List of Tables and Figures
Preface
About the Authors
Part I: An Introduction to School Leadership Coaching
1. What Is Coaching?
2. Meeting the Challenges of the Principalship
3. Foundational Coaching Skills: Building Relationships
4. Foundational Coaching Skills: Listening, Observing, and
Questioning
5. Providing Feedback
Part II: Blended Coaching Strategies
6. Introducing Blended Coaching Strategies
7. Facilitative Coaching
8. Instructional Coaching
9. Collaborative Coaching
10. Consultative Coaching
11. Transformational Coaching
Part III: Bringing It All Together
12. Coaching for Systems Change
13. Structural Components of a Quality Leadership Coaching
Program
Conclusion
Resource A: Materials for Coach Professional Development
Resource B: Establishing the Coaching Relationship
Resource C: Formative Assessment Tools
References
Index
Gary Bloom is the lead author of Blended Coaching: Supporting the
Development and Supervision of School Leaders. Gary has 40
years of K–12 education experience, having served as a bilingual
teacher, principal, director of curriculum, and assistant
superintendent. He served as the superintendent of the Aromas-San
Juan Unified School District, known for its innovative programs,
such as graduation exhibitions, a teacher-led high school, and
teacher peer review. More recently he served as superintendent of
Santa Cruz City Schools. He was a founder and Associate Director of
the New Teacher Center at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Gary is a Kellogg National Fellow, was adjunct faculty to San Jose
State University’s Educational Administration graduate program, and
has consulted, trained, and presented on a variety of topics
throughout the United States and in Latin America. He is the
primary author of a number of professional development programs for
leadership coaches and school principals. He has published articles
in a variety of journals, most recently on the topics of teacher
leadership, principal development, professional learning
communities, new teacher support, and the appropriate use of
technology. He authored, with his friend Marty Krovetz, the book
Powerful Partnerships, a guide for the development of assistant
principals in collaboration with their supervising principals
available from Corwin Press. Gary currently consults with school
districts around the United States, provides executive coaching to
superintendents and principal supervisors, does volunteer work in
California and Central America. Claire Castagna is a program
director and outreach consultant for the New Teacher Center’s
administrator induction program, Coaching School Leaders to Attain
Student Success. She has 28 years experience in education as
a bilingual teacher, bilingual program coordinator, assistant
principal and principal. Throughout her career, Claire has
focused on implementing programs that ensure that second language
learners achieve excellence. She has presented her work in second
language literacy at TESOL and CABE conferences. As a principal,
Claire led her school to a California Distinguished School Award
and became a mentor principal for the Santa Cruz County Baldrige in
Education Consortium. Since 2001, Claire has coached beginning
principals as they learn to balance the daily demands of the
principalship with their role as instructional leader and change
agent. She has collaborated in the development of CLASS as a
model of support for beginning principals and leads the development
of the Improving Student Achievement series of workshops for site
administrators on standards based supervision.
Ellen Moir is founder and executive director of the New Teacher
Center, which is committed to the development of an inspired,
dedicated, and highly quali¬fied teaching force by supporting new
teachers as they enter the profession. For more than 20 years, she
has pioneered innovative approaches to new teacher development,
research on new teacher practice, and the design and administration
of teacher induction programs. Moir continues to work with the
Santa Cruz/Silicon Valley New Teacher Project and is an advocate
for new teachers across the country. Moir has received national
recognition for her work, including the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. 2005
Prize in Education and the 2003 Distinguished Teacher Educator
Award from the California Council on Teacher Education. Moir is the
author of several articles and book chapters and has produced video
series related to new teacher development. Her work has been
supported by over 20 private foundations and donors, the National
Science Foundation, and several state and federal agencies. Betsy
Warren has worked in the field of education for thirty years. As a
classroom teacher she taught grades 6-12 in four states. She was a
teacher leader active in both local and state levels of teacher
association activities. After completing her Masters degree in
School Administration, she worked as district coordinator of
curriculum and staff development. She went on to become a site
level administrator where, she confesses, she learned more about
herself, schools, and systems than she ever imagined possible.
Betsy currently serves as outreach coordinator for the New Teacher
Center working with the CLASS Team’s New Administrator Project. She
also presents professional development seminars for new and veteran
administrators. Betsy is a recipient of the Women Leaders in
Education Leadership Award and a recent nominee for the Excellence
in Education Award sponsored by the Office of the Mayor of San
Jose.
"This is one of the best, most concise books I know on this topic,
and should be equally helpful to elementary, middle, and high
school principals. I learned many new ideas that will make me a
better coach."
*Paul G. Young, NAESP President, 2002-2003*
"Finally there′s a book on the market with all the key ingredients
for a beginning principal coaching program wrapped into a single
recipe for success. Blended Coaching is a research-based, practical
and chock full of user-friendly protocols. Recognizing that novice
principals face a common set of obstacles and pressures, the
authors provide a structured approach to enhance their on-the-job
learning and effectiveness. My own school district has been using
the winning CLASS formula since 2002 to support 15 first and
second-year principals. CLASS has definitely made a difference in
the professional lives of Capistrano′s newcomers who have been
fortunate enough to work with a trained coach. This book now makes
it possible for any school district to put these resources to
immediate use and start their own new principal coaching
program."
*Suzette Lovely, Associate Superintendent, Personnel Services*
"One of the few books on education in the last decade that has the
touch of genius. Blended Coaching gives principals the inspiration
they need to shift from administrator to school leader, from cop to
coach, from boss to mentor. It provides proven strategies, skills
that can be practically and immediately applied to positively
impact every teacher and student in America."
*Robert Hargrove*
"This book provides field-tested, nuanced guidance for all who are
concerned with supporting principals′ professional learning,
including mentors, coaches, professional developers, faculty
members in educational leadership, and school district
leaders. The combination of varied strategies and real-world
examples of how coaching supports and develops educational leaders
across a broad spectrum of experience and expertise provides an
invaluable resource for the field of educational leadership."
*Michael Copland*
"Bloom, Castagna, Moir, and Warren have achieved new heights in our
profession by building upon the best knowledge in coaching and
systems change and constructing blended leadership coaching founded
on substantive research in cognition, linguistics, emotional
intelligence, and cultural competency. Blended Coaching gives
expression to a coaching conceptual framework erected with skills,
tools and vibrant examples."
*Linda Lambert, Professor Emeritus*
"At last we have a comprehensive book that teaches us about the
practice of coaching and the principalship! There are skills,
strategies, tools, and stories of practicing leaders that can help
a prospective leader grow and learn in this engagingly written
book. This is clearly a must read for principals-new and
experienced and those who coach them."
*Ann Lieberman, Senior Scholar*
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