Leading Student-Centered Coaching: Building Principal and Coach Partnerships

ISBN: 1544320558

Author: Sweeney, Diane

Condition: New

Essential leadership moves for supporting instructional coaching in your schoolStrong 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 impactWith 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 AdministratorNorthwest 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, PrincipalMeadowview School, Woodridge IL