About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of maintaining effective coaching practices in educational leadership.

Teachers spend years learning to coach people. Ask questions, not give answers. Build trust before expecting vulnerability. Hold space. Stay quiet when staying quiet is the hardest thing. Then they get promoted. And most of it disappears. Chris Scorer — school leader, data specialist, and co-host of Education Leaders Live — said it plainly this month: "You'd never walk into a classroom and tell kids to do something just because you're telling them to. Yet leadership very often does exactly that." If you've ever watched that gap open up — between what you know good leadership looks like and what actually happens under pressure — you're in the right place. You're not the only one who's seen it. This is Education Leaders Live, the monthly companion show to the Education Leaders podcast. Each month, host Shane Leaning and Chris Scorer sit down with the listeners who show up live to unpack the best conversations from the feed. This month they hit a milestone — Episode 150 — and three conversations that kept pulling at the same uncomfortable question. Why coaching programmes fail If you've ever launched a coaching initiative in a school and watched it quietly dissolve, Gene Tevonetti's…

People in this episode

Host: Shane Leaning

Guest: Chris Scorer

Topics covered

• coaching
• leadership
• education
• trust
• vulnerability
• confidentiality

Keywords

• coaching programmes
• leadership
• education
• trust
• vulnerability
• Gene Tevonetti

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