Are you an experienced coach ready to lead?
Have you been coaching for more than 3 years and you’re ready to leverage your leadership in your role as a coach, and beyond?
Even experienced coaches often don’t see themselves as leaders, but you lead by:
- Advocating for the needs of teachers
- Advocating for the work of coaches
- Supporting the implementation of school-wide goals at the teacher and classroom level
- Providing a division or school-wide view of teaching and learning to school leaders
Hi! I'm Kim.
After being an instructional coach in international schools for over 15 years, I’ve spent the last decade supporting coaches and school leaders in developing a thriving coaching culture in The Coach Certificate and Mentorship Program, and through my private consulting services.
What I’ve learned is that even with a strong coaching program, and leadership support, coaches need to embrace their leadership capacity to truly make an impact in their school community.
Coaching is a special role, with a unique viewpoint. You work directly with teachers and leaders. You are an expert in pedagogy and adragogy. You have the potential to influence school-wide change through the relationships you build. You know exactly how to maximize the capacity of every staff member on campus.
But, you will only truly leverage this potential once you recognize and embrace your informal leadership as a coach. The exact leadership skills you’re building right now will support you in your coaching role and beyond!
Here's Why You Need to Take Coaches as Leaders!
When you first start out coaching, you are often able to make a big impact by working with individual teachers...
But over time, you need to embrace your leadership to:
- Scale your impact from 1:1 to groups and teams
- Become embedded in the curriculum development structures in your school
- Connect teachers to each other to create a coaching culture
These aspects of coaching as leadership are easy to miss. You can try to stay at the 1:1 individual coaching level, but you will soon run out of time and capacity to work with every teacher individually.
To truly grow a coaching culture you need to leverage your leadership!
