Coach It Further
Using the Art of Coaching to Improve School Leadership
- Peter M. DeWitt - Corwin Author and Consultant
Foreword by Coach Ron Mulson
Practical strategies for building coach-leader relationships
Leadership is complex work. High quality leadership coaching is one of the most effective methods of professional development for leaders. Coach It Further uses a narrative format to illustrate the important aspects of leadership that leaders and coaches can work on together to achieve their shared goals. It includes:
- Authentic stories from leaders and students
- The Collaborative Leadership Growth Cycle, which provides leaders with a starting point and specific steps to take to reach their goals
- Strategies for the four priorities research shows school leaders are most concerned about: collective efficacy, communication, student and family engagement, and political climate
- Reflection questions for leadership coaches to use with their leader-coaches
Whether you are a seasoned coach, a leader looking to be coached, or a leader looking for guidance on how to coach burgeoning leaders among your staff, this book will build your confidence and provide you with valuable insights and strategies.
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Offers a model of how educators can engage in the art of leadership coaching. School administrators will connect to the realistic, varied, and detailed examples illustrating the complexities of leadership. Here you will find thoughtful insights and practical suggestions for improving the quality of leadership coaching in your practice.
–Jenni Donohoo, Best-selling author and Professional Learning Facilitator
A must-read for school leaders and leadership coaches. You will connect to the real struggles of a principal learning to be coached. This book is chock-full of research, tips, and examples to help you improve your self-efficacy as a leader.
–Jessica Johnson, School Leader
Co-Author of The Coach Approach to School Leadership and Breaking Out of Isolation
| Why We Need Coaches in Educational Leadership |
| Stories Matter |
| Audience for This Book |
| The Self-Efficacy of Leadership |
| Leadership Shouldn’t Be a Solitary Pursuit |
| Coach’s Corner: Virtual Coaching |
| Special Features |
| What to Do Versus What Not to Do |
| Coach’s Corner: Strategies for Coaching Assistant Principals |
| Am I In Over My Head? |
| Coach’s Corner: Strategies for Addressing Insecurities |
| Coach’s Corner: Leadership PLCs on Voxer |
| It’s Time for a Coach |
| Coaching Credibility |
| Introducing Leadership Coach Michelle Hebert |
| Coach’s Corner: Credibility Matters |
| Of Course I Want to Be Coached! |
| Coach’s Corner: The Preengagement Survey |
| Let Go of Coaching Myths |
| Coach’s Corner: Sample Questions for Coaches to Ask Leaders |
| Interact With Students and Staff at the Beginning of Each Day |
| Emphasize the Positive |
| Coach’s Corner: Student Focus Groups |
| Be Transparent About the Coaching |
| Invite Everyone to Work Toward the Mission |
| Coach’s Corner: Improving the Culture of the School |
| Embrace Vulnerability |
| Believe in Your Own Capability |
| Coach’s Corner: Self-Efficacy Review |
| Improve the Climate First, Then the Culture |
| Coach’s Corner: Fostering an Inclusive School Climate |
| Coach’s Corner: Coaching and School Climate |
| Coach’s Corner: Where Do You Want to Start? |
| Where Should Gavin Start? |
| Coach’s Corner: Ways to Strengthen a Collaborative Culture |
| What It Means to Be More OPEN to Coaching |
| Coach’s Corner: Set Ground Rules |
| Coach’s Corner: Walk-Throughs |
| Whose Agenda Is This? |
| Coach’s Corner: Understand Your Coachee’s Needs |
| Gavin Seeks Advice From a Friend |
| Why Does Collective Efficacy Still Matter? |
| Coach’s Corner: Understand the Research You Promote |
| Coach’s Corner: Raise Self-Efficacy |
| Coach’s Corner: Assess Your Own Style of Coaching |
| Four Priorities of Leadership |
| The Survey That Inspired It All |
| Coach’s Corner: Collaborative Leadership Team (CLT) |
| The Morning After |
| Coach’s Corner: Create a Collaborative Leadership Team (CLT) |
| Collaborative Leadership Team |
| Coach’s Corner: Strategies to Overcome the Challenges of Distance |
| Surface to Deep |
| How Can Gavin Maximize His Time? |
| Coach’s Corner: Do What You Love |
| Coach’s Corner: Beware of Educational Jargon |
| Coach’s Corner: Strategies to Increase Trust in Schools |
| Coach’s Corner: Coaching Your Assistant Principals |
| Enabling Conditions |
| Coach’s Corner: Assess Your Communication Practices |
| Coaching Communication |
| Coach’s Corner: Establish Communication Frequency |
| Complications of Communication |
| Communication With Assistant Principals |
| Communication With Staff |
| Coach’s Corner: Communication Mistakes to Avoid |
| Coach’s Corner: Feedback Triggers to Watch Out For |
| Coaching Challenging Conversations |
| Coach’s Corner: Ways to Challenge in Conversations |
| Collaborative Leadership Team Explores Family Engagement |
| Coach’s Corner: Encourage Coachees to Assess Family Focus |
| The Collaborative Leadership Team Realizes All Doesn’t Mean All |
| Working With Outside Organizations |
| Coach’s Corner: Encourage Community Engagement |
| What Should Community Engagement Look Like? |
| Michelle’s Community Engagement Coaching Conversation |
| Negative Rhetoric Affects Us Too |
| Hattie’s Politics of Distraction |
| Coach’s Corner: Beware of the Politics of Distraction |
| The Collaborative Leadership Team Gets Distracted |
| Understanding Priorities |
| Four Priorities |
Dr. Peter DeWitt writes from the perspective of someone who has had an exceptionally varied combination of life experiences; the struggling student, the honors student, the teacher in both urban and rural educational settings, the administrator, the scholar, and the advocate for those in need of support. He is a rare combination of theorist and pragmatist and his insights on leadership and coaching are both thought-provoking and useful. They also may help many educators get closer to that ever-elusive good night’s sleep.
In this well-timed book, Peter DeWitt uses evidence-based stories to illustrate how educators can engage in the art of leadership coaching. School administrators will make multiple connections to the realistic, varied, and detailed examples DeWitt uses to illustrate the complexities of leadership. If you’re looking to improve the quality of leadership coaching in schools and districts, you’ll find thoughtful insights and practical suggestions contained throughout.
Coach It Further is a must-read for school leaders and leadership coaches. This is not your typical professional learning book. I promise you will enjoy reading as you follow the scenario of a principal learning to be coached. You will also make connections with the real struggles of leadership and coaching. This book is chock full of research, tips ,and examples to help you build your self-efficacy as a leader and lead your school to build collective efficacy.
Peter DeWitt has a credible authenticity that strikes a chord of recognition with teachers and principals. In Coach It Further he further develops the critical factor of collective efficacy and shows how a skilled coach can help a principal break a school cultural impasse and move a struggling school forward. This excellent book has a readability quality that will engage all readers.
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