Coaching in Education Podcast Series

Instructional Coaching – What does it mean to do it right?

Join me in conversation with none other than Dr Jim Knight, senior partner at the Instructional Coaching Group and Growth Coaching International’s executive director Chris Munro as they both provide some clarity around the following aspects of Instructional Coaching:

• The Partnership Principles
• The place of the expertise and knowledge of the instructional coach
• Teacher practice goals vs student focused goals
• The Impact Cycle

For further information on Instructional Coaching check out the websites of both organisations: www.growthcoaching.com.au www.instructionalcoaching.com

Link to the video mentioned in the episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahzi4DRkphQ&t=2390s

In this episode I’m delighted to be in conversation with Sam Crome, Deputy Head of St Peter’s Catholic School in Surrey, England and more recently the Director of Education for a Multi Academy Trust. In this episode Sam shares his interesting journey into education, highlights how his research on staff wellbeing introduced him to the world of coaching and gives us a little insight into how he sees the role of coaching play out in the complexity of the teams within our schools. For further insights into Sam’s work check out his excellent blog at pocketwisedom.blog and keep an eye out for his first book ‘The Power of Teams’ to be released in the summer of 2023.

Do students have the emotional intelligence to coach their peers? And what would some of the other key considerations be for schools interested in implementing a student peer coaching program. In this short interview, we talk to Ben Calleja, Co-Director at GCI WA, SA & NT, who explains what others have found in this exciting new area of coaching.

In this episode I’m joined by Mark Keenan, Principal of Maraetai Beach School in Auckland, New Zealand. Join me in conversation with Mark as he shares the incredible coaching journey he and his staff and students have been on in the last three years. Mark emphasises the importance of a strategic approach to developing a coaching culture in a school and the need to regularly revisit the question of ‘Why?’. Mark gives us an insight into his theory behind starting small, building trust and relationships and over time generating a curiosity in his staff to guarantee ‘buy in’. This is a perfect example of what happens when theory and good intentions meet reality.

Welcome to part 2 of the coaching journey at St Andrew’s Cathedral school in Sydney, Australia. In part one I was in conversation with senior learning coach Elle Smith who shared with us the fascinating story of getting a coaching culture off the ground starting with one coach, way back in 2015. In part two I’m pleased to have Elle join me again and this time she has brought along one of her colleagues - Anthony Sharman. Anthony is a learning coach at St Andrew’s and through this episode he and Elle are going to give us some insight into the ups and downs of sustaining and growing a team of coaches in a school setting.