Gavin Grift – författare

Transformative Talk assists an aspirant Coach in building their personal capabilities. It draws upon each of the insights and experiences of Cognitive Coaching Training Associates and Agency Trainers who are making it work. Each chapter at varying degrees reflects personal journeys shared with the explicit intention to assist you, the reader, in making connections to your own work and your growth as a coach. The material has been strategically selected to support educators who fulfill a variety of different roles. You will find information, insights and strategies to assist your growth from a variety of perspectives. These include reflections to assist classroom teachers, school leaders, and principals, support staff, coaches, systems leaders, and researchers. It encourages you to unleash the power of Cognitive Coaching for the students and colleagues you work with and in your ongoing goal to build both your identity and capacity as a mediator of thinking. Talking is critical to the complex, challenging, and intrinsically satisfying work of educators. This book provides the reader with the opportunity to continue transforming their talk so they can transform the thinking of others in the process of education.

Collaborative Teams That Work is the ultimate guide to excellent collaboration. To support your PLC's path forward, authors Colin Sloper and Gavin Grift outline 12 specific actions that lead to greater, more effective teamwork. Rely on this resource as you set up your collaborative teams, and then refer back to it before, during, and after meetings to maintain focus on the right work.Understand the positive effects of collaboration in education.Examine the cycle of learning and how it optimizes education for both students and teachers.Implement 12 actions to collaborate more effectively.Adapt the cycle of learning and collaborative techniques to other types of educational teams.See the big picture of collaboration and how the learning cycle fits into the educational system over many years.

Leadership is traditionally viewed as a competency-based skill. It is seen as something that people do rather than something they embody. This book challenges that narrative: leadership is about being – it is about who we are, who we need to become and who we can become to enable the learning and growth of others.Everyone in a school community who is responsible for someone else's learning is a Learning Leader, and the success of any school community is intrinsically bound to effective leadership at all levels. Five Ways of Being: What Learning Leaders think, do and say every day contends that the very nature or essence of successful leadership requires that each and every leader is open to:Being trustingBeing braveBeing a storytellerBeing purposefulBeing growth focused.Through 32 evidence-based practical strategies, readers are empowered to embrace these Five Ways of Being and improve their ability to genuinely lead learning in others. They will be able to look internally to overcome the challenges they face and create productive environments for both students and colleagues. By embodying the Five Ways of Being, their leadership will manifest in what they think, do and say every day.

The revised and updated second edition of the bestselling title, Teachers as Architects of Learning supports teachers to develop ideas, consider approaches and, in general, increase levels of consciousness about what they do, why they do it and how they might do it differently. The book enables teachers to develop their own blueprint for teaching through the exploration of twelve learning constructs and 100 strategies.Teachers as Architects of Learning facilitates teachers to build their wisdom around the art of teaching in order for deeper learning to prevail. It assists them to deconstruct their mental models in order to then construct new learning about their practice. These insights assist them in identifying beliefs that impact their behaviours as their teaching architecture evolves. The premise that beliefs influence behaviours is at the heart of Teachers as Architects of Learning.The authors draw from extensive personal experiences, research from the field and the reflections of teachers themselves to serve as a catalyst for thinking about their own practice in a way that lets learning lead.The second edition is a "e;must-have"e; book for any educator committed to the development of their own or other's practice.

Every school strives to better itself so that it can better its students. In Transformative Collaboration, the authors dive deep into one of the strongest strategies for school improvement--the PLC process. You will explore five collaboration-based commitments--from gaining clarity to building trust--that will ultimately help you build and sustain a PLC that provides the best possible avenues of learning to students. Commit to collaboration and use the five commitments to transform your school, understand what it means to be a PLC, find the courage to lead the process, build a climate of trust, shape school structures for success and create clarity in collaboration.

