Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Foreword by Dennis Sparks
Preface
Introduction
1. The Coach Leader Mindset: The Cognitive Shift
2. Intention: Being Purposeful
3. Leader as Coach: The Results Coaching Navigation System
4. Language: The Essential Connector
5. Communication Skills: The New Essentials
#1 - Committed Listening
#2 - Powerful Paraphrasing
#3 - Presuming Positive Intent and Powerful Questions
#4 - Reflective Feedback
6. The Leader’s GPS: Guided Pathways for Success
7. RESULTS Coaching Plan for Action: Essential for Unleashing
Promise and Possibility
Resources
Appendix A: RESULTS Coaching Navigation System - Visual
Appendix B: RESULTS Coaching – GPS - Visual
Appendix C: RESULTS Coaching – Model - Visual
Appendix D: Assessments
Appendix E: ICF Code of Ethics
Appendix F: ICF Core Competencies
Appendix G: Coaching School Results: Evaluation and Testimonies
Appendix H: Skill Essays and Coaching Scripts
Index
Kathryn (Harwell) Kee is a committed and passionate champion
for the power of COACHING and the impact the mindset and the skills
of coaching offer to educational organizations, in particular, and
to all places of work, in general. Having served in all
levels of education since 1970, Kathy’s 47 years have confirmed her
strongly held belief system of how critically important leadership
is. She believes a leader must be committed to the research
and knowledge we have today; to influence, motivate, inspire and
grow people to use their best thinking to produce their best
work. Our schools seem so hardwired to traditional
processes and behaviors that to realize real lasting change will
require the patience of Gandhi, the determination of Martin Luther
King, and an army of committed Coach Leaders who want a different
future and clear results for all children.
Kathy’s credentials range from teacher to assistant superintendent
in districts from Louisiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma and since,
1978, in Texas. She also served as adjunct mentor for
University of North Texas for new administrators coaching their new
career beginnings. Kathy’s experiences with leadership grew
from being a student leader in student council and government; from
teacher leadership to administrative leadership in gifted
education, parent education, remedial reading, and campus and
district leadership positions. A pattern a look back reveals
is the power and magic of a leader’s belief in one’s potential and
possibility. These RESULTS COACHING books voice her purpose and
passion and the legacy of leadership she desires to leave.
Kathy is a founding partner of Results Coaching Global (RCG), and
serves as a seminar instructor, mentor, and coach and directs the
Accredited Coach Training Program. She has authored numerous
articles and was a co-author of Results Coaching: The New Essential
for School Leaders. Other experiences and honors include: Past
President and founder of the Texas Learning Forward; Past Present
of Learning Forward; Recipient of Learning Forward’s Lifetime
Achievement Award.
Karen Anderson believes coaching is her most significant work
as an educator. She is passionate about working with leaders
who are open to advancing their performance to a higher
level. Leaders who “work on their work” in ways that
challenge the norm, create a space for possibility, and include
commitment to action motivate and inspire her as a coach.
Her dream is for every educator to have a coach; AND for every
educator to “be” a Coach Leader. She wants her grandchildren
to have a leader who looks for the best in all, values individual
differences, and holds the highest standards and expectations for
achieving one’s potential. She believes coaching has the
power to transform the place we call school.
Karen has been a public school educator for over 45 years. In
addition to coaching, her expertise has been facilitating groups
focused on working collaboratively to discover solutions and
improve processes and delivery systems. She is a national trainer
and has served as an adjunct faculty member at Texas A & M
University-Commerce. From 1996-2004, she served as the Executive
Director of the Texas Staff Development Council and was recognized
as the recipient of their Lifetime Achievement Award.
As a founding partner of Results Coaching Global (RCG), Karen
serves as a seminar instructor, mentor, and coach. She has
authored numerous articles including “Coaching for High
Performance” and “Leadership Coaching for Principals.” As one of
the co-authors of Results Coaching: The New Essential for School
Leaders she was recognized as the recipient of Learning Forward’s
Lifetime Achievement Award.
