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Leading Like a C.O.A.C.H.
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Leading Like a C.O.A.C.H.
5 Strategies for Supporting Teaching and Learning

Foreword by Regie Routman



February 2022 | 192 pages | Corwin

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.

 
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

An inspirational guide for school leaders, this text provokes discussion and reflection among leaders who see themselves as as co-leaders in school communities. School vision becomes a reality when school leaders coach school faculties in a collaborative and collegial way in order to create a comprehensive and cohesive learning environment for students. An excellent book that is accessible to all principals.

Allyson Matczuk
Early Literacy Consultant and Reading Recovery Trainer at Manitoba, Education and Training

Leading Like a C.O.A.C.H. provides a framework that engenders trust and fortifies commitment to instructional excellence. Matt Renwick helps readers envision and rethink roles and routines. Most of all, his strategies, stories, and practical approach take the burden of trying to be an 'exert of everything' off of principals' shoulders. If  you want your school to be a place where teachers and students want to be, this book is for you!

Cris Tovani
English teacher, literacy consultant, Author of Why Do I Have to Read This?
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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/.  More About Author

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