Get Some Guts, Coach!, Paperback

The insider's guide to turning your run-of-the-mill coaching job into a wildly powerful coaching practice that boosts teacher skill and student scoresHere you have it...againYou learned in Jill's first book, Get a Backbone, Principal , how to get rid of fancy educational jargon and replace it with simple, habitual, straightforward conversations that lead a school from less than stellar scores to off the charts student performance. Well, she's done it againBUT this time she's talking to you, COACHESJill wrote this book to once-and-for-all answer questions like these: How do I coach without being evaluative? What do I do with a weak administrator that won't hold teachers accountable? How do I build trust? What if all I do is put out fires and never get to the actual coaching? What does a successful coaching practice really look like? How do I debrief a teacher and have him actually implement my advice? This book is designed to support, nag, push and cajole instructional coaches into taking six very important steps: Step 1: Get Focused. Step 2: Get Into a Flow. Step 3: Get to the Dance of the Debrief. Step 4: Get to the Heart of Teaching and Learning. Step 5: Get Some Thick Skin. Step 6: Get a Plan. Advanced praise for Get Some Guts, Coach``I knew what I needed to do, but just needed someone to tell me how to do itThanks for all of your wonderful insight `` ``I love this. Thank you for addressing coaching head-on and providing me with practical and doable solutions.`` ``Practical, clear and concise information for coaching. This is an area that can be difficult, but you make the difficult seem possible.