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Leadership Coaching for Educators
By: Karla Reiss
Empower your staff through coaching! This clear, comprehensive resource demystifies the coaching process and explains how to design and implement an effective, school-wide coaching system.
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9781483359151
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2015
- Page Count: 328
- Publication date: April 07, 2015
Price: $40.95
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Description
Empower your staff through coaching!
There is an urgent need for school leaders to go beyond “top-down” supervision and coach educators to succeed. Use this comprehensive resource to design and implement an effective, school-wide coaching system that yields powerful results. Aligned with the International Coach Federation’s Professional Coaching Core Competencies, this revised edition demystifies the coaching process and includes:
- Recent research projects, award-winning success stories, and trends in the field
- Guidance for school leaders on developing, designing, and implementing a successful coaching program
- Graphic organizers and practical examples of coaching dialogue
- Evaluation tools for coach development
An expert educational consultant and founder of The Change Place, LLC, the author is a former president of the New York State Staff Development Council.
“Leadership Coaching for Educators offers coaching tips and examples that can be easily adapted.
A major strength of this book is the focus on a current topic. The author provides the background, definitions, a foundation and steps necessary for successful coaching implementation.”
—Delsia Easley, Principal
W. E. Striplin Elementary
Gadsden, AL
“The work is very well organized and is presented sequentially. It is very easy to follow. The author makes a great case that a major part of the success of each player is dependent upon the coach and the coaching process.”
—Dr. Robert A. Frick, Superintendent (Retired)
Lampeter-Strasburg School District
“The author’s passion for coaching is evident. This makes the text more engaging and helps the reader to become more curious about exploring coaching a change strategy.”
—Ruth S. Johnson, Professor of Educational Leadership
California State University, LA
Key features
- Aligned to International Coach Federation’s Professional Coaching Core Competencies
- Incorporates NSDC’s Life Coaching project concepts
- Includes real examples from the field of education
- Highlights success stories throughout
- Includes sample coaching dialogue
- Offers graphic organizers and diagrams
- Includes practical tools and templates for leadership and staff trainers and staff developers
Author(s)
Karla Reiss
Learn more about Karla Reiss' PD offerings
Karla Reiss is the award winning author of Leadership Coaching for Educators; Bringing Out the Best in School Administrators. She founded The Change Place, LLC in 2004, a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to the continuous improvement of individuals, teams and organizations after 30 years in education, publishing and sales. She and her team of certified coaches offer several levels of coaching training programs to leaders of school systems, government and non-profit organizations, businesses and individuals who wish to learn a coaching style of leadership, including Powerful Coaching for Powerful Results™ certification program, CKEY; Coaching Kids, Empowering Youth™ and various related programs. The Change Place, LLC also provides executive and leadership coaching services, workplace and leadership assessments and products that support others to lead professional and personal change. She is also a frequent speaker at national, state and local conferences.
As a school administrator, Reiss worked with more than 50 school districts in a variety of school improvement roles, the majority as coordinator of professional development at Western Suffolk (NY) Board of Cooperative Education Services. She has conducted numerous professional development programs and school improvement opportunities for K-12 staff and district leaders. She is certified in strategic planning and served on the New York State Education Department’s statewide steering committee for Comprehensive District Education Planning. She was president of New York State Staff Development Council and served on the Executive Board of the Long Island Association for Curriculum and Staff Development.
Karla Reiss is a graduate from the Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching in 2002 and received additional coach training at the College of Executive Coaching. She holds a bachelor of science degree, a master’s degree in special education and a professional diploma in school district administration. Her professional and personal inspiration and transition into the world of coaching was a result of the invitation to participate in Oxygen TV’s program, The Life Makeover Project in 2002. She has applied all of the coaching techniques and strategies described in this book to her own life and now helps others courageously transition their lives, leadership style and organizations to fulfill their goals, hopes and dreams.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
PART I: MAKING A CASE FOR LEADERSHIP COACHING
1. Why Coaching? Why Now?
PART II: COACHING MINDSETS AND SKILL SETS
2. Getting Started as a Coach
3. Core Coaching Competencies 1–4
4. Core Coaching Competencies 5–7
5. Core Coaching Competencies 8–11
PART III: ENSURING SUCCESS THROUGH COACHING
6. Strategies to Break Through Resistance
7. Powerful Coaching in Action
8. Implementing Successful Coaching
Conclusion
Resource A: Attributes of a Great Coach: Self-Assessment
Resource B: Coachee Readiness Checklist
Resource C: International Coach Federation Professional Coaching Core Competencies
Resource D: International Coach Federation Code of Ethics
Resource E: What's the Difference?
