Leading Like a C.O.A.C.H.

Expand your leadership capacity to help your school reach its potential

All schools have the capacity for schoolwide instructional excellence. Schools with leaders who adopt a coaching stance as part of their practice are more likely to realize this success. Leaders achieve successwiththeir teachers, their students, and their families, not alone.

Leading like a C.O.A.C.H.reframes the approach to schoolwide change from a leader acting alone to a leader workingwith a community in which each member contributestheir strengths and ideas to improving instruction.Renwick, a well-known blogger and writer on literacy and leadership,encourages school leaders to embody five practices: 1.Create confidence through trust; 2.Organize around a priority; 3.Affirm promising practices; 4.Communicate feedback; and 5.Help teachers become leaders and learners. Throughout this practical guide, readers will find

• Reflective questions
• Activities
• Indicators of success
• Examples of leaders coaching teachers to excellence
• Wisdom from the field

This book provides new and veteran leaders with a practical approach and easily adoptable ideas for helping their schools realize their full potential.