Welcome and Purpose:
While much of educational coaching centers on instruction, this session delves into the power of leadership coaching by exploring four advanced skills. Participants will use a digital tool to share their level of expertise as coaches and engage in a quick partner talk.
Leadership Decision Tree:
To differentiate between a problem and a preference, the group will review a decision tree with guiding questions. Pairs or small groups will discuss how the decision tree applies to a recent experience in their current role.
Advanced Coaching Skills for Effective Leadership:
Participants will examine four advanced coaching skills and how they can be applied to various scenarios. Participants will learn how to frame with purpose, ask permission, craft impactful metaphors, and manage the inner critic to make their coaching sessions more impactful. Following the introduction of each advanced skill, participants will analyze scenarios and review sample questions to help them master each new skill. Then they will engage in a discussion to determine how they can integrate these advanced skills to address an upcoming challenge.
Personal Reflection & Wrap-up:
Participants will share the advanced coaching skill they plan to use during an upcoming coaching conversation. Then they will share one-word takeaways about their collective learning. Participants will get a link to additional digital resources after the session ends. Themes from the collective responses will be shared with the group. Participants will also have access to additional digital resources they can reference after the session ends.
After this session, participants will be able to strategically differentiate between a colleague's genuine "problem" (requiring intervention) and a "preference" (an opportunity for advanced coaching). This distinction allows leaders to scale their involvement and expand team capacity. Using a decision tree, small group discussions, and case studies, participants will master four advanced coaching skills: framing with purpose, asking permission, crafting impactful metaphors, and managing the inner critic. These advanced coaching skills allow participants to diagnose their level of involvement and tailor their coaching approach, ultimately saving leaders time and expanding team capacity. Participants will develop a personalized action plan to address a specific challenge, allowing them to apply their new coaching skills in an upcoming conversation.
HEART!: Fully Forming Your Professional Life as a Teacher and Leader by Timothy D. Kanold
The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier
Better Conversations: Coaching Ourselves and Each Other to Be More Credible, Caring, and Connected by Jim Knight
The Art of Coaching Teams: Building Resilient Communities that Transform Schools by Elena Aguilar
Learner Centered Leadership: A Blueprint for Transformational Change in Learning Communities by Devin Vodicka
10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People by David Yeager
Conversational Intelligence by Judith Glaser
Booker, L. N., & Russell, J. L. (2022). Improving teaching practice with instructional coaching. EdResearch for Recovery. https://annenberg.brown.edu/sites/default/files/EdResearch_for_Recovery_Design_Principles_3.pd
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