How to Build an Instructional Coaching Program for Maximum Capacity.

FRONT COVER -- HOW TO BUILD AN INSTRUCTIONAL COACHING PROGRAM FOR MAXIMUM CAPACITY -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Publisher's Acknowledgments -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- CHAPTER 1: PREVAILING WINDS: NAVIGATING THE PERFECT STORM -- Boarding the Ship -- Consulting the Compass: Convincing the Mind -- Feeling the Wind in Your Hair: Convincing the Heart -- Sailing With the Current: Structuring the Practice -- Following North Stars: Understanding Coaching Basics -- Bon Voyage -- CHAPTER 2: DEAD RECKONING: BEGINNING WITH THE END IN MIND -- Let Go of Certainty -- Clarify Your Vision -- Figure Your Present Location -- Strengthen or Abandon -- Determine How Far You Have to Go -- Move From Vision to Plan -- Plan From the Top Down or Bottom Up? -- Start With a Champion Team -- Divide the Labor -- Do Your Research -- Determine Where Coaching Will Fit in With Your Current Initiatives -- Develop an Administrative Model -- Anticipate the Squall -- Summary -- CHAPTER 3: SOUNDING THE DEPTHS: USING DATA FOR REFLECTING, REFINING, AND CELEBRATING -- Identify Program Goals and Coaching Goals -- Determine Your Purpose -- To Evaluate the Program -- To Evaluate Principals or Other Leaders of the Coaching Program -- To Evaluate the Coach -- To Monitor the Effectiveness of Individual Teacher-Coach Relationships -- Determine the Measures to Meet Your Purposes and Goals -- Be Prepared to Face the Challenges and the Treasures -- Determine What Kinds of Data You Will Collect -- Quantitative Data -- Qualitative Data -- Evaluate and Communicate the Results -- Share Assessment Results With Coaches, Teachers, or Administrators -- Celebrate Success -- Summary -- CHAPTER 4: READY, SET, SAIL: SELECTING THE COACHING CREW -- Apply Your Coaching Administrative Model to Your Hiring Plan -- Know What You Want in a Coach -- The Coach Must Be a Visionary.

The Coach Must Be Courageous -- The Coach Must Be a Masterful Teacher -- The Coach Must Be Balanced -- The Coach Must Be a Treasure -- The Coach Must Be a Person of Arête -- Summary: Wrapping Up the Hiring Process -- CHAPTER 5: O, CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN: PREPARING THE PRINCIPAL -- Preparing Principals for Instructional Coaching -- Leading a Change Initiative -- How Instructional Coaching Supports and Facilitates Change -- The Role of the Instructional Coach -- The Role of the Principal -- The Role of the Coaching Champion -- Communication Among Stakeholders -- The Principal-Coach Memorandum of Understanding -- Voices From the Field -- A Sample Plan for Preparing Principals for Coaching -- Summary -- CHAPTER 6: ANCHORS AWEIGH: PREPARING COACHES THROUGH PRESERVICE INSTRUCTION -- Prioritize Specific Knowledge and Skill Sets to Deepen and Refine -- Develop a Preservice Instruction Plan -- Champion the Vision -- Speak the Language -- Know the Community You Serve -- Embrace the Role of Change Facilitator -- Understand Coaching Roles -- Understand Holonomy -- Don't Forget the Captain! -- Summary -- CHAPTER 7: ALL HANDS ON DECK: PREPARING THE TEACHERS AND STAFF -- Smooth Sailing or Rough Seas? -- Start With the Best -- Develop Mini-Champions -- Connect Coaching to One's School and Personal Vision -- Accept Resistance -- Hone the Message -- Use Sticky Ideas -- Tell a Story, Be a Part of a Story -- Know Your Goal: A Culture of Collegiality -- Provide the Appropriate Environment for Coaching -- Perfect Storms -- Summary -- CHAPTER 8: TRIMMING THE SAILS: ONGOING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AND SUPPORT -- Friday Focus and Sí C-C -- Consultants -- Technology Training -- Coach the Coach -- Conferences -- Site Visits -- Coaching Academy Partnership -- Relationship -- Summary -- CHAPTER 9: MOORING THE SHIP: AVALON OR ITHACA? -- Study and Respond to Your Results.

Expand Your Program -- Sustain Your Program -- Change Your Program -- Abandon and Reimagine -- Actualize -- RESOURCES -- REFERENCES -- FACILITATOR'S GUIDE -- REFERENCES FOR FACILITATOR'S GUIDE -- INDEX.

The authors engage school and district leaders with a nautical metaphor that guides them through the journey of developing and sustaining an effective coaching program.

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