The Promise and Practice of Coaching
Leading within a professional learning community, Hampton City Schools’ administrators believe that “teachers are capable adults who, with the right mix of understanding and engagement, are well equipped to improve the quality and outcomes of their instruction. At its best, coaching enables people not only to make incremental improvements in technique but also, on occasion, to make quantum leaps forward in their way of working and being in the world. Coaching is a conversational process that brings out the greatness in people. It raises the bar of the possible, so that people reinvent themselves and their organizations in the service of transformational learning.” ( Evocative Coaching,p.5; Tschannen-Moran, Bob & Megan)
hCS and coaching- a brief history
Coaching, like teaching, is both an art and a skill! Over the past 4 years, the Hampton City Schools' Instructional Coaches have received over 75 contact hours of professional development from the staff of Coaching for Results Global. Presenters Kathy Kee, PCC & Vicky Dearing, PCC, have years of classroom teaching and administrative experience and have shared powerful stories and examples of how coaching changes lives with the Instructional Coaches of HCS!
In the summer of 2014, Hampton City Schools, the Center for School Transformation staff, under the leadership of its founder Bob Tchannen-Moran, his wife Megan Tchannen-Moran, Professor at the College of William and Mary and former teacher and administrator Kathleen Pietrasanta began working with K-12 and central office administrators on evocative coaching. Evocative Coaching takes a teacher-centered, no-fault, strengths-based approach to performance improvement. Training will continue monthly throughout the 2014-15 school year with each participant receiving 60 hours of instruction and coaching practice.
The COACHING SKILLS section of Coachinghcs highlights skills and protocols mainly from Evocative Coaching training but will also include some resources from Coaching for Results Global in order to assist principals' understanding of the coaching framework followed by the instructional coaches within their building.
In the summer of 2014, Hampton City Schools, the Center for School Transformation staff, under the leadership of its founder Bob Tchannen-Moran, his wife Megan Tchannen-Moran, Professor at the College of William and Mary and former teacher and administrator Kathleen Pietrasanta began working with K-12 and central office administrators on evocative coaching. Evocative Coaching takes a teacher-centered, no-fault, strengths-based approach to performance improvement. Training will continue monthly throughout the 2014-15 school year with each participant receiving 60 hours of instruction and coaching practice.
The COACHING SKILLS section of Coachinghcs highlights skills and protocols mainly from Evocative Coaching training but will also include some resources from Coaching for Results Global in order to assist principals' understanding of the coaching framework followed by the instructional coaches within their building.