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Coaching Educational Leadership

Building Leadership Capacity through Partnership
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By: Jan Robertson
Coaching Educational Leadership is about building leadership capacity in individuals, and in institutions, through enhancing professional relationships. It is based on the importance of maximizing potential and harnessing the ongoing commitment and energy needed to meet personal and professional goals. Based on over a decade of research and development, nationally and internationally, Coaching Educational Leadership brings you the empirical evidence, the principles, and the skills to be able to develop your own leadership and that of others you work with.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781847874030
  • Published By: Sage UK
  • Series: Published in association with the British Educational Leadership and Management Society
  • Year: 2008
  • Page Count: 216
  • Publication date: April 07, 2008

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"Jan Robertson's splendid book not only articulately advocates the necessity of leadership coaching, but sets out what good coaching can, and should, look like."
—Andy Hargreaves, Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education
Boston College

Coaching Educational Leadership is about building leadership capacity in individuals, and in institutions, through enhancing professional relationships. It is based on the importance of maximizing potential, and harnessing the ongoing commitment and energy needed to meet personal and professional goals.

Based on more than a decade of research and development, nationally and internationally, Coaching Educational Leadership brings you the empirical evidence, the principles, and the skills to develop your own leadership and that of your colleagues. 

Key Features

  • Challenges you to critically reflect on your leadership and professional relationships
  • Offers practical activities and exercises
  • Describes leadership coaching based on reciprocal processes
  • Seeks to connect theory and practice
  • Provides a basis for workshop activities in coaching, appraisal, and mentoring

Coaching Educational Leadership assists educators who believe in the development of leadership at all levels to dialogue effectively with professional colleagues for the improvement of leadership practice.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Jan Robertson

Jan Robertson’s expertise focuses on professional learning and leadership development. In particular, her work in leadership coaching and boundary breaking leadership development has highlighted the importance of self-awareness and knowledge of others in leadership. Developing deep learning relationships is at the heart of effective leadership. Jan's model of coaching is built on the principles of partnership and reciprocity, thus enabling the lateral sharing of innovation in the workplace. Jan believes it is her role as a leadership educator, to “... challenge, provoke, affirm, present ideas, and seek commitment to thinking about change and innovation in places of learning, for meeting the needs of tomorrow’s leaders.” Jan’s work includes action learning in the corporate sector, developing learning organizations and action research for education development, and leading and understanding change in personal, professional and organizational development. Jan brings more than 30 years experience to her work internationally. Previous positions include Director Educational Leadership Centre and Associate Professor at the University of Waikato; and more recently the Director of the London Centre for Leadership in Learning at the Institute of Education, where she is currently a Visiting Fellow. Jan was a Fulbright scholar in 1992, travelling throughout the USA studying leadership development in the education and business sectors. She is committed to innovation in education and harnessing the potential of Information Communication Technology to personalize learning and transform learning spaces. Her bestselling book is Coaching educational leadership: Building leadership capacity through partnership available through Amazon and NZCER Press. Jan is a highly sought after workshop and change facilitator, coach and keynote presenter, internationally.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

PART ONE: THEORY


Introduction

The Concept and Role of Educational Leadership

Learning for Leadership

The Value of Shared Learning

Action Research and Coaching

PART TWO: PRACTICE


Getting Underway

Coaching the Skills that Build Trust

Coaching the Skills that Move Leaders Forward

Troubleshooting and Monitoring the Coaching Relationship

Facilitating Coaching

Leaders Coaching Leaders

Developing Agency

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