Traditional administrative development programs can provide foundational information and may develop basic administrative skills and awareness of the components of effective instruction, but such foundations will not ultimatley determine the new principal's success or failure. Success is not merely determined by one's knowledge, but by one's ability to lead. Leadership need for today's schools can only be fully developed through on-site, of-the-moment, reality-based experience. Effective development of the principal on-the-job can be rapidly enhanced through leadership coaching. Moreover, leadership coaching develops the principal's awareness, anticipation, thinking, behaviro, and communication to promote sustained growth.

Coaching:

• Provides one-on-one, individualized, job embedded, site based support service to the site leader
• Utilizes well-researched Blended Coaching strategies developed by UC Santa Cruz New Teacher Center
• Designed to deliver highly individualized leadership development through consultation, collaboration, reflection, and building of capacity
• Builds upon a principal-coach relationship founded upon a high level of professional ethics, appropriate confidentiality, competence and trust
• Conveyed by carefully selected, trained, certified, successful, recently retired superintendents whose leadership experiences closely match the challenges faced by the coachee
• Builds anticipation, planning, administration, reflection
• Based upon a trusting, confidential relationship between coach and coachee
• Focused on growth and development, non-judgmental, non-evaluative

Program Services include:

• Average of 6 hours/month of onsite coaching
• Average 2 hours/month of phone/email coaching
• One-on-one
• Resources, research, strategies
• Goal-oriented and data-driven

Also included: Utilization of Blended Coaching tools including:

• Collaborative logs
• Reflective self-assessments
• 360 degree instruments
• Observations in settings appropriate to goals including:
• Classroom walkthroughs
• Leadership Team meetings
• Staff meetings
• Community meetings/events
• Parent meetings

Focus upon building leadership capacity, collaborative skills, effective communication, positive productive behavior that contributes to effective professional relationships and building of professional community

For program information, contact:

Michael Bossi, Leadership Coaching Director
ACSA Educational Services
800.608.2272

Betsy Warren, Outreach Coordinator
New Teacher Center at UCSC
831.459.1431