Leading Student-Centered Coaching: Building Principal and Coach Partnerships

by Diane Sweeney, Ann Mausbach

Overview

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 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781544320564
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/16/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Diane Sweeney has been an author and educational consultant since 1999.  The author of Moves for Launching a New Year of Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2022), Student-Centered Coaching from a Distance (Corwin, 2021), The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2020), Leading Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2018), and Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves (Corwin, 2016), Diane holds a longstanding interest in how adult learning translates to learning in the classroom. Diane holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Denver and a Master’s in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder. After teaching and coaching in the Denver Public Schools, Diane served as a program officer at the Public Education&Business Coalition (PEBC) in Denver. Since then, she has become a respected voice in the field of coaching and professional development.

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. 

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

Editorial Reviews

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!”

Kelly Neylon

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

"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.”

Amanda Brueggeman