Books on Coaching
We recommend you start your study of coaching with these books:
Aguilar, E. (2013). The art of coaching: Effective strategies for school transformation. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
Excellent insight and suggestions from a practicing, full-time instructional and leadership coach. Draws from the professional literature in executive coaching in business and applies it to educational setting. Inspiring, helpful ideas and scenarios. Enjoyable, easy read.
Costa, A. & Garmston, R. (2015, 3rd Edition). Cognitive Coaching: Developing Self-Directed Leaders and Learners. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Costa and Garmston’s cognitive coaching model is a very important and early contribution to the field. Their model originated from the need to coach pre-service teachers and has expanded to a very popular professional development approach for practicing educators. Material includes “coaching maps” and research on neuroscience to guide interpersonal communication exchange. This communication information is helpful and unique to this resource. The text is accessible and very useful, but it is more academic in tone and pace than the others. A recommended read for the serious student of coaching.
Foltos, L. (2013). Peer Coaching: Unlocking the Power of Collaboration. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
The Peer Coaching model is focused on school settings and acknowledges that coaches sometimes are teachers coaching other teachers. Some other sources seem to lean toward full time coaches. We would compare the content of this book with Knight’s Instructional Coaching book as a good introduction to coaching, but it also has some material applicable to establishing coaching programs.
Knight, J. (2007). Instructional coaching: A partnership approach to improving instruction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
Knight is a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. This Instructional Coaching model emerged from research and extensive experience in school coaching. The book is very practical and easy to read. We usually recommend this book as a starting point on how to coach. We would compare this book to Foltos' Peer Coaching as a good introduction to coaching.
Aguilar, E. (2013). The art of coaching: Effective strategies for school transformation. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
Excellent insight and suggestions from a practicing, full-time instructional and leadership coach. Draws from the professional literature in executive coaching in business and applies it to educational setting. Inspiring, helpful ideas and scenarios. Enjoyable, easy read.
Costa, A. & Garmston, R. (2015, 3rd Edition). Cognitive Coaching: Developing Self-Directed Leaders and Learners. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Costa and Garmston’s cognitive coaching model is a very important and early contribution to the field. Their model originated from the need to coach pre-service teachers and has expanded to a very popular professional development approach for practicing educators. Material includes “coaching maps” and research on neuroscience to guide interpersonal communication exchange. This communication information is helpful and unique to this resource. The text is accessible and very useful, but it is more academic in tone and pace than the others. A recommended read for the serious student of coaching.
Foltos, L. (2013). Peer Coaching: Unlocking the Power of Collaboration. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
The Peer Coaching model is focused on school settings and acknowledges that coaches sometimes are teachers coaching other teachers. Some other sources seem to lean toward full time coaches. We would compare the content of this book with Knight’s Instructional Coaching book as a good introduction to coaching, but it also has some material applicable to establishing coaching programs.
Knight, J. (2007). Instructional coaching: A partnership approach to improving instruction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
Knight is a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. This Instructional Coaching model emerged from research and extensive experience in school coaching. The book is very practical and easy to read. We usually recommend this book as a starting point on how to coach. We would compare this book to Foltos' Peer Coaching as a good introduction to coaching.