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
Table of Content
Foreword by Jim KnightPreface
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
About the author
Christian is a well-respected executive coach, internationally-recognised academic and sought-after consultant. Christian van Nieuwerburgh is Professor of Positive Psychology and Coaching at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Global Director of Growth Coaching International. Previously he was a Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer within the Coaching Psychology programmes at the University of East London, one of the world’s leading centres for the postgraduate study of coaching. He lectured on a number of MSc programmes in the School of Psychology, and continues to undertake ground-breaking research and international collaborations in coaching and supervises academic dissertations.Seen as an international authority in the field of coaching, he has been invited to speak at conferences in the US, the UK, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. He regularly presents on the topics of coaching, motivation, mental toughness and leadership. Christian has written a number of peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters about coaching.Christian is particularly passionate about the power of coaching in educational settings. He is the editor of Coaching in Education: Getting Better Results for Students, Educators and Parents (2012), which is now one of the key textbooks in the field. Through his consultancy, the International Centre for Coaching in Education (ICCE), Christian delivers training, consultancy, coaching and professional development programmes to schools, colleges and universities in the UK and abroad. He is motivated by the idea of creating coaching cultures for learning which allow students to purposefully and confidently pursue their aspirations.Christian defines himself as an engaged academic practitioner, committed to the useful interplay of theory, research and practice. Students, delegates, clients and peers describe him as an inspirational educator and empowering coach. Instagram: coachonamotorcycle Linked In: Christian van Nieuwerburgh Twitter: @christianvnMore ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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