Better Conversations ...
    Better Schools

There's a lot of conversation about how to make schools better. Unfortunately, the conversation often makes things worse. Evocative Coaching is being developed as a way to change that, and we start at the grassroots: in the classroom. How can teachers have conversations that call forth motivation and movement so they achieve desired outcomes and enhance their quality of life? Evocative Coaching answers that question.

Bringing together the best research and wisdom in educational leadership and professional coaching, Bob & Megan Tschannen-Moran have developed a simple yet profound way of facilitating new conversations in schools through Story Listening, Expressing Empathy, Appreciative Inquiry, and Design Thinking. It's a process that can get us beyond old ways of thinking, doing, and being. It's a process that can reinvigorate our passion for making schools better, one conversation at a time.

We invite you to join us on the journey. Our book, which comes out in July, can be preordered today; our pilot training program — utilizing convenient telephone and web-based technologies — launches in April 2010. By September, we expect a robust level of interest and training in this teacher-centered, no-fault, strengths-based approach to performance improvement.

The Evocative Coaching Model:
A Teacher-Centered, No-Fault, Strengths-Based Approach to Performance Improvement

The First Turn
Uses Story – Empathy
To Set the Stage

The Second Turn
Uses Inquiry – Design
To Forward the Action