Leadership coaching and mentoring
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Leading and MentoringYamaiyamarna PaityaTeachers are Deadly!
2012
Associate Professor Robert Somerville AMPrincipals Australia Institute
AGENDAReview three pieces of research that identified; 1. the characteristics needed for good school leadership, 2. the necessary preconditions of leadership necessary for change and 3. what leadership changes made a difference in improving Aboriginal outcomes.
So what did this research find?
Professor Helen Wildy:
Research into the domains of leadership necessary to be an effective Principal.
Department of Education, Western Australia 2010
Effective School Leadership?
1. Teaching and Learning (Curriculum)2. People Management (Staff)3. Strategic Leadership (Direction, culture)4. Administrative (Finances)5. Community (Parents)
Principals
Student
Teachers Care Givers
Punching Above Their Weight
Vic Zbar etal: Research for Victorian Education Department (Pub 2009).‘Schools that achieve extraordinary success: Punching Above their Weight’
Preconditions1. Strong Leadership (stable, skilled at
resource allocation and could draw out staff expertise).
2. High expectations (of students and high efficacy between teachers and students).
3. Orderly Environment (consistent messages not petty rules but consequences).
4. Focus on Core Priorities (literacy, numeracy, attendance).
Principals
Student
Teachers
Dare to Lead
Collegiate Snapshot
Snapshot?• Over 300 schools have undertaken a
‘Snapshot’ in Australia ie a collegiate review of the health of the school.
• 22 Schools located across Australia were revisited 3-4 years to identify what differences had been made and what was the major catalyst to change.
What can we learn from the Zbar, Wildy and the Dare to Lead
Snapshots work?
1.People Management:• Developed middle level leaders through
coaching and mentoring.• Gaps in staff expertise were identified and
filled.• Encouraged disengaged staff to move on. • Developed leadership competence across all
Wildy domains using mentoring and coaching (through the profession) as the key change agents.
What did the three pieces of research find??
2. Teaching and Learning:• Attention to struggling students• Apply explicit teaching (through a
coaching, mentoring model)• Use system supplied data to enhance
teaching• Real not token professional learning
3. Strategic Leadership• System initiatives tailored to school
priorities.• School displays pride in its:
• Buildings and grounds, • Students work • Cultural diversity and• Celebrated and recognised staff and
students often.
4. Community• Parents were valued partners in the learning process.
• They were informed, involved and a part of the schools very being.
• Parental/community involvement up-skilling of school leaders was effectively accomplished through a mentoring/coaching model.
Note that Snapshot found…
What were the common messages?
• Mentoring and coaching are powerful tools for self development.
• Leaders develop leaders.• School leadership is complex.• Only care givers, teachers and school
leaders have a direct and causal impact upon student outcomes.
Yes.. You do make a difference
and it is to lives such as these
Zbar
Preconditions1.Strong Leadership
(Administrative-Human)2.High expectations 3.Orderly Environment 4.Focus on Core Priorities