Building Teachers' Capacity for Success: A Collaborative Approach for Coaches and School Leaders

About this book

Educators know that teachers are a school s most essential strength. In Building Teachers Capacity for Success authors Pete Hall (winner of the 2004 ASCD Outstanding Young Educator Award) and Alisa Simeral offer a straightforward plan to help site-based administrators and instructional coaches collaborate to bring out the best in every teacher build a stronger and more cohesive staff and achieve greater academic success. Their model of Strength-Based School Improvement is an alternative to a negative deficit-approach focused on fixing what s wrong. Instead they show school leaders how to achieve their goals by working together to maximize what s right. Filled with clear proven strategies and organized around two easy-to-use tools the innovative Continuum of Self-Reflection and a feedback-focused walk-through model this book offers a differentiated approach to coaching and supervision centered on identifying and nurturing teachers individual strengths and helping them reach new levels of professional success and satisfaction. Here you ll find front-line advice from the authors one a principal and the other an instructional coach on just what to look for do and say in order to start seeing positive results right now.