Foreword Acknowledgments About the Authors Preface Matrix of Stories 1. What is a Coaching Conversation? Coach Leader Man-Feeding the Hunger! by Vicky Dearing 2. Discovering and Using Your Core Values From Terminator to Hope Builder by Marceta Reilly A Yearning for More by Karen Anderson Courage at the Core by Riva Korashan Leading With Your Core Values by Dave Winans 3. Building Trust and Community Better Late Than Never by Linda Gross Cheliotes Language Matters by Karen Anderson The Safest Haven by Dave Winans From Parent Intrusion to Parent Involvement by Diana Williams 4. Holding Up High Expectations for All Finding Your Leadership Voice by Marceta Reilly Being Contagious Makes You Better by Karen Anderson Turning Around a Failing School by Sandee Crowther 5. Changing How We Change I Want To...But by Linda Gross Cheliotes The Crucial "Aha" Moment by Gina Marx Changing a Relationship Through Language by Kathy Kee Acting out My Future-Life is Just a Performance by Joan Hearne 6. Getting Genuine Buy-In: Framing Expectations to Support Change Reflected Glory by Sue Kidd Scoring With the Music Teacher by Kathy Kee It's In the Details by Bob Carter Change Happens One By One by Joan Hearne 7. Engaging in Difficult Conversations Moving Staff Up or Out by Marceta Reilly Reflection: A Closer Look by Joan Hearne A Marginal Teacher Spurs the Evolution of a Coach Leader by Gina Marx Facing Our Dragons by Kathy Kee 8. Changing Blamers Into Believers Softening Discipline At the Edges by Marceta Reilly Caught In the Middle by Reba Schumacher Nobody At This School Gets Me! by Frances Shuster 9. Everyone is Accountable Monkey Collector by Linda Gross Cheliotes Whose Problem-Whose Solution? by Sandee Crowther Just Call Me Mom by Linda Gross Cheliotes Middle School Under Attack by Edna Harris 10. Balancing Personal and Professional Commitments Sitting on a Seesaw by Linda Gross Cheliotes The 180 Degree Turnaround by Linda Gross Cheliotes Reframing Balance by Riva Korashan Running In Circles by Marceta Reilly 11. Navigating Successful Life Transitions Rewiring by Linda Gross Cheliotes I Feel Like a Failure by Dayna Richardson Investing In the Next Steps by Joan Hearne 12. Summary Appendix References Index
A companion and follow-up to Coaching Conversations, this book strives to deepen readers' thinking about the skills of coaching conversations. This workbook of real-life examples for all levels of school leaders will help them think through typical issues they face and give them ideas about new, coach-like ways to respond. Through stories, conversations, and reflections, this text serves as an effective tool for engaging and motivating everyone in the school community to work together to create extraordinary schools places of learning that inspire and engage students to become even more than they could dream. The authors motivate and support school leaders at all levels to make such transformation happen!
Consulting Description 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. Consulting Description 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.