Description
Invest in building talent. The best principals don’t just happen.
Your single most impactful investment toward student achievement might be an investment in helping leaders learn. This book bucks the notion of leaving principals to learn the ropes on their own. The solid, sustainable, and laser-sharp focus on instructional leadership helps leaders hone, model and lead new learning through deliberate practice by:
? Engaging in rich, rigorous, and reflective open-to-learning conversations with both coaches and colleagues to improve instructional leadership practices
? Leveraging their 5 Big Winner Practices for highest impact, and
? Using Linking Walks to apply new ideas to real scenarios.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Jim Knight
Preface
Retain Your Investment in Leadership
Promote Continuous Learning
Where Do Impact Coaches Come From?
Special Features
Who Is This Book For?
Introducing Rachel Hazel, Featured Coachee
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Why Do School Leaders Need Coaching?
The Dubious Quality of Traditional Professional Development
Common Forms of Coaching
Research on Leadership Coaching
Key Takeaways
Going Deeper
Chapter 2: Leveraging Your Five Big-Winner Leadership Practices
The 80/20 Rule
High-Impact Instructional Leadership Practices
Key Takeaways
Going Deeper
Chapter 3: What Does Impact Coaching Look Like?
The Impact Coaching Cycle
Key Takeaways
Going Deeper
Chapter 4: Partnership Principles and Theories of Practice
Knight’s Partnership Principles
Theories of Practice
Key Takeaways
Going Deeper
Chapter 5: Impact Partner Communication
Why Conversations About Improvement Can Be Difficult
Conducting Open-to-Learning Conversations
Key Components of an Open-to-Learning Conversation
Engaging in Behaviors That Mediate Thinking
Key Takeaways
Going Deeper
Chapter 6: Engaging School Leaders and Starting the Journey
Getting School Leaders Amenable to Coaching
Making Change Happen: Hall and Hord
Key Functions of Change and Professional Learning in Schools
The Components of Impact Coaching
Key Takeaways
Going Deeper
Chapter 7: Modeling, Observing, and Collaboratively Exploring Data
Impact Coaching Process Tools
Key Takeaways
Going Deeper
Chapter 8: The End of Impact Coaching: Scaling Instructional Leadership
What Do We Now Know?
Learning About Impact Coaching During Coaching
Our Challenge to You
Appendices
Section 1: Feedback Cue Card
Section 2: Instructional Leadership Elements Rubrics
Section 3: LinkingWalk Evidence-Gathering Templates
Section 4: Theories-of-Practice Self-Assessment Tool
Glossary
References
Index
