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Job listings and more at
www.acsa.org/careers
Participants in ACSA’s 2019 Classified Educational Leaders Institute from Region 7 pose for a photo. The CEL
Institute was held Feb. 27-March 1 in Monterey.
Region News
Region 13 announces AOY winners
Region 13 has announced its region-
al Administrator of the Year winners as
follows:
Superintendent: Jason Peplinski
Secondary Principal: Roger Adams
Middle Grades Principal: Heather
Hendrix
Elementary Principal: Barbara LaCorte
Central Office Admin: Anna Thomas
Secondary Co-Admin: David Ramirez
Elementary Co-Admin: Evelyn Jimenez
Classified Leader: Darlene Avalos
Personnel/HR Admin: Paul Marietti
Adult Education Admin: Kathy Greaves
Career Tech Education Admin: Zenda
Abbott
Special Education Admin: Amelia
Sugden
Superintendent/Principal: Amy Alzina
Student Services Admin: Irma Villan-
ueva
Curriculum & Instruction: Steve Scifres
Continuation/Ed Options: Christina
Mahone
Professor of Education: Andrea Somo-
za-Norton
Retired Admin: Erik Frost
Technology Admin: Jason Messinger
Valuing Diversity: Paul Bommersbach
Ferd J. Kiesel: Bert Heter
Leadership Matters Awards were also
given to:
SVMMA: Aldo Calcagno
COLVOP: Dan Stepenosky
South Ventura: Roger Rice
South Santa Barbara: Bridget Braney
North Santa Barbara: Leslie Wagon-
seller
North Ventura: Rene Rickard
San Luis Obispo: TBD
North State will hold PD conference
May 3-5
ACSA’s North State Spring Professional
Development Conference, co-sponsored by
ACSA Regions 1, 2, 3 and 4, will be May
3-5 at the Peppermill in Reno, Nev. Speak-
ers include Travis Allen, iSchool Initiative,
Jessica Gomez and Pam Hernandez, CUE,
and Beth Houf, co-author of “Lead Like a
Pirate.” Visit http://bit.ly/nssc-conference
to register.
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What is Leadership coaching?
Principals’ Summer
Institute
June 23-29, 2019
Institute for New &
Aspiring Principals
June 24-28, 2019
Quality coaching is foundational in helping candidates translate theory into practice.
Leadership coaching engages candidates in a continuous cycle of improvement
while providing support with challenges in the field of education. The California
Commission on Teacher Credentialing defines leadership coaching as follows:
“Coaching is a formal, professional relationship between a candidate and a coach
directed toward the attainment of professional and organizational goals focusing,
consistently, upon leadership that positively impacts learning and teaching prac-
tice. A coach is trained and skilled in applying a variety of coaching strategies and
resources to the context and needs of the candidate. Coaching is a complex process
which can lead to changes in practice, in rethinking/re-strategizing leadership,
and transforming the leader’s dispositions, behaviors, and communication to build
leadership capacity, instructional improvement, and growth in student learning.
Administrative coaches focus on the candidates’ understanding and application of
CPSEL-based leadership outcomes.” (CCTC, 2014, p. 34)
Leadership Coaching vs. Mentoring
Leadership coaching differs from mentoring. Mentoring is an informal relationship
where a mentor provides nonjudgmental listening when asked on topics that are
selected by the administrator being mentored. In contrast, leadership coaching
focuses on professional development and capacity building by guiding the candidate
through activities and conversations that invite rethinking and application of leader-
ship strategies and dispositions for the most successful impact.
ACSA’s Coaching Model and Evocative Coaching
ACSA’s Leadership Coaching model emphasizes the application of adult learning
theory, the importance of building and maintaining trust and rapport, the value of
being a good listener, and the need to ask questions and provide feedback to promote
reflection and growth in new educational leaders.
ACSA’s Leadership Coaching is designed to focus on the candidate’s leadership
development using a job-embedded coaching approach relevant to the candidate’s
job context rather than a classroom theoretical model.
The coaching methodology is based on the work of Megan and Bob Tschannen-
Moran, written in the book “Evoking Greatness: Coaching to Bring Out the Best in
Educational Leaders” (2016). This research-based model focuses on the coaching
skills and moves to LEAD (Listen, Empathize, Appreciate, and Design) and supports
the candidate’s growth as a leader and attainment of leadership outcomes. Through
Appreciative Inquiry questioning, the coach helps candidates recognize strengths and
possibilities that exist to envision an ideal future to develop goals and action steps.
This approach builds the candidate’s capacity as a leader by modeling inquiry for
problem solving that extends beyond their current administrative position.
“Through Evocative Coaching, we hope to shift the energy in the conversations in
schools by focusing our attention on what we call the 5 Cs. First, we hope to have
conversations that raise consciousness. We want to foster connections, enhance
competence, honor contribution, as well as to promote a playful spirit of creativity,”
writes Megan Tschannen-Moran.
Becoming an ACSA Leadership Coach
Leadership coaching training is comprised of foundational, initial and ongoing profes-
sional learning opportunities for a community of leadership coaches.
The ACSA Leadership Coaching Training is required for all coaches hired for ACSA
local programs after 2016. This current foundational research-based coach training
is focused on Evocative Coaching skills and the moves of LEAD. ACSA Leadership
Coach training emphasizes the development of knowledge and skills of coaching,
coaching instruments utilized in the program, goal setting and reflective practices.
With induction coaching now a requirement for earning the Clear Administrative
Services Credential, leadership coaches are needed now. Not only critical to
the process of developing new leaders, training as a coach provides valuable
skills and experience for administrators both in their current role and for future
career advancement.
For further information on ACSA Leadership Coaching, contact Joan Ruzic
in ACSA’s Educational Services Department at 916-329-3843, 800-608-2272 or
via e-mail at [email protected].