Coaching and Mentoring

Support from an experienced consultant with first-hand experience and an understanding of the exciting, unique and challenging aspects of your role.

Whatever your Principal and Leadership Mentoring and Coaching needs are…

schoolED provides you:

support from an experienced consultant with first-hand experience and an understanding of the exciting, unique and challenging aspects of your role
with the consultant shape your own outcomes with advice, guidance and informed opinions on a range of aspects
your consultant mentor/coach will use their own experiences to articulate how you can deal with situations and provide advice and guidance on how to proceed
have your leadership team work more effectively to improve performance
by reflecting on your current leadership practice, you will understand your responsibilities to improve your performance
with the help of a mentor you will acquire new skills and knowledge and build upon your own
let you mentor/coach be a sounding board where they will seek to understand more and then advise.

Critical Friend

At schoolED we understand that a critical friend is an educational professional who is committed to helping an educator or school improve.

As a critical friend we will be someone who is encouraging and supportive, but who also provides honest and often candid feedback that may be uncomfortable or difficult to hear. We agree to speak truthfully, but constructively, about weaknesses, problems, and emotionally charged issues. We currently work as ‘challenge partners’ in many schools and you can be assured of our Confidentiality – Commitment – Reliability

Our consultants as critical friends will become someone:

you trust and respect
you have a strong relationship with,
who provides honest and critical feedback

They are:

a skilled observer and listener
able to ask provocative/stretch questions
able to provide balance between support and challenge
willing to take the time to develop an understanding of your school context
used to providing different perspectives/fresh eyes
experienced in critique utilising higher order thinking
available