the art of coaching teams chapter summary

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A very helpful book for educational leaders. Focus on Emotional Intelligence, transformative, equitable approach such as the SMART-e goals where e=equity. There is a lot of great information that I will use.An excellent resource for anyone attempting to coach teachers and administrators. Welcome back. This includes literacy, numeracy and so on.

The 6 Team Conditions framework serves as the foundation for my team coaching practice.

Tim Gallwey (2000, p. 177)” I wouldn't recommend reading this book cover to cover but use it more as a reference. Frankly, I couldn’t break down what I was doing as a coach. Coaches, administrators, and teachers would benefit from this book. Yet, in our dominant mindset about what it means to be professional, we don’t talk about emotions; we don’t even acknowledge that they exist.Jim: I think this is going to be your most important book.Elena: I definitely want to do a session on emotional resilience at TLC.Jim: What are some of the core ideas in your approach to coaching?Elena: I got to the emotional resilience ideas through my core approach to coaching, transformational coaching. We are coaching around them; we are seeing the connections between them. For the full details and additional tips on coaching/asking effective questions, do get a copy of the book , or get a detailed overview with our complete book summary bundle . These beliefs to me are fundamental to courage.

For example, let’s say I’m in a coaching conversation with you, and you observe me in the classroom standing in front of the room. It needs to include strategies around how to talk about despair and how to have conversations that that combine our lenses and our concerns about equity and racial equity.Jim: What would you say is a good metaphor for what coaches do?Elena: The metaphor that resonates most for me is that a coach is like a farmer. 1118206533

Elena: I was catapulted into a coaching position, somewhat of my own willingness and a little bit because our school needed someone to work with our new teachers. I find this a little disconcerting, so I hope that there might be opportunities for more conversation about what coaching really is, how we measure the impact, what the indicators of success are, how we train coaches, and the definition of the role and responsibilities of a coach to stress that coaches are not the people who are also putting up bulletin boards and doing yard duty, printing out data reports, and covering for teachers when their sub doesn’t show. The second biggest was the importance of always working on being a better listener and to prepare for debriefings thoughtfully. I appreciated that. Simply put, the experience has been revelatory.Awesome read - her beliefs are very aligned to TFA/eliminating educational equity and her practice is logical and replicable.

The book has an extremely specific target audience--full-time coaches of teachers and administrators.

The holistic approach to coaching was as one and this book helped me be successful in my first year of coaching.Great resource for anyone in education, even if you are not an instructional coach. That value is around building equitable schools and interrupting the systems that reproduce the status quo and don’t result in every child thriving, learning, graduating, or feeling accepted and embraced in a school.Jim: What have been some of your key learnings over the past few years?Elena: Definitely the topic of emotions. Start by marking “The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation” as Want to Read:

So, the metaphor here is the humility and the patience of the farmer and also an awareness that the farmer has a system – an understanding that you can think you have everything set up really well, and you can plant that seed, but it doesn’t grow, and that it may have nothing to do with your skill set.Jim: What else do people need to know about your approach to coaching?Elena: I think another key idea is that if you’re engaged in and committed to doing transformational work with others, you also have to do that work for yourself. That’s the story of The Art of Coaching, which came out in 2013, about nine years after I started coaching. Team members learn to have open dialogue, to share concerns and fears and to work with constructive, empathetic challenge. There's a lot to unpack in this book. Kevin McAlpin & Hans Vaagenes Whatever kind of coaching you do, decision-making is often the most vital skill you can develop in your clients. “We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.