1 online resource (258 pages) : : illustrations.

Second edition.

1. THE IMPROVEMENT CHALLENGE --. - 2. HOW CHANGE FOR IMPROVEMENT OCCURS --. - 3. IT DEPENDS ON LEADERSHIP --. - 4. THE THREE STAGES OF WHOLE-SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT --. - 5. STAGE 1: THE PRECONDITIONS --. - 6. STAGE 2: BUILDING TEACHING CAPACITY --. - 7. STAGE 3: IMPROVING CLASSROOM PRACTICE --. - 8. CLASSROOM OBSERVATION TO SUPPORT THE SHIFT --. - A coaching culture for all --. - A coaching plan is a must --. - A leadership framework to consider --. - A note on differentiating your delivery --. - A word on data --. - Adding success criteria to the mix --. - An effective PLT --. - An orderly learning environment where students are well known --. - Building a strong and united leadership team --. - Building baseline capacity --. - Building coaching capacity in your school --. - CONCLUSION.. - Can we only do one thing? --. - Carrying people with you --. - Changing behaviour --. - Coaching to build leadership capacity and drive improvement --. - Developing an instructional model --. - Diagnose before you prescribe --. - Do a manageable amount --. - Drilling down into classroom practice --. - Effect sizes --. - Effective professional learning --. - Ensuring the preconditions are in place --. - Explicit instruction --. - Feedback from students --. - Feedback to students --. - Guiding norms --. - High expectations for students and staff --. - Leadership - the precondition of the preconditions --. - Leadership for whole-school improvement --. - Learning goals as the entry point --. - Making the instructional model happen in your school --. - Manuals to support implementation --. - Monitoring implementation --. - No coaching at your school yet? Start here... --. - Options for classroom observation --. - Overview of the four preconditions --. - Phasing the introduction of PLTs: An approach to consider --. - Planning good lessons --. - Processes and pro formas for effective classroom observation --. - Putting first things first --. - Quality of feedback --. - Quality success criteria --. - Review and reflection: The Queechy Alliance --. - Role clarity for coaches, teachers and leaders --. - Selecting and developing coaches --. - Stay the course --. - Structures for collaboration so more can work like the best --. - The "good standing" program --. - The detailed framework and thinking behind it --. - The difference teachers make --. - The difference the school can make --. - The focus of feedback --. - The journey from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence --. - The power of good questions --. - The purposes of classroom observation --. - Theories of action --. - Use research wisely --. - Using an instructional model for consistently more effective teaching --. - What can leadership coaching achieve? --. - What is effective feedback? --. - What is leadership coaching in schools? --. - What makes the difference to student learning outcomes? --. - Writing good learning goals --. - You have coaching at your school already? Try this... --

Electronic books.

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174286550X. - 9781742865492. - 9781742865508