Building Coaching Capacity Within Aspiring School Leaders

Abstract

Building the coaching capacity of aspiring leaders is a theme regularly seen in professional learning standards for education leaders. The ability to coach others and provide meaningful feedback is an important leadership skill due to its impact on shifting practice and positively affecting student learning. An urban district in Southern California has long included coaching practice as a professional standard in its preparation, promotional, and professional development programs for school leaders. The District's in-house preliminary administrative services credential program is a one-year, tuition-waived, job-embedded, school leader preparation program. The results show the District's candidates not only have a 100% pass rate, they are scoring at a higher level than the state average.