On Monday, December 19, I along with Debra Crouch spoke with Isobel Stevenson.
Isobel is the author of The Coaching Letter, a newsletter that is about “organizational culture and intelligent failure”. She is also the author of multiple books, including Making Coaching Matter: Leading Continuous Improvement in Schools, with Sarah Woulfin and Kerry Lord (Teachers College Press, 2023).
In our conversation we explored a number of questions around continuous school improvement, including:
You promote “intelligent failure” as an organizational disposition, where teachers and leaders are intentionally making mistakes. This feels counter to most school cultures. What conditions need to exist for this to be a reality?
Is a “culture of coaching” the answer to the problem of the status quo? If not, what else?
If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing about schools as they currently are, what would it be?
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