Observation & Coaching

Adopting a coaching mindset as a school or district leader helps your teachers, staff, and aspiring leaders see—and reach—their potential. Strengthen your mindset with these strategies.

Students excel when they feel seen. The same is true for school leaders. Here’s how one New Leaders alum experienced the impact of our leadership coaching in her school.

Job-embedded leadership coaching can deepen your impact this school year. Discover how it works and why leaders and educators at every level find it beneficial to achieving ambitious goals.

Assistant principals play a vital role in our schools. Here’s how one New Leaders alum is developing the vice principals in her district to be coaches and instructional leaders.

“Everyone needs support with problem solving,” reflects Gina Sudaria, superintendent of Ravenswood City School District. Discover how her partnership with a New Leaders executive coach is helping her make transformational change.

Job-embedded coaching for school and district leaders can be a game-changer. Here are ten reasons why leadership coaching might be a good fit for you.

Research shows that strong school leadership accounts for about 25 percent of a school’s impact on student achievement. You can elevate that impact through instructional leadership—particularly through ELA-focused strategies.

Strong instructional leaders can add up to three additional months of learning for students every year. Build teacher capacity and increase student achievement with these math-focused actions.

Strong instructional leaders can reverse NAEP trends and improve student outcomes. Here are six key leadership actions that can accelerate student learning in your school and district.

As district leaders work to address principal shortages, one strategy tops the list of retention efforts: providing high-quality K-12 professional development. Here’s how to support the learning opportunities principals are seeking.

Giving effective teacher feedback is an essential part of building their confidence, improving their craft, and improving student outcomes. Strengthen your delivery with these five strategies.

Hear from two district superintendents on the proven strategies they used to cultivate resilience in their school leaders and the communities they served—both during the pandemic and now.

Every school year offers opportunities to do things in a new way. Here are four blogs to jumpstart your self-reflection and fuel your leadership journey moving forward.

In this era of the Great Resignation, when 40% of principals anticipate leaving their roles, district leaders need to develop resilient leaders who can meet the challenges ahead. Here’s how.

Leadership requires creating the conditions for achieving positive change at scale. Structuring your instructional leadership team for success will allow it to drive excellence and equity across your school.

Virtual coaching allows more school leaders access to coaching when it’s needed most. Coaching in a virtual environment is resource-effective, provides trusted thought partnership, and focuses on your leadership goals.

Hear from four New Leaders leadership coaches about how one-on-one virtual coaching is lifting up and supporting principals and assistant principals in this moment and the next.

Good coaching leaves a legacy. Here’s how an instructional coach forever changed the way one school leader taught his high school students and later led his school.

Learn why a leadership coach is an important part of your support system, and how a coach can help you cut through the clutter, get clear on goals, and take action.

A New Leaders alum reflects on the power of small changes to enhance her leadership and team meetings. After a year of disrupted learning, these tips can deliver big wins.

Two former principals and current leadership coaches (as well as New Leaders alumni) share three essential supports that made a transformative difference in their leadership.