Student-Centered Coaching: The Moves

I was looking for a book that provides basic information about coaching teachers. This was helpful! I appreciated the examples, dialogue, and helpful tips. As someone (thinking about) getting started in a new role in education, this was a good place to start!

If you are a coach, teacher or administrator and you want to move your student forward this is a must read. There is nothing for coaches that explains how to support teachers and students like this does

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Most of the content in this book is useful, but I’m three chapters in and I’ve run into three significant drawbacks.1. My book is falling apart. Pages are coming out of the binding as I turn them.2. The book is advertised as a companion to “The Essential Guide for Student-Centered Coaching: What Every k-12 Coach and School Leader Needs to Know”, but it’s difficult coordinate the readings. The chapters don’t line up and there is a lack of guidance within both books to make them work well together. I searched online and didn’t find any helpful tips there either.3. The book gives negative (and at times false) descriptions of types of coaching that aren’t student-centred. There is lots of value in student-centred coaching, but other approaches are also important and valuable. I wish the authors had focused on when and how student-centered coaching is beneficial rather than trying to position it as always better than other forms of coaching. This ‘our approach is best’ stance goes against lots of their advice in their books, so I’m a bit surprised by it.

This book shows you how to coach successfully with the students in mind! It gives very simple and wise insight into instructional coaching. I will always refer to this book!