Resource F: Examining Limiting Beliefs
Resource G: The POWERful Coaching Framework(TM): Conducting a POWERful Coaching Session
Resource H: Professional Coaching Plan: Quarterly Goals and Initial Actions
Resource I: Coaching Session Action Planner
Resource J: Useful Assessment Tools to Use in Coaching
Resource K: Successful Coaching Implementation Checklist
References
Index
Reviews
"Leadership Coaching for Educators offers coaching tips and examples that can be easily adapted. A major strength of this book is the focus on a current topic. The author provides the background, definitions, a foundation and steps necessary for successful coaching implementation."
Delsia Easley, Principal"Leadership Coaching for Educators offers coaching tips and examples that can be easily adapted. A major strength of this book is the focus on a current topic. The author provides the background, definitions, a foundation and steps necessary for successful coaching implementation."
W.E. Striplin Elementary, Gadsden,AL
"The work is very well organized and is presented sequentially. It is very easy to follow. The author makes the case very well that a major part of the success of each player is dependent upon the coach and the coaching process."Robert A. Frick, Retired Superintendent
Lampeter-Strasburg School District, Lampeter, PA
"The author’s passion for coaching is evident. This makes the text more engaging and helps the reader to become more curious about exploring coaching a change strategy."Ruth S. Johnson, Professor of Educational Leadership
California State University, Los Angeles
"The education landscape is changing at a rapid pace. As educators, we realize the need for change and are constantly looking for ways to create excellent opportunities for our students. Knowing we need to change and knowing how to change are two very different concepts. In Leadership Coaching for Educators, Karla Reiss makes a compelling argument for leadership coaching as the means to facilitate organizational change. She provides valuable information on the ‘how to’ by providing the rationale and knowledge base we need in order to create a coaching culture in our schools. Reiss provides a 'practitioners model' of how everyone in education can benefit from a coaching model. Leadership Coaching for Educators shows how a coaching environment can improve efficacy and sustain initiatives that ultimately lead to student success!"
Jana L. Frieler, Director of Professional Learning and former NASSP President"The education landscape is changing at a rapid pace. As educators, we realize the need for change and are constantly looking for ways to create excellent opportunities for our students. Knowing we need to change and knowing how to change are two very different concepts. In Leadership Coaching for Educators, Karla Reiss makes a compelling argument for leadership coaching as the means to facilitate organizational change. She provides valuable information on the ‘how to’ by providing the rationale and knowledge base we need in order to create a coaching culture in our schools. Reiss provides a 'practitioners model' of how everyone in education can benefit from a coaching model. Leadership Coaching for Educators shows how a coaching environment can improve efficacy and sustain initiatives that ultimately lead to student success!"
Cherry Creek Schools, Colorado
"Too many professional learning opportunities suffer from the learning-doing gap. Coaching is one of the best ways to close that gap. Coaching helps educators make changes in classroom, school, and district practices that improve student learning. Karla Reiss’s book takes both a theoretical and boots-on-the-ground approach to coaching, bridging the gap between learning and doing. Reiss’s analysis of recent research on coaching and the details she provides about mind sets, competencies and sub-competencies, and skill sets make this an powerful book for educational leaders and those who want to enhance their leadership skills. The examples and stories she provides make the learning concrete and help readers see themselves as leadership coaches. The scenarios, dialogues and coaching tips are particularly instructive, helping readers 'bottom-line' the essential details. Her positive approach to personal and professional change makes me want to embark on a coaching career or, even better, seek a coach myself. Her writing left me full of hope that education can change."Lois Easton, author of Professional Learning Communities by Design and Engaging the Disengaged
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