Coaching for Administrator Preparation and Leadership Development: Learnings, Benefits, and Challenges

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

The proposed symposium explores practices related to use of coaches in the preparation and professional development of school administrators. Five papers are included. Paper #1 examines the perspectives of coaches trained to support aspiring leaders during a one-year internship. Paper 2 examines a principal certification program that hired coaches to work with administrative interns. Paper 3 reports the perceptions of participants in a coach training program for school leaders and educational coaches. Paper 4 examines the experiences of leadership coaches and new administrators in a university-based coaching program from 2006-2011. Paper 5 reports the results of a five-year study examining the experiences of leadership coaches and beginning administrators; it provides a meta-analysis of coaching goals and evidence of results.

Sub Unit

• Division A - Administration / Section 5: Leadership Development

Chair

• Arnold B. Danzig, Arizona State University

Papers

• Coach Perspectives on Changes in Personal Leadership - Ann O'Doherty, University of Washington; Mark A. Gooden, The University of Texas - Austin; Margaret Terry Orr, Bank Street College of Education

• Coaching Principal Interns: How External Coaches Deepen Theory-Practice Connections in a Principal Preparation Program - Arnold B. Danzig, Arizona State University

• Coaching for Professionalism and Growth - Megan Tschannen-Moran, College of William and Mary

• Coaching School Leaders: Experiences of Administrators and Coaches - Michael Silver, Seattle University; Chad Lochmiller, Washington State University

• Coaching Novice Principals in a University-District Partnership: Coming to an Understanding of Goals and Results - Lynda Tredway, University of California - Berkeley