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States of Being: Leadership Coaching for Equitable Schools
The What, the Why, and the How of Leadership Coaching for Equitable Schools
States of Being conveys the urgent need for compassionate and equitable leadership in our schools. Belans has distilled decades of coaching experience into a methodology that all leaders and mentors will be able to apply to their own coaching practices. She is clear at every moment that leadership must be grounded in equity and social justice, and she never wavers from her insistence that students' well-being should be the center of educational decision-making. The 11 States of Being presented in this book are practical, insightful, and almost shocking in their immediate effectiveness. Belans shows once and for all that reductive or deficits-based leadership is damaging, unproductive, and most of all unnecessary. Here, she presents the assets- and equity-based tools to create true transformational change.
States of Being conveys the urgent need for compassionate and equitable leadership in our schools. Belans has distilled decades of coaching experience into a methodology that all leaders and mentors will be able to apply to their own coaching practices. She is clear at every moment that leadership must be grounded in equity and social justice, and she never wavers from her insistence that students' well-being should be the center of educational decision-making. The 11 States of Being presented in this book are practical, insightful, and almost shocking in their immediate effectiveness. Belans shows once and for all that reductive or deficits-based leadership is damaging, unproductive, and most of all unnecessary. Here, she presents the assets- and equity-based tools to create true transformational change.
183 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 14, 2020
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August 1, 2020
The States of Being framework has been life altering in my own personal and professional life and in the way that I think about coaching others. Almost nothing matters more right now than creating more equitable schools. Dr. Belans maneuvers skillfully between details of her coaching model (including questions to ask that can be immediately applied) and storytelling real life examples to illuminate each particular detail; so, in addition to imparting practical information, the book is also very engaging and reads, to me, like a delicious novel.
What's clearer to me now, to answer a question often asked by Belans in the book and in her coaching, is that coaching to assets and strengths can drive change and develop others faster and more impactfully (and less painfully) than coaching to deficits, that equity should be a focus of all that we do as coaches and leaders, and that how we show up to a coaching session is just as important as what we do and say. To quote from the book, "What's clearer to me is that we are called on to create schools where kindness and academic rigor can and must coexist. Where we have to care as much, if not more, about our students' and teachers' aspirations as we do about test scores."
What's clearer to me now, to answer a question often asked by Belans in the book and in her coaching, is that coaching to assets and strengths can drive change and develop others faster and more impactfully (and less painfully) than coaching to deficits, that equity should be a focus of all that we do as coaches and leaders, and that how we show up to a coaching session is just as important as what we do and say. To quote from the book, "What's clearer to me is that we are called on to create schools where kindness and academic rigor can and must coexist. Where we have to care as much, if not more, about our students' and teachers' aspirations as we do about test scores."
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