Coaching Conversations: Transforming Your School One Conversation at a Time

by Linda M. Gross Cheliotes, Marceta F. Reilly

Overview

Focus the power of your collaborative school community with powerful coaching conversations!

Effective coaching conversations are powerful tools to rally your school-community stakeholders to work collaboratively toward transformation, and, ultimately, share in success. The Second Edition of this best-selling handbook includes new neuroscientific research that demonstrates the potential for change in schools and expands the approach to cover teacher/student interaction. In addition to learning techniques to engage and motivate, readers will discover how to:

·       Develop relational trust within the school that heightens personal growth and supports student achievement

·       Utilize the power of committed listening, intentional conversations, and nonjudgmental feedback

·       Create positive changes in how people think and interact

Being a successful school leader has become an increasingly complex role that demands not only tremendous knowledge and skills, but also highly developed interpersonal skills. Written with an easy-to-use approach, this handbook provides simple yet powerful coaching strategies to help school community members work together toward positive school transformation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781544319698
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/13/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Consulting Description

Linda Gross Cheliotes has over 38 years of successful educational experience, including fourteen years as a school administrator. As principal, she transformed her underperforming school to a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. She was named a National Distinguished Principal in 2002 and holds a doctorate in Organizational Leadership.

 

For the past two years, Dr. Gross has been a coach and trainer with Coaching for Results, Inc, a national consortium of school leadership coaches. She is a founding member and coach for NAESP’s principal mentor certification program. Dr. Gross currently works with the New York City Council of School Administrators’ Educational Leadership Institute, providing professional development for assistant principals who aspire to become principals. She has presented numerous professional development programs at the national, state, and local levels.

 

Dr. Gross is a member of the International Coach Federation and the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

Consulting Description



Marceta Reilly, PhD, has 42 years of experience in education, moving from teacher to principal to school superintendent in Kansas. Her vision and passion were to create schools that were welcoming to students and families, and centers of learning and success for the entire community.

Dr. Reilly is now a leadership coach and has the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coach Federation. She is a founding member of Coaching for Results, Inc., and dedicated to partnering with school leaders who are doing transformational work. She uses coaching conversations to help her clients gain insight and confidence, and she helps build their capacity to be extraordinary leaders, based on their individual, innate strengths.

Dr. Reilly regularly conducts workshops about coaching conversations. She is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences, and has been invited to present these ideas to audiences in China (2007) and India (2009).

Learn more at  http://marcetareilly.com/leadership-that-inspires.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Simon T. Bailey
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Coaching Conversations: The Link to Change
What Is a Coaching Conversation?
Why Our Brains Need Coaching
Why Trust Matters
Holding Difficult Conversations
Moving Toward Coaching Conversations
Summary
Reflections for Practice
2. Coaching, Mentoring and the Leadership Continuum
Leadership Practices Continuum
How the Continuum Works in Practice
Being a Coach-Like Mentor
The Case for Being Coach-Like
Summary
Reflections for Practice
3. Committed Listening
Listening Assessment
Moving to Action
Components of Committed Listening
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
Value Silence
Unproductive Patterns of Listening
Listen Without Obligation to Act
Summary
Reflections for Practice
4. Powerful Speaking and Questioning
Expressing Positive Intent
Avoid Advice
Ask Powerful Questions
Summary
Reflections for Practice
5. Reflective Feedback
The Importance of Feedback
Three Types of Feedback
Options for Offering Meaningful Feedback
Responding-on-the-Fly
Framing an Important Conversation Using Reflective Feedback
Journal Reflection About an Important Upcoming Conversation
Using the Reflective Feedback Frame to Support Excellence
Reframing Resistance
Summary
Reflections for Practice
6. Moving to Action: A Way of Being
The Basic Framework
Study 1: Using the Reflective Framework in a Supervisory Coaching Conversatio
Study 2: Using the Reflective Framework for Large Scale Challenges
Next Steps
Summary
Reflections for Practice
Appendices
Appendix A: Powerful, Open-Ended Questions
Appendix B: Reflective Feedback
Appendix C: Reframing Resistance
Appendix D: Reflective Feedback Framework for Coaching Conversations
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

The authors assist readers with useful tools to increase their ability to engage and motivate school staff while working collectively toward a positive overall school transformation. The greatest strength of this book is that several of the techniques and skill sets mentioned and utilized are in fact common social work communication practices.

Danny Porter

A necessary handbook on any administrator’s desk, this book is an evening read that can be readily operationalized the next morning. The book could serve as a basis for conversation during an administrators’ roundtable discussion.

Bonnie Tryon

"Imagine having the insight and skills to transform simple conversations into opportunities for growth and reflection. While many school leaders wait for professional development days, the most successful leaders recognize that individual conversations held countless times per day serve as the most authentic example of job-embedded professional learning. Educators can facilitate substantive growth in individuals and organizations—one conversation at a time—and this book shows them how. "

Stephanie Hirsh

The book helps school leaders be effective coaches to effectuate necessary change in schools. It is a tremendous asset to any school leader who wants to make a significant difference in the lives of children.

Roberta Glaser

Educators often develop strategies and methodologies based on workplace challenges. The skills are not always the most effective but often emerge from the 'baptism by fire' approach. This book offers strategies and skills that may be incorporated immediately. The material is very useful. In fact, I just used one of the strategies with a member of my team!

Rob Slauson

This book most definitely makes a distinct contribution to the field of education and any field where human interaction occurs between a leader and his or her subordinates.

Dana Salles Trevethan