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Why Teachers Stop Coaching When They Become Leaders (Education Leaders Live)

Why coaching fails in schools isn't a mystery. The answer is probably sitting in the staffroom. Teachers spend years learning how to draw the best out of young people - asking questions instead of giving answers, building trust before expecting vulnerability, listening before responding. Then they get promoted. And somehow, under the pressure of leadership, almost all of it disappears. In this month's Education Leaders Live, Shane Leaning and Chris Scorer (Koru Education) unpack three episodes from the Education Leaders podcast - and find the same uncomfortable tension running through all of them. Chris put it plainly: "You'd never walk into a classroom and tell kids to do something just because you're telling them to. Yet leadership very often fails to do exactly that." So what gets in the way? And what would it take to actually close the gap between the way great teachers coach young people and the way leaders coach each other? Three big conversations this month: 1. Why coaching programmes fail (with Gene Tevonetti) It's not the method. It's not the training. The most common reason coaching falls apart in schools is a problem with confidentiality - specifically, what gets shared, what doesn't, and whether anyone ever agreed on the difference. Shane and Chris dig into Gene's research and ask: what does a coaching culture actually require to survive? 2. Why smart leaders make terrible decisions (solo episode) Shane explored five cognitive biases that show up constantly in school leadership - anchoring, availability bias, the endowment effect, groupthink, and optimism bias. Chris brought the economist's perspective: Richard Thaler built behavioural economics to help people make better decisions. He also ran workshops for Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk on how to manipulate people via their websites. Chris felt genuinely heartbroken about that. The contrast with Tim Berners-Lee gifting the internet to the world - no commercial strings attached - sparked one of the sharpest exchanges of the episode. 3. The future of British international schools abroad (with Simon Probert, Episode 150) What is a British international school actually for in 2025? Simon Probert's research introduces the idea of "rooted cosmopolitanism" - the difference between raising students to be "global citizens" (which can leave them belonging to nowhere) versus students who are deeply rooted in their own culture and also genuinely at home in the world. With international school demographics shifting rapidly - particularly in cities like Shanghai - this question has become urgent for thousands of school leaders right now. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Welcome and what's been happening this month 2:29 - Episode roundup: who's been on this month 4:33 - Why coaching programmes fail: Gene Tevonetti discussion 6:05 - What is coaching, actually? Definitions, tensions, the directive vs dialogical debate 9:34 - Why teachers coach students brilliantly but struggle to coach colleagues 11:18 - The pressure problem: what happens to good intentions in leadership 15:15 - Confidentiality in coaching - Gene's challenge on what should be shared 17:15 - Safeguarding, psychological safety, and the coaching agreement 19:38 - Chris on prenups and the magic of the coaching relationship 22:41 - Why smart leaders make terrible decisions: the five biases 23:51 - Gut instinct vs data: Chris's honest tension 27:46 - Richard Thaler, behavioural economics, and the Jeff Bezos problem 29:04 - Tim Berners-Lee vs Thaler: with great power comes great responsibility 33:26 - Simon Probert: the future of British international schools (Episode 150!) 34:42 - Where did British international schools come from, and what are they for now? 35:36 - Rooted cosmopolitanism: belonging to somewhere while being open to everywhere 37:53 - Commercial pressures, colonial echoes, and what it means to carry a British brand abroad 41:07 - International school identity crises: who is the school actually for? 44:00 - Chris's easy win (Shane's words: "Chris Solves the World") 44:15 - Language as gateway to culture 47:18 - Newcastle United corner (sorry, it had to happen) 47:29 - Closing reflections: teachers as a force for good ABOUT EDUCATION LEADERS LIVE Education Leaders Live is the companion show to the Education Leaders podcast. Hosted by Shane Leaning with co-host Chris Scorer (Koru Education), it's a monthly live discussion where listeners can join the conversation, share their own experiences, and push back on ideas from the podcast. Live every last Thursday of the month at 6pm Shanghai / 10am UK. Join at http://educationleaders.live or on LinkedIn and YouTube. http://educationleaders.co/podcast #CoachingInSchools #SchoolLeadership #EducationLeaders #LeadershipCoaching #InternationalSchools #CognitiveBias #InstructionalCoaching #EducationLeadersLive #BritishSchoolsAbroad #TeacherLeadership