Facilitative Competency-Based Coaching

All NYC Leadership Academy coaches use our unique, facilitative, competency-based coaching model. In this model, the coach and principal collectively identify a set of school leadership competencies (skills, knowledge and behaviors) that will be the focus of their work. The coach creates a trusting, collaborative environment that enables the principal to engage in critical and targeted reflection on her/his practice as it relates to the competencies with the goal of facilitating the paradigm or behavioral shifts necessary for the principal to develop her/his leadership capacity. The majority of coaching takes place at the principal's school and often follows an observation of the principal's leadership practice.