Coaching with Purpose: Learning encounters for educational change

by Rachel Lofthouse, Jasen Booton, Trista Hollweck

Coaching with a guide for every educator is the book we wish we had available to us when our own professional and academic interests in coaching emerged.  It provides insights into how and why coaching can impact positively on teachers and leaders in any educational setting and how it creates environments in which students and pupils can thrive. It helps the reader navigate multiple coaching models, integrates case studies of UK and international examples of coaching in education, provides practical tools and advice and enables every educator to make informed decisions about developing and deploying coaching.

400 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 11, 2025

About the author

Rachel Lofthouse lives in a large town on the south coast of Cornwall, the most southwestern peninsula of Great Britain. As a child, Rachel had regularly ridden at a local riding school where she spent many weekends and school holidays taking part in gymkhanas, cared for the ponies and enjoyed canters at the local beach.

Rachel left Cornwall in her early twenties and spent two years studying equestrian and business studies at the Berkshire College of Agriculture. But an equestrian career was not meant to be and the subsequent eight years were spent away from horses when she worked and lived in and around London.

In 2006, Rachel returned to Cornwall and was soon back attending weekly horse riding lessons at Lanjeth Riding School, a small equestrian centre close to her home.

Five years later and as fortieth birthday presents to herself, Rachel booked two horse riding holidays. It was the perfect combination: horseback riding and travel. At the beginning of autumn 2012, Rachel travelled to Iceland and then to Cairo in Egypt. Both horse riding holidays were fun, memorable and so interesting that when she returned home, she wrote about them. The Horse Riding Tourist was born.