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Evoking Greatness

Coaching to Bring Out the Best in Educational Leaders

Addressing the needs of leadership coaches for guidance and professional development, this inspiring and engaging resource outlines the evocative coaching model that generates the collaborative dialogue, empathy, and self-efficacy essential for designing change.

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781506377803
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2017
  • Page Count: 240
  • Publication date: July 20, 2017

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Discover coaching strategies to inspire greatness in any educational leader!

Centered on evocative coaching, a person-centered, no-fault, strengths-based coaching model, this book will equip those who coach educational leaders to host engaging and productive coaching conversations. Coaches who read this book will learn to LEAD: Listen, Empathize, Appreciate, and Design, as well as to discover:

  • Guidance for coaching leaders with specific questions, things to listen for, and ways to generate new ideas and motivation
  • Research-based theories that ground the strategies presented in each chapter
  • Real-life vignettes that illustrate the evocative coaching model in action
  • Reflection and discussion questions, templates, and other materials to scaffold the learning of coaches as they innovate their way forward

"Leadership coaching has arisen as a powerful intervention to support the professional learning of leaders. In this book Megan and Bob Tschannen-Moran invite us to see into their world of evocative coaching. They demonstrate how coaching conversations can lead to a flow of energy, enthusiasm and possibilities that bring out movement in people. The authors combine their theoretical knowledge with their experience as coaches, exemplified in wonderful stories and practical examples. As a coach myself I could not stop reading because I was so curious about the next chapter. The book is a great example of how high quality professional learning can enhance educational leaders' daily leadership practice."

—Marit Aas, Associate Professor
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Megan Tschannen-Moran

Megan Tschannen-Moran (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) is a Professor of Educational Leadership at the William & Mary School of Education. Inspired by her fourteen years of experience as the founder and principal of a school serving primarily low-income and minority students in a distressed neighborhood of Chicago, she is motivated to work at the intersection of theory and practice so that schools grow in their capacity to serve all students well. The coaching model presented in this book sits squarely at that intersection. Megan’s scholarly research focuses on relationships of trust in school settings and how these are related to important outcomes such as the collective efficacy beliefs of a school faculty, teacher professionalism, and student achievement. Her book Trust Matters: Leadership for Successful Schools (2nd Ed.) (2014) reports the experience of three principals and the consequences of their successes and failures to build trust. Another line of research explores school climate through the Vibrant School Scale that assesses the degree to which a school fosters enlivened minds, emboldened voice, and playful learning.


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Bob Tschannen-Moran

Bob Tschannen-Moran (M. Div., Yale University) served as the President of LifeTrek Coaching International and as CEO of the Center for School Transformation (www.schooltransformation.com). Bob is a past-President of the International Association of Coaching (www.CertifiedCoach.org). He trained a s a business and life coach through Coach U, CoachVille, FastTrack Coaching Academy, and Wellcoaches Corporation. He served on the faculty of the Wellcoaches Coach Training School and co-authored a Coaching Psychology Manual (2nd Ed) (2015) with Margaret Moore and Erika Jackson. His work on Skills and Performance Coaching is included in The Complete Handbook of Coaching (3rd Ed.) (2017, Sage Publications). Using a variety of strengths-based approaches, Bob has assisted many individuals and organizations, including schools, congregations, and corporations, to build positive relationships and to achieve positive results.


Table of Contents

Table of Contents

PREFACE


ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


ABOUT THE AUTHORS


CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION

The Promise and Practice of Coaching

The Five Concerns of Coaching

The Dynamic Dance of Evocative Coaching

Why Evocative Coaching Works

Key Points in This Chapter

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

CHAPTER 2 COACHING PRESENCE

Evocative Coaching as a Way of Being

The Mindful Coach

Fostering Trust and Rapport

Holding the Coaching Space

Conveying Coaching Presence

Creative Energy Check-In

Coaching Presence in Lateral and Vertical Relationships

The First Coaching Session

Key Points in This Chapter

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

INTERLUDE: LOOP I: THE NO-FAULT TURN


CHAPTER 3 LISTENING FOR STORIES

The Story of Principal A and Principal B

The Power of Story

Evoking Coachable Stories

Attentive Listening

Imaginative Story Listening

Key Points in This Chapter

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

CHAPTER 4 EXPRESSING EMPATHY

Understanding Empathy

Leading With Heart

The Language of Compassion

The Golden Sigh

Key Points in This Chapter

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

INTERLUDE: LOOP II: THE STRENGTHS-BUILDING TURN


The Learning Brief

CHAPTER 5 APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

The Principles of Appreciative Inquiry

SOAR: Illuminating the Best of What Is and What Might Be

SOARing Into the Future

Key Points in This Chapter

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

CHAPTER 6 DESIGN THINKING

Designing SMARTER Experiments

Choreographing the Coaching Dance

Key Points in This Chapter

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

CHAPTER 7 THE DYNAMIC FLOW OF CHANGE

Getting Into Flow

Rolling With Resistance

Honoring Ambivalence

Getting out of the Way

Coaching as a Catalyst for Systems Change

Key Points in This Chapter

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

CHAPTER 8 THE REFLECTIVE COACH

Coaching the Self

Hearing Our Own Story

Self-Empathy

Inquiring Into Our Own Professional Practice

Designing Our Own SMARTER Experiments

Professional Coaching Code of Ethics

Conclusion

Key Points in This Chapter

Questions for Reflection and Discussion

APPENDIX: EVOCATIVE COACHING PRINCIPLES, QUESTIONS, AND REFLECTIONS


REFERENCES


INDEX


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