“It’s Changed How I Lead”: Developing Leadership Coaches in a Leadership Coaching Community

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Abstract

Educational leaders require effective strategies to address localized problems. Leadership coaching is an effective approach to developing school leaders’ abilities to enact such strategies. Yet, leaders in rural and high-poverty schools typically have little access to leadership coaches. In this article, we explore the development of experienced school leaders as coaches for less experienced leaders from rural and high-poverty schools to utilize improvement science to affect positive change. We highlight how providing coaching education in a leadership coaching community (LCC) prepared 14 coaches for their new roles. The experiences of leadership coaches in the LCC illustrate the transformative potential of developing leadership coaches as a powerful strategy for enhancing school leadership development.

Authors

• Angela Carter, Clemson University

• Hans W. Klar, Clemson University

• Susan E. Purser, Clemson University

• Noelle A. Paufler, Clemson University

• Nancy Bowers, Clemson University

• Michael Delaney

• Betty Bagley, Clemson University