Larry Hausner - The Principal Coaching Model: How to Plan, Design, and Implement a Successful Program

The Principal Coaching Model

ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD

Lanham Boulder New York London

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hausner, Larry, 1967- author.

Title: The principal coaching model : how to plan, design, and implement a successful program / Larry Hausner.

Description: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018022711 (print) | LCCN 2018032257 (ebook) | ISBN 9781475845556 (electronic) | ISBN 9781475845501 | ISBN 9781475845501 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781475845518 (paper : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: School principalsIn-service trainingUnited States. | Mentoring in educationUnited States.

Classification: LCC LB1738.5 (ebook) | LCC LB1738.5 .H38 2018 (print) | DDC 371.2/012dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018022711

TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.

Printed in the United States of America

This book is a dedicated to my children, Riley and Jacob.
Everything I do, I do for them.

They are my world.

As Dr. Hausner suggests, does principal coaching make a positive impact on student performance, improve school climate, and reduce principal turnover? Without question. As a former successful superintendent in numerous districts, I personally saw the effect providing principals with coaching has on the organization as whole. Todays principals are in high demand, being asked to lead bigger and better than before. School communities are ever changing and becoming more challenging to manage and the one-on-one, confidential coaching model of Dr. Hausners is the answer to meet these demands.

In The Principal Coaching Model, Dr. Hausner takes the reader on a journey that provides the rationale, research, the input of principals, and worthy case study examples for districts to move forward with a coaching model or improve the one already in place. There may be other sources suggesting the value of coaching, but this book goes above and beyond with its depth and the culmination of Dr. Hausners work with his Research-Based Implementation Model for principal coaching.

Districts often allocate resources providing instructional coaching to its support teachers. In addition, of late, there has been an increase in superintendents receiving coaching support by outside professionals as well. While these are sound, and often research based, practices, what is missing according to Dr. Hausner is principal coaching. I completely agree. The principalship has become an incredibly demanding position with increasing stressors from both inside and outside the school community. For principals to reach their potential, and stay in the job, coaching principals is the answer and for districts to support their principals with this sound practice is key. The Principal Coaching Model is the vehicle to make it happen.

In addition, his Research-Based Implementation Model of coaching not only provides districts with non-negotiables and optional practices, but it is also a proven winner and one that will deliver successful results to your district. Later in this book, those impressive results will be shared. As a former results-driven superintendent, I appreciate knowing that implementing Dr. Hausners model has a track record of success.

The Principal Coaching Model is an excellent book that every principal, supervisor of principals, and district superintendent must read. It is time for district-level decision makers to implement Dr. Hausners coaching model. The days of being considered a good principal because the school had a good band, athletic program, or choir are gone.

I have known Dr. Hausner since 2011. He was one of my doctoral students at the University of Southern California. After graduation, I recommended the university hire him as a adjunct professor. As the course lead, I noticed he quickly became an excellent professor and an asset to the program. In addition, I know Dr. Hausner to be one of the best principals I know because he understands teaching and learning. More importantly, he knows how to build capacity in his teaching staff through staff development, training, and coaching.

Today, as Dr. Hausner explains, being a principal is very complex and principals need support. Districts, as he mentions, need good staff development for their principals. They need an experienced coach who will listen, provide sound advice, and serve as a sounding board to the many challenges principals face.

I recommend this book, as Dr. Hausner explains, not only for principals but also for those aspiring to become principals. In The Principal Coaching Model, Dr. Hausner captures what principals need to be successful in the twenty-first century. Anyone who reads this book and applies the principles Dr. Hausner outlines should be a successful principal, have a very strong teaching staff, and more importantly know what to do when difficult situations arise.

Dr. Pedro E. Garcia

Superintendent, Nashville, TN (Retired)

Professor, Rossier School of Education,
University of Southern California (Retired)

After spending ten years as a sportscaster, I felt a calling to serve children. Even while broadcasting baseball games or hosting a television show, I always pictured myself in front of a classroom full of students. I felt I was needed to serve children. I experienced a calling, of sorts, and I chose education as a second career.

During the time I was in school earning a teaching credential, I could see my future in the role of principal as a goal even before my first day of teaching. I knew then that my purpose was, and still is, to make a positive difference in the lives of students every day. Writing this book is an avenue to support those who work for children every day, which is incredibly rewarding with the ultimate goal of helping children reach their potential through the adults that serve them.

As a K12 public school educator for over twenty years, I have experience as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, coordinator, and cabinet-level director. For this book, two areas of my background make me uniquely qualified to undertake this project: One, my fourteen years of serving as a site principal, and two, my role as coach to school principals. Also, I have served as an adjunct professor of education in the doctoral program at the University of Southern California.

As stated above, I have served in the role as a principal coach. In early 2005, I was approached by a colleague who encouraged me to share with others my successes and impactful strategies that I implemented as a principal. After some soul searching, Coaching School Leadership was born. I decided to create a principal coaching model that I believed would lead to increased student performance through improved principal effectiveness. I brought this model to principals in Hawaii on the island of Maui.