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| Introduction | |
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| Coaching for Transformation | |
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| What Might a Transformed Education System Be Like? | |
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| One Purpose and Two Promises | |
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| Where I'm Coming from and Who This Book Is For | |
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| Summary of the Contents and How to Use This Book | |
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| A Couple Notes | |
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| Foundations of Coaching | |
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| How Can Coaching Transform Schools? | |
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| A Story about What Coaching Can Do | |
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| What Will It Take to Transform Our Schools? | |
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| A New Tool Kit Based on Ancient Knowledge | |
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| What Can Coaching Do for a School? What Does the Research Say? | |
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| The Necessary Conditions | |
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| Speaking of Race | |
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| The Value of Coaching | |
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| What Is Coaching? | |
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| A Story about a Coach Who Didn't Know What She Was | |
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| Why We Need a Definition | |
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| What Are the Different Coaching Models? | |
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| A Vision for Coaching | |
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| A Coach Who Knows Who She Is and Can Travel Back in Time | |
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| Which Beliefs Help a Coach Be More Effective? | |
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| The Dangers of Unmonitored Beliefs | |
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| The Basics about Beliefs | |
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| Coaching Beliefs and Core Values | |
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| My Transformational Coaching Manifesto | |
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| Identifying and Using Your Coaching Beliefs | |
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| What Must a Coach Know? | |
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| Introducing New Coaching Tools: Coaching Lenses | |
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| A Story about a Teacher Who Seems to Struggle with Classroom Management: Part 1 | |
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| A Story about a Teacher Who Seems to Struggle with Classroom Management: Part 2 | |
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| When Will I Use These Lenses? | |
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| Establishing Coaching with a Client | |
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| Beginning a Coaching Relationship: How Do I Develop Trust with a Coachee? | |
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| "Without Trust There Can Be No Coaching" | |
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| A Story about Trust | |
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| What Is Trust? | |
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| Useful Lenses for This Stage | |
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| Ten Steps to Building Trust | |
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| Assessing Levels of Trust | |
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| "The Thin Cord of Trust" | |
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| The Exploration Stage: What Do I Need to Know at the Outset? | |
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| From the Edge of the Field | |
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| The Stage of Exploration | |
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| Useful Lenses for This Stage | |
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| Ten Steps in Exploration | |
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| Moving on to Planning | |
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| Developing a Work Plan: How Do I Determine What to Do? | |
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| What Role Does a Work Plan Play? | |
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| Useful Lenses for This Stage | |
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| Developing a Work Plan | |
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| How Do I Use This Work Plan? | |
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| The Coaching Dance | |
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| Listening and Questioning | |
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| The Three Movements in the Coaching Dance | |
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| Listening in Transformational Coaching | |
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| Listening as a Vehicle for Whole-School Transformation | |
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| Questioning in Transformational Coaching | |
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| Facilitative Coaching Conversations | |
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| Coaching Conversations | |
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| Facilitative Coaching | |
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| Facilitative Coaching Activities | |
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| Engaging Clients in Learning Activities | |
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| Scaffolding the Learning | |
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| Facilitative Coaching Activities | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Directive Coaching Conversations | |
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| When Is Directive Coaching Useful? | |
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| A Story about a Principal Who Needed a Directive Coaching Stance | |
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| Mental Models | |
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| The Confrontational Approach | |
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| The Informative Approach | |
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| The Prescriptive Approach | |
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| Coaching for Systems Change: Institutional Mind-Sets | |
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| Directive Coaching Activities | |
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| Further Engaging in Learning Activities | |
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| Observations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Technical Tips and Habits of Mind | |
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| Tricks of the Trade | |
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| Scheduling | |
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| Planning for a Coaching Conversation | |
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| The Arc of a Coaching Conversation | |
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| Logistics during a Conversation | |
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| Coach Responsibility during Conversation | |
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| Closing the Conversation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reflection and Assessment: What's Next? | |
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| A Midyear Crisis | |
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| The Midyear and End-of-Year Reflection | |
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| Coaching for Systems Change | |
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| Professional Development for Coaches | |
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| What Is Professional Development for Coaches? | |
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| The Importance of a Team | |
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| Professional Development for Coaches | |
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| Developing Reflective Practices | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A Final Story | |
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| The Road Ahead | |
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| Fearlessness and Faith | |
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| The Coach's Optical Refractor (The Coaching Lenses) | |
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| Coaching Sentence Stems | |
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| Facilitative Coaching | |
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| Directive Coaching | |
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| Transformational Coaching Rubric | |
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| Cheat Sheets and Lists | |
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| Essential Frameworks for Transformational Coaching | |
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| Coaching for Systems Change | |
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| Tips for Using Different Approaches | |
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| The Coaching Conversation | |
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| Five Steps for a Midyear or End-of-Year Reflection | |
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| Recommended Resources | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |