The Art of Coaching WORKBOOK

Step-by-Step Coaching Tips, Techniques, and Activities to Renew Your Confidence and Build on Your Strengths

Elena Aguilar's bestselling guide The Art of Coaching has helped thousands of coaches and teacher leaders rise to their full potential and inspire others to work for student success and educational equity. The Art of Coaching Workbook is a just-in-time companion manual--which also works wonderfully as a standalone resource guide--providing 400 pages of practical activities and walkthroughs to help you implement better coaching in any environment.

This workbook covers the central elements of educational coaching, with a focus on developing equity and understanding the role of beliefs and biases. These activities will take you on a journey of self-discovery and empower you to:

• Understand your own coaching style, develop your personal coaching mantras, and celebrate your strengths
• Build trust in any educational setting by developing a deep knowledge of the school culture and teachers' strengths
• Become a better listener, deal with difficult emotions or resistant teachers, and know what to do when the going gets rough
• Provide effective coaching in any setting, including video-based coaching
• Refine your coaching skills and facilitate professional development for coaches

"This companion to The Art of Coaching is the book coaches have been clamoring for!"
--Raiza Cruz Lisboa, Trainer of coaches, Washington, D.C.

A practical guide for getting the most out of The Art of Coaching

The Art of Coaching Workbook is the resource you've been waiting for to accompany Elena Aguilar's The Art of Coaching. Ideal for new and novice coaches, as well as for those who have years of coaching under their belt, this workbook will help you improve your coaching skills.

This vital companion text includes:

• Dozens of activities to help you internalize the concepts described in The Art of Coaching
• Exercises to guide you in identifying your own coaching beliefs, style, and practices
• Short and lengthy transcripts of coaching conversations
• Additional examples of key concepts in The Art of Coaching, including the Ladder of Inference and the Coaching Lenses
• New ideas and information that build on those in The Art of Coaching

This workbook is also for those who lead and manage coaches. An entire chapter is dedicated to structures, routines, and practices that are easy to implement in professional development sessions. In addition, a new Transformational Coaching Rubric and other tools for assessment and reflection are included. If you aspire to provide meaningful learning for coaches, and you already have The Art of Coaching, this workbook is all you'll need.