Transformative Talk assists an aspirant Coach in building their personal capabilities. It draws upon each of the insights and experiences of Cognitive Coaching Training Associates and Agency Trainers who are making it work. Each chapter at varying degrees reflects personal journeys shared with the explicit intention to assist you, the reader, in making connections to your own work and your growth as a coach.The material has been strategically selected to support educators who fulfill a variety of different roles. You will find information, insights and strategies to assist your growth from a variety of perspectives. These include reflections to assist classroom teachers, school leaders, and principals, support staff, coaches, systems leaders, and researchers.It encourages you to unleash the power of Cognitive Coaching for the students and colleagues you work with and in your ongoing goal to build both your identity and capacity as a mediator of thinking.Talking is critical to the complex, challenging, and intrinsically satisfying work of educators. This book provides the reader with the opportunity to continue transforming their talk so they can transform the thinking of others in the process of education.

Discover a practical, comprehensive model of effective professional learning communities. In this user-friendly guide, educators explore research-based steps and strategies designed to increase the effectiveness of collaborative teams and enhance PLCs. Examine how the PLC process can transform critical components of education—including curriculum, assessment, instruction, and teacher development—and use reproducible agendas, scales, and checklists to improve schoolwide practices.

Craft a personal blueprint for teaching that ensures student learning stands as the foundation of your classroom. Drawing on research from the field, reflections from teachers, and the authors' professional experience, Teachers as Architects of Learning guides educators in building their wisdom around the art of teaching. Find new and better ways to plan, implement, discuss, question, model, and more.

Use this resource to help students apply their existing knowledge most purposefully to new learning opportunities:

Gain a deeper understanding of the learning process through an extensive overview of key learning theories and their practical applications.Discover how a focus on learning rather than teaching benefits students.Explore twelve learning constructs, and learn ways of incorporating them into a learning-centered classroom.Reflect on teaching strategies, and develop more mindful approaches to class modeling, both in individual and collaborative group contexts.Examine the importance of students' investment in their own learning process, and create an environment in which students find more motivation, agency, and mindfulness in their learning.

Contents:AcknowledgmentsTable of ContentsAbout the AuthorsForewordChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: QuestioningChapter 3: Self-Assessment: Reflection and FeedbackChapter 4: Observing and ListeningChapter 5: Explicit InstructionChapter 6: Modeling and ExemplarsChapter 7: Support and SafetyChapter 8: TimeChapter 9: ExpectationChapter 10: LifeworldsChapter 11: DesireChapter 12: ResourcesChapter 13: Existing KnowledgeAppendixReferences and ResourcesIndex

Author Gavin Grift proposes that successful leadership is, at its core, a deeply personal endeavor built on self-awareness. This book equips teacher leaders with the knowledge and insight they need to meet the leader within themselves. With newfound leadership thinking, educators can remove mental barriers, become empowered to tackle the daily challenges ahead, and begin the journey to leading schools impactfully.

This book will help K–12 teacher leaders: Discover antidotes to persistent pain points in the work of a teacher and leaderDevelop self-knowledge to address beliefs, values, motivations, the perceptions of others, and moreLearn how to use the unconscious and conscious responses of others to gain insight about their leadership identitiesUse the lessons of several archetypes—the ostrich, the imposter, the pleaser, and more—to establish levers to overcome themEngage in exercises for self-work to help the leader within emergeContents:PrefaceForewordIntroductionChapter 1: Clarity Precedes CompetenceChapter 2: Pain Points and People—Agents of Self-AwarenessChapter 3: Where to Focus Your Self-AwarenessChapter 4: Common Pain Points for Middle LeadersChapter 5: The Pleaser—Overcoming the Need to Be LikedChapter 6: The Ostrich—Overcoming the Overwhelm of Constant ChangeChapter 7: The Imposter—Overcoming Self-Limiting BeliefsChapter 8: The Dynamo—Overcoming Not Having Enough TimeChapter 9: The Judge and Juror—Overcoming Difficult People at WorkConclusion: Coming Into ViewReferences and ResourcesIndex