As James Piggott, Deputy Director of Learning and Innovation at Whitgift School, prepares to facilitate his first coaching course for his colleagues, he takes us through his thinking around one big question—how can he convince his colleagues of the value of incorporating coaching into education?

The phrase ‘follow the child’ is one that defines the Montessori Method of Education. It also provides a strong ideological link between Montessori and the art of coaching children.

As a coach, your goal during a coaching conversation is not to perfectly wrap and deliver a gift. Instead, your aim is to help your coachee plant and water seeds of knowledge and insight. So, when you think about the context of self-coaching, what could Planting Seeds look like?

This past summer, Jane Czarny, veteran educator and life-long learner, took our Foundational Coaching Course. Here, she discusses her experience exploring coaching as a teacher, and as she took the course with her two children, as a parent as well.

“Students need to be able to help themselves more.” We recently heard this from the Vice Principal of Teaching and Learning at a state school that we work with. “In a perfect world,” she said, “our schools would be already using coaching with our students.”

At the end of last summer, Laura Megaw delivered St George’s first ever in-house BE Programme, followed by the BE Remix. She was delighted with the uptake from our Sixth Form students, with both coaching programmes being over-subscribed with a waiting list for places. Here are her top tips for launching a student coaching programme.