California Network of School Leadership Coaches

New Links to Articles

Links to two new articles have been added to the site.

The first article, "Scaffolding School Leaders," by Suzette Lovely, talks about the importance of coaching based induction for new administrators.

The second article, "Emotionally Intelligent Principals," by Gary Bloom, talks about the emotional intelligence challenges faced by new administrators and the value of coaching in helping principals to address those challenges.

CHECK OUT THE REINVENTING EDUCATION CHANGE TOOLKIT!

The interactive Reinventing Education Change Toolkit, developed by IBM in collaboration with Harvard University Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, is a resource for leadership development and management of large-scale or small-scale change initiatives in school. Click on http://www.reinventingeducation.org/RE3Web/. You can work on a specific change initiative or real-life challenge and receive suggestions and responses from the Change Toolkit. You can also just browse through for templates and tools. Access to the Toolkit requires a free registration that just takes a couple of minutes.

MANY CLASS TOOL KIT ITEMS AVAILABLE AS WORD DOCUMENTS!

Go to the Tools & Resources Module on this web site and you will find 30 of your favorite, most-often used, CLASS Tool Kit pdf files now also available as Word documents. That means you can adapt/revise/customize many Tool Kit forms, charts, and other graphic organizers specifically for your work with your coachees!

FROM NEW ZEALAND'S MINISTRY OF EDUCATION:

1) The book, Mentoring and Coaching for New Leaders, by Andy Hobson, discusses a variety of mentoring and coaching strategies used to assist the development of new school principals in New Zealand and what the evidence tells us about the effectiveness of these strategies. Link to www.leadspace.govt.NZ/leadership/prof_development/learning_strategy.php

2) The article, "Help for First-Time Principals" in the Education Gazette/Tukutuku Korero (5 May 2003) describes the role mentoring plays in the First Time Principals Programme. Click on http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/articles/show_articles.cgi?id=6402

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

1) Staffing the Principalship: Finding, Coaching, and Mentoring School Leaders, by Suzette Lovely, available from www.ascd.org includes:

Chapter 4 - Supporting a Principal's First Years on the Job
Chapter 5 - Helping Principals Continue to Grow

Focusing on the interaction between consultant and client, this volume explains how to achieve the healthy relationship so essential to effective consultation.

2) Process Consultation Revisited: Building the Helping Relationship by Edgar Schein focuses on the interaction between consultant and client, explaining how to achieve the healthy helping relationship so essential to effective consultation.
Available from www.amazon.com.