Vicky Dearing has been involved with coaching for over twenty
years. She believes that coaching has been one of the most
important and influential components of her professional career and
personal life and she wants to support others in experiencing the
power of coaching. Vicky’s expertise and experiences include
thirty years of work within public education, serving as an
elementary teacher, a central office administrator leading and
supporting Gifted programs, Title I programs, and At-Risk programs
and as a principal who received state and national recognition for
leading school to recognized and exemplary results. After retiring
from public education, Vicky spent over eight years working in the
business and higher education sector, traveling across the United
States on behalf of supporting education initiatives and leadership
development before joining her partners in the Results Coaching
initiative. Her leadership roles in the business field include
Consultant, Director, Vice President and Senior Vice President.
Vicky understands the demands and the rewards of leadership,
regardless of the level or the title, and the possibilities for
reaching increased results and personal satisfaction when people
work within respected and trusting environments, toward a shared
purpose and vision, with clearly identified and articulated
expectations, standards, and goals and have honest and open
conversations, using intentional communication skills designed to
increase clarity, expand thinking and motivate people to move
toward positive change. In addition to serving as a Business
Partner and Lead Faculty Instructor with the Results Coaching
Global Coaching School, Vicky coaches school leaders, business
leaders and pastors from across the nation. She believes in
the importance of ongoing development and the intentional practice
of her own coaching skills and considers herself to be a life-long
student of coaching.
Edna has worked as an educator in several large suburban
school districts for over thirty years. She has experience as a
teacher, supervisor, reading coordinator, principal and staff
developer. She has developed curriculum and training materials for
several organizations and school districts. She has presented
training sessions for numerous professional organizations and
universities primarily in the area of implementing effective staff
development programs. She is a founding member of Coaching for
Results and enjoys coaching school leaders.
In 1992-1993, Edna served as president of the Texas Staff
Development Council. She was named Texas Staff Developer of the
Year in 1997. She has served on a variety of national and state
level task forces designed to promote effective staff development
practices including teacher certification and legislative policies.
In addition to the growth opportunities she has had as a consultant
and school district administrator, she serves in a variety of
leadership roles in her church. She continually strives to enhance
her skills in the areas of group facilitation,
understanding/sharing the link between teacher training and student
success, coaching, and leadership development. Edna is a founding
member of Coaching for Results and certified through International
Coaches Federation as an Associate Certified Coach.
Frances Shuster was an early adopter of the professional
coaching model and is part of the first wave of students and active
members of the International Coach Federation (ICF), the global
leader in professional coaching. She has served in various
roles and capacities in support of and contribution to professional
coaching, both as a volunteer and as a leader, faculty instructor,
mentor, coach and partner in Results Coaching Global. Frances
has also been active in the University of Texas at Dallas coach
training program since 2008, serving as an instructor, supervising
mentor and assessor. She continues to be in conversation with
the “movers and shakers” of the global coaching community, who are
working toward maintaining the integrity and vitality of
professional coaching now and into the future.
Frances is surrounded by a family of educators in the generations
before and following her. Her public school career included
teaching in elementary schools, coordinating and supervising gifted
and talented and reading programs, and directing professional
development and learning. She served in high needs schools
throughout the country as a literacy consultant, teaching literacy
strategies, observing and coaching teachers.
As a curious observer of human nature, Frances notices the patterns
of behavior frequently associated in coaching interactions.
The person who is being coached is frequently transformed in her
beliefs, mindset, and actions because of the trust and belief of
her coach. Just as often, the coach is transformed in her
mindset and actions because of the trust and vulnerability that
grows in the coaching relationship. Her life purpose—“To seek
and share love, peace, wisdom and joy” is actualized in her work as
a teacher and coach and in her circle of Very Important Family and
Friends. (VIFF)
"RESULTS coaching is a humanistic approach to developing needed
teacher proficiencies. It draws from a standards-based body of
research to teach a mandated curriculum with high-yield strategies
to produce results. RESULTS coaching incorporates the best from
many models of coaching, including cognitive coaching, and provides
a valuable resource for leaders to clearly articulate the
expectations of the work of schools.”
*Robert J. Garmston, Professor Emeritus, California State
University, Sacramento*
"Leaders who are truly committed to substantive and lasting change
will find that RESULTS coaching is one of the definitive actions
that they can take. As a beneficiary of RESULTS coaching, I know it
works. The authors make many skills accessible to school leaders,
who can begin tomorrow changing the way they interact with staff
and colleagues and accelerating the level at which they achieve
their goals for staff and students."
*Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director*
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