Leading Student-Centered Coaching - Sweeney, Diane

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Résumé :
Essential leadership moves for supporting instructional coaching in your school Strong leadership is essential in any successful instructional coaching effort. This action-oriented guide provides principals and district leaders with the background, practices, and tools required for leading coaching efforts that have a measurable impact on student and teacher learning. Filled with ideas that school leaders can easily apply, this book includes: Tools and techniques for preparing a school for coaching, launching a coaching culture, and supporting coaches Leadership moves and lessons from the field that provide strategies for building principal and coach partnerships Recommendations for coaches to use as they strive to increase their impact...

Biographie:

Diane Sweeney, author of Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves (Corwin, 2016), Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2011), Student-Centered Coaching at the Secondary Level (2013), and Learning Along the Way (Stenhouse, 2003) has been an educator for over twenty years. Diane holds a longstanding interest in how adult learning translates to learning in the classroom. She has served as a teacher and literacy coach in the Denver Public Schools, the Director of Coaching Initiatives for the Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC), and an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of Denver. Currently she is a consultant serving schools and districts throughout the US and abroad.

Ann Mausbach, author of 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 Assistant Professor for Educational Leadership at Creighton University in Omaha, NE.