Evocative coaching: transforming schools one conversation at a time

There's a lot of conversation about how to make schools better. Unfortunately, the nature of those conversations often makes things worse. Evocative Coaching: Transforming Schools One Conversation at a Time maps out a way to change that. By taking a teacher-centered, no-fault, strengths-based approach to performance improvement, the Evocative Coaching model generates the motivation and movement that enables teachers and schools to achieve desired outcomes and enhance quality of life. Viewed as a dynamic dance, the model is choreographed infour steps--Story, Empathy, Inquiry, Design--that are each laid out in their own chapter with powerful illustrative materials and end-of-chapter discussionquestions to prompt further reflection. Bringing together the best research and wisdom in educational leadership and professional coaching, authors Bob andMegan Tschannen-Moran have developed a simple yet profound way of facilitating new conversations in schools through Story Listening, Expressing Empathy, Appreciative Inquiry, and Design Thinking. It's an iterative process that moves beyond old ways of thinking, doing, and being. It's an inspirational process that reinvigorates the passion for making schools better, one conversation at atime. Each chapter provides a research-based theory to support the strategiespresented, and includes specific suggestions and anecdotes. The Evocative Coaching model makes coaching enjoyable by getting people to focus on what they do best, and it invites larger, more integral conversations so that people talkabout their work in the context of other things they care about. Resting on strong, evidence-based practices, the Evocative Coaching model offers educatorsthe help they need to meet the challenges of increased accountability and expectations. This model can also be used effectively by coaches and leaders in other organizational contexts.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-54759-5
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 30/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés