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Leading Like a C.O.A.C.H.

5 Strategies for Supporting Teaching and Learning

By: Matthew Renwick

Written with a practical approach, this book provides new and veteran school leaders with easily adoptable ideas for supporting teachers and their teams to achieve excellence.
Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781071840474
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2022
  • Page Count: 192
  • Publication date: February 22, 2022

Price: $32.95

Price: $32.95
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Description

Description

Expand your leadership capacity to help your school reach its potential

All schools have the capacity for schoolwide instructional excellence. Schools with leaders who adopt a coaching stance as part of their practice are more likely to realize this success. Leaders achieve success with their teachers, their students, and their families, not alone.

Leading like a C.O.A.C.H. reframes the approach to schoolwide change from a leader acting alone to a leader working with a community in which each member contributes their strengths and ideas to improving instruction. Renwick, a well-known blogger and writer on literacy and leadership, encourages school leaders to embody five practices: 1. Create confidence through trust; 2. Organize around a priority; 3. Affirm promising practices; 4. Communicate feedback; and 5. Help teachers become leaders and learners. Throughout this practical guide, readers will find

  • Reflective questions
  • Activities
  • Indicators of success
  • Examples of leaders coaching teachers to excellence
  • Wisdom from the field     

This book provides new and veteran leaders with a practical approach and easily adoptable ideas for helping their schools realize their full potential.


Key features

  • Reflective questions
  • Activities
  • Success indicators
  • Special notes
  • Examples of leaders coaching teachers to excellence
  • Wisdom From the Field
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Matthew Renwick

Matt Renwick has served in public education for over 20 years. He started as a 5th and 6th-grade teacher in a country school outside of Wisconsin Rapids, WI. Matt now serves as an elementary principal for the Mineral Point Unified School District. See more of his work at https://mattrenwick.com/.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Foreword by Regie Routman


Introduction

     The Purpose of This Book

     My Coaching Journey

     Reflective Questions

Chapter 1: Why Should I Lead Like a Coach?

     Benefits of Leading Like a Coach

     Expand on Your Current Identities

     Shifting Toward a Coaching Stance

     Reflective Questions

Chapter 2: How Instructional Walks Help Leaders Adopt a Coaching Stance

     Introducing Instructional Walks

     The Instructional Walk Process

     From Judging to Learning

     What Instructional Walks Are Not

     Reflective Questions

Chapter 3: Create Confidence Through Trust

     Defining Trust

     Four Conditions for Trust

     Condition 1: Consistency

     Condition 2: Compassion

     Condition 3: Communication

     Condition 4: Competence

     Success Indicators for Creating Confidence Through Trust

     Reflective Questions

Chapter 4: Organize Around a Priority

     Defining a Priority

     Step 1: Analyze and Understand Your Current Reality

     Step 2: Examine Your Beliefs About Instruction

     Step 3: Engage in Focused Professional Learning

     Step 4: Create Collective Commitments Around Promising Practices

     Success Indicators for Organizing Around a Priority

     Reflective Questions

Chapter 5: Affirm Promising Practices

     Four Principles for Initiating Positive Change

     Principle 1: Adopt an Instructional Framework

     Principle 2: Learn With Your Faculty

     Principle 3: Develop Collaborative Learning Communities

     Principle 4: Institutionalize Promising Practices

     Success Indicators of Affirming Promising Practices

     Reflective Questions

Chapter 6: Communicate Feedback

     Defining Feedback

     Communicating Feedback Through Engagement (vs. Bypass)

     Differentiating Feedback to Meet Teachers’ Needs

     Example 6.1: Exploring New Ideas for Classroom Management

     Example 6.2: How the Task Supports Student Engagement

     Example 6.3: A Better Way to Assess

     Success Indicators for Communicating Feedback

     Reflective Questions

Chapter 7: Help Teachers Become Leaders and Learners

     A Journey to Excellence

     Example 7.1: Teacher Self-Assessment (Wilmot Elementary School, Jefferson County Public Schools, Denver, Colorado)

     Example 7.2: Residency Model for Professional Development (Winnipeg School District, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

     Success Indicators of Helping Teachers Become Leaders and Learners

     Final Reflective Questions

Conclusion: What Will Be Your Legacy?

References

Index

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