Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching: What Every K-12 Coach and School Leader Needs to Know

Student-Centered Coaching is an evidence-based model of professional learning that focuses on student outcomes. It emphasizes how coaching can be asset-based and focused on equity, current research in adult learning and professional development, and how to integrate curriculum into coaching. The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching provides guidance and practical advice to help coaches navigate the complexities associated with their role, and helps educators realize collective impact.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 29 July 2020
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc

Student-Centered Coaching is an evidence-based model of professional learning that focuses on student outcomes. Diane Sweeney and Leanna Harris, whose best-selling books have influenced the practice of thousands of K-12 coaches, frame how Student-Centered Coaching serves as an evidence-based model of professional learning that focuses on student outcomes. Shifting the focus from fixing teachers to partnering with them to reach goals for student learning takes coaching to the heart of what matters most in schools.

The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching includes all-new material that is grounded in the latest research and the authors extensive experience in the field of coaching. In it, readers will find:

An emphasis on how coaching can be asset-based and focused on equity.

Current research in adult learning and professional development.

Examples of how to integrate curriculum into coaching cycles.

Anecdotes that illustrate what Student-Centered Coaching looks like across grade levels and content areas.

Designed to accompany Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves (Corwin, 2017) and Leading Student-Centered Coaching (2019), The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching provides the reader with a clear vision for how coaching can promote both teacher and student learning.

In an honest and heartfelt voice, Diane and Leanna provide guidance and practical advice to help coaches navigate the complexities associated with their role. Diane and Leanna's passion to ensure that student learning stays at the center of improvement work is evident throughout this book as they paint a path of implementation for coaching that will help educators in realizing collective impact.

Weight: 380g
Dimension: 176 x 254 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781544375359