Linda M. Gross Cheliotes, Marceta F. Reilly Coaching Conversations

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Focus the power of your collaborative school community with powerful coaching conversations!Effective coaching conversations are powerful tools to rally your school-community stakeholders to work collaboratively toward transformation, and, ultimately, share in success. The Second Edition of this best-selling handbook includes new neuroscientific research that demonstrates the potential for change in schools and expands the approach to cover teacher/student interaction. In addition to learning techniques to engage and motivate, readers will discover how to: Develop relational trust within the school that heightens personal growth and supports student achievement Utilize the power of committed listening, intentional conversations, and nonjudgmental feedback Create positive changes in how people think and interactBeing a successful school leader has become an increasingly complex role that demands not only tremendous knowledge and skills, but also highly developed interpersonal skills. Written with an easy-to-use approach, this handbook provides simple yet powerful coaching strategies to help school community members work together toward positive school transformation.