Developing Experienced Leaders' Coaching Capacities: A Preliminary Analysis of a Research Practice Partnership

• In Event: 34.065 - Leaders and Change in Policy and Practice

Abstract

In this paper we report the preliminary findings of a study of a research-practice partnership designed to enhance the leadership coaching capacities of experienced school and district leaders in 12 rural, high-poverty school districts in the southeastern United States. The purpose of the two-year partnership, called the Leadership Learning Community (LLC), is to provide cross-district, job-embedded, and personalized leadership and leadership coaching development opportunities to nine school leaders and six leadership coaches. Leadership development activities occurred in professional communities and job-embedded coaching sessions. The findings of the design-based study highlight the possibilities and challenges of developing the leadership coaching capacities of experienced school leaders to assist school leaders in leading sustainable school improvement efforts through a professional community.

Authors

• Kristin Shawn Huggins, Washington State University

• Hans W. Klar, Clemson University

• Frederick Chaim Buskey, Clemson University

• Julie K Desmangles, Clemson University

• Robin Phelps-Ward, Clemson University