Coaching Conversations: Transforming Your School One Conversation at a Time

"The most successful leaders recognize that individual conversations held countless times per day serve as the most authentic example of job-embedded professional learning. Educators can facilitate substantive growth in individuals and organizations―one conversation at a time―and this book shows them how."
―Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director
National Staff Development Council

"A necessary handbook on any administrator′s desk, this book is an evening read that can be readily operationalized the next morning. The book could easily serve as a basis for conversation during an administrators′ roundtable discussion."
―Bonnie Tryon, President
School Administrators Association of New York

An effective, inexpensive approach for facilitating transformation through the entire school community!

Being a successful school leader has become an increasingly complex role that demands highly developed interpersonal skills. Now this easy-to-use handbook shows school leaders the practical coaching-conversation techniques they need to engage and motivate their school communities to work collaboratively toward total school transformation.

Different from supervisory and mentoring conversations, coaching conversations shift responsibility for instructional improvement from the school leader to every member of the school community. In this example-packed guide, the authors use current research and their own extensive experience to help school leaders:

• Develop open and reflective conversations with all staff members
• Build skills for motivating staff
• Adopt new habits for working with teachers, staff, and students
• Utilize the power of committed listening, intentional conversations, and non-judgmental feedback
• Create positive changes in how people think and interact

With this powerful approach, every member of the school community participates in the transformation of the school and shares in the celebration of successful changes!

Linda Gross Cheliotes has over 38 years of successful educational experience, including fourteen years as a school administrator. As principal, she transformed her underperforming school to a National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. She was named a National Distinguished Principal in 2002 and holds a doctorate in Organizational Leadership.

For the past two years, Dr. Gross has been a coach and trainer with Coaching for Results, Inc, a national consortium of school leadership coaches. She is a founding member and coach for NAESP’s principal mentor certification program. Dr. Gross currently works with the New York City Council of School Administrators’ Educational Leadership Institute, providing professional development for assistant principals who aspire to become principals. She has presented numerous professional development programs at the national, state, and local levels.

Dr. Gross is a member of the International Coach Federation and the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

Marceta Reilly, PhD, has 42 years of experience in education, moving from teacher to principal to school superintendent in Kansas. Her vision and passion were to create schools that were welcoming to students and families, and centers of learning and success for the entire community.

Dr. Reilly is now a leadership coach and has the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coach Federation. She is a founding member of Coaching for Results, Inc., and dedicated to partnering with school leaders who are doing transformational work. She uses coaching conversations to help her clients gain insight and confidence, and she helps build their capacity to be extraordinary leaders, based on their individual, innate strengths.

Dr. Reilly regularly conducts workshops about coaching conversations. She is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences, and has been invited to present these ideas to audiences in China (2007) and India (2009).

Learn more at  http://marcetareilly.com/leadership-that-inspires.