Leading Student-Centered Coaching

Building Principal and Coach Partnerships

Essential leadership moves for supporting instructional coaching in your school

Strong leadership is essential in any successful instructional coaching effort. This action-oriented guide provides principals and district leaders with the background, practices, and tools required for leading coaching efforts that have a measurable impact on student and teacher learning. Filled with ideas that school leaders can easily apply, this book includes: 

• Tools and techniques for preparing a school for coaching, launching a coaching culture, and supporting coaches
• Leadership moves and lessons from the field that provide strategies for building principal and coach partnerships 
• Recommendations for coaches to use as they strive to increase their impact