The Leader's Guide to Coaching in Schools: Creating Conditions for Effective Learning

Grow your leadership skills to bring out the best in your school!

Hallways, parking lots, staff rooms―these are all places where you and your staff have conversations every day. What if you could use these opportunities to build your staff’s resiliency and empower them to reach their goals. The Leader’s Guide to Coaching in Schools offers a proven, accessible, and usable framework to increase your interpersonal effectiveness and grow your ability to coach your staff to overcome obstacles and create their own solutions. Coaching experts John Campbell and Christian van Nieuwerburgh demonstrate how coaching is not just for formal coaching relationships, but how a coaching approach can be applied throughout a school day to create a culture of growth. Through sample questions, video examples, and tools this step-by-step guide shows you how to:

• Introduce a coaching approach into a wide range of conversational contexts
• Use the GROWTH coaching conversation framework to improve both staff and student success and well-being
• Use coaching approaches in areas that school leaders typically find challenging: in formal performance reviews, when giving informal feedback, and when working with teams

Help your staff get "unstuck" no matter what challenges they are facing by using solutions-focused coaching techniques that help them envision desired outcomes and the actions needed to achieve them.

"The GROWTH coaching model should be in every administrator’s hand as their bible for school improvement. Having this guide will guarantee success and getting the best out of all stakeholders."

―Elizabeth Alvarez, Principal
John C. Dore Elementary, Chicago, IL

"The book is just what the doctor ordered for busy leaders―short and concise."

―B.R. Jones, Superintendent of Education
Tate County School District, Senatobio, MS

John Campbell is the Founding Director of Growth Coaching International, an organisation that provides coaching and professional learning services for school leaders and teachers across Australia, New Zealand and the world. John has worked as a high school teacher, curriculum development adviser, and management consultant in the corporate sector. He has co-authored several books on the topic of coaching in education, including The Leaders’ Guide to Coaching in Schools: Creating Conditions for Effective Learning and Growth Talk: A Coaching Way of Leading in Schools. He is a leading figure in the field of coach training and regularly delivers workshops and keynote presentations on coaching in education throughout Australia and internationally.

Christian van Nieuwerburgh is Professor of Coaching and Positive Psychology at the Centre for Positive Health Sciences at RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences (Ireland) and Strategic Partner of the Instructional Coaching Group, a global provider of coach training and consultancy for the education sector. In recognition of his contributions to the fields of coaching and positive psychology, he is Principal Fellow of the Centre for Wellbeing Science at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne (Australia). Christian is a certified executive coach and has authored, co-authored, and edited numerous books and publications on coaching and positive psychology. His best-known books include An Introduction to Coaching Skills: A Practical Guide and Radical Listening: The Art of True Connection. Christian regularly speaks internationally on the topics of coaching, positive psychology, and well-being.