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Robert Villanova

Robert Villanova (bobvillanova@gmail.com) is a district leadership consultant at Partners for Educational Leadership.

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5 guiding questions build a strategic approach to leadership coaching

By Sarah Birkeland, Richard Lemons, Isobel Stevenson and Robert Villanova
| April 1, 2022

Leadership matters. In fact, research identifies leadership as second only to teaching in school-related factors influencing student achievement (Louis et al., 2010). As districts seek ways to improve the quality of school leadership, they often turn to coaching. And coaching can improve leaders’ effectiveness — under the right conditions (Grant […]