Leading Student-Centered Coaching: Building Principal and Coach Partnerships

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 

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Diane Sweeney is the author of The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching, Moves for Launching a New Year of Student-Centered Coaching, Leading Student-Centered Coaching, and others. Each of these books is grounded in the simple but powerful premise that coaching can be designed to more directly impact student learning. Diane spends her time speaking and consulting for schools and educational organizations across the country. When she isn’t working in schools, she loves to spend time outside with her family in Denver, Colorado. Ann Mausbach, co-author of Leading Student-Centered Coaching: Building Principal and Coach Partnerships (Corwin, 2018), School Leadership through the Seasons: A Guide to Staying Focused and Getting Results All Year (Routledge Eye on Education, 2016) and Align the Design: A Blueprint for School Improvement (ASCD, 2008) has been an educator for over 30 years. Ann’s belief that the greatest investment a leader can make is in people not programs has focused her work on supporting principals and teacher leaders with the tools they need to align purpose with action.  Her administrative experience includes serving as a Coordinator of Staff Development, Director of Curriculum, Director of Elementary Education and an Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction. She currently works as an Associate Professor for Educational Leadership at Creighton University in Omaha, NE. 

Review :
"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" "Leading Student-Centered Coaching is an extremely beneficial resource that any administrator and coach should have on hand so they can effectively reinforce the ultimate outcome for school – kids learning. The tips and ideas are simple to pull from the book at any time and to authentically enact by both school leaders and coaches in order to promote effective student learning. If we frame coaching as being inclusive, or for all teachers, then we build on the belief that coaching is about partnering to meet the needs of each and every student." "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…My leadership team is studying teacher collective efficacy and this book has helped me see how we can align the coaching work, my work as the leader together to build that efficacy!"