profound and positive impact on student and teacher learning. Filled with practical ideas that school leaders can easily apply to their own school settings, this book includes:
- Tools and techniques for preparing a school for coaching, launching a coaching culture, and supporting coaches
- Leadership Moves sections that provide strategies for building principal and coach partnerships
- Richly detailed Lessons from the Field, based on the authors’ real-life experiences, that illustrate principal and coach collaboration
- Recommendations for coaches to use as they strive to increase their impact
With a focus on the critical role of school leadership, this action-oriented guide provides the key ingredients for ensuring the success of school-based coaching initiatives.
‘Sweeney and Mausbach explore the necessary ingredients to a successful instructional coach partnership between the principal and the coaches. This is a must-read for building leadership teams implementing an instructional coach program’
—Timothy S. Grieves, Chief Administrator
Northwest Area Education Agency, IA
‘This book synthesized the work necessary of school leaders when working with the coach. As a principal who was a student-centered coach, this book has shown me how I can tweak the skills I learned and apply them with a leadership lens.’
—Kelly Neylon, Principal
Meadowview School, Woodridge IL
विषयसूची
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Chapter 1: An Introduction to Student-Centered Coaching
Chapter 2: Connecting School Improvement to Coaching
Chapter 3: Defining Roles for Coaches and Principals
Chapter 4: School Culture and Coaching
Chapter 5: Setting Expectations for Authentic Participation in Coaching
Chapter 6: Driving Toward High Quality Instruction
Chapter 7: Separating Coaching From Supervision
Chapter 8: Supporting the Development of the Coach
In Closing
Appendix A: Rubric for Leading Student-Centered Coaching
Appendix B: Rubric for Student-Centered Coaching
Appendix C: Sample School Improvement Plan
Appendix D: Student-Centered Coaching Moves
Appendix E: Results-Based Coaching Tool
Appendix F: Planner for Sharing Lessons
References
Index
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Diane Sweeney has been an author and educational consultant since 1999. The author of Moves for Launching a New Year of Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2022), Student-Centered Coaching from a Distance (Corwin, 2021), The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2020), Leading Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2018), and Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves (Corwin, 2016), Diane holds a longstanding interest in how adult learning translates to learning in the classroom. Diane holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Denver and a Master’s in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder. After teaching and coaching in the Denver Public Schools, Diane served as a program officer at the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC) in Denver. Since then, she has become a respected voice in the field of coaching and professional development.