Start the Year Strong with Student-Centered Coaching
Designed to ensure a successful start to the school year, this guidebook provides strategies for coaches, principals, and district leaders to successfully launch a new year of Student-Centered Coaching. Organized into fifteen moves, this resource provides:
- Concrete ideas for how coaches can connect with new and returning teachers
- Strategies for supporting teachers to increase student engagement and build classroom community
- Steps for building strong principal and coach partnerships that will last throughout the year
- Tools and artifacts that can be used to message and market coaching
- Ideas for scheduling coaching that is flexible and meets teachers' needs
- Videos and other resources that dig deeper into each of the fifteen coaching moves that are included
Harris, Leanna S.: - "
Leanna Harris is the author of The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2020) and Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves (Corwin, 2016). She has worked as a teacher, coach, and consultant across grades K-12 and currently works with Diane Sweeney Consulting to help schools and districts implement student-centered coaching. Her work is based upon the belief that professional development for teachers is most effective when it is grounded in outcomes for student achievement - for every child, every day.
Leanna is a passionate skier and cyclist. She lives in Denver, Colorado with her husband and three kids.
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Steele, Julie: - Julie Steele has been in public education since 1998 as an elementary teacher, instruction specialist, and consultant. In 2019, she chose to pursue a full-time career in consulting to have a broader impact on students and teachers around the country. Her consulting projects include in-person and online support related to the implementation of Student-Centered Coaching. In addition, Julie has a passion for continuous learning which has led her to present at numerous educational conferences, provide professional learning for school districts around best practices and high-impact instruction, and author several blogs on equity.
Julie holds a Bachelor's Degree in Secondary Education from Missouri State University, Elementary Certification (1-6) from Avila University, and a Master's Degree in Teaching and Learning from Baker University.
Sweeney, Diane: -
Diane Sweeney has been an author and educational consultant since 1999. The author of Moves for Launching a New Year of Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2022), Student-Centered Coaching from a Distance (Corwin, 2021), The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2020), Leading Student-Centered Coaching (Corwin, 2018), and Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves (Corwin, 2016), Diane holds a longstanding interest in how adult learning translates to learning in the classroom. Diane holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Denver and a Master's in Bilingual and Multicultural Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder. After teaching and coaching in the Denver Public Schools, Diane served as a program officer at the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC) in Denver. Since then, she has become a respected voice in the field of coaching and professional development.
