Author: Dr. Michelle Burkhard

Coaching Skills for Educators

52 Tips to Maximizing Others Performance in the Classroom

Released January 2025
ISBN:  78-1-956465-22-8

About Coaching Skills for Educators

Educator Skill Building by Dr. Michelle Burkhard is an essential guide for education coaches and leaders looking to elevate their coaching skills and drive impactful change in their educational settings. Dr. Burkhard, a renowned Coach Doctor with a PhD, brings her extensive experience in education and her deep understanding of transformational coaching to this comprehensive book. She combines her expertise as a certified transformation consultant with practical strategies that are grounded in research and tailored for real-world application. Drawing from her years of working with educators, leaders, and organizations, Dr. Burkhard offers you a wealth of knowledge on how to effectively coach for lasting results.

This book is structured around concise, actionable tips designed to help educators unlock their coaching potential. Each tip emphasizes the power of asking the right questions, building meaningful rapport, and creating a safe, supportive environment for growth and transformation. Dr. Burkhard highlights the importance of understanding the coachee as a whole person—considering both personal and professional dimensions—and provides strategies for addressing underlying issues that impact performance. Through her approachable and insightful style, she illustrates how educators can use curiosity, empathy, and reflective practices to facilitate deep self-awareness and goal setting.

Dr. Burkhard also delves into the nuances of the coaching process, offering a performance hierarchy of coaching interventions—from multiple training sessions with coaching to group coaching on shared goals and more. She provides a clear roadmap for selecting the most effective approach based on time, resources, and desired outcomes. By guiding readers through common coaching challenges such as managing resistance, bridging the gap between knowing and doing, and fostering resilience in the face of fear and insecurity, she helps them navigate the complexities of the coaching relationship with confidence and skill.

As an internationally sought-after speaker and trainer, Dr. Burkhard is on a mission to transform the face of education by fostering individualized empowerment and respect at all levels. Her book reflects this mission, encouraging educators to go beyond surface-level coaching to uncover the deep, subconscious drivers of behavior in their coachees. She teaches that true coaching is not about giving answers but about mining for insights with powerful, open-ended questions that lead to meaningful and lasting change.

"Educator Skill Building" is more than just a tip book; it’s a call to action for education coaches and leaders to rethink how they approach professional development, leadership, and growth. Dr. Burkhard emphasizes the need for a shift from traditional top-down models to a more inclusive, empowering style of leadership that honors the unique potential of the individual. She equips readers with the tools to create a collaborative, goal-focused coaching process that aligns with the specific needs and strengths of their coachees. With her guidance, educators can learn to build trust, foster self-efficacy, and inspire transformational change.

By leveraging her extensive background and research in coaching, Dr. Michelle Burkhard offers educators a powerful resource that combines theory with practice. Her insights and strategies are designed to help readers develop a coaching mindset that is adaptable, effective, and deeply human-centered. Whether you are a teacher, administrator, or educational leader, Educator Skill Building provides the knowledge, skills, and inspiration needed to master the art of coaching and maximize your impact on the future of education.

About Dr. Michelle Burkhard

Dr. Michelle Burkhard is a Coach Doctor. She uses her extensive background in the education field to help educational coaches and leaders increase their effectiveness and efficiency.

She is a certified transformation consultant and helps individuals, groups, and systems through the change process. Her education and experience in coaching inform her daily work. She is on a mission to help change the face of education to one of individualized empowerment and respect, at all levels. She is a highly requested international speaker and trainer. When not serving, she enjoys actively engaging with her three children, Josiah, Hannah, and Eliana.

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  Dr. Michelle Burkhard in her book provides practical strategies to navigate challenges, ask the right questions, and create a supportive environment for success. Dr. Michelle Burkhard in her groundbreaking work in Coaching Skills for Educators - 52 Tips to Maximizing Others Performance in the Classroom combines her expertise as a certified transformation consultant with practical strategies that are grounded in research and tailored for real-world application.

Midland, MI – Coaching Skills for Educators - 52 Tips to Maximizing Others Performance in the Classroom Dr. Michelle Burkhard offers educators a powerful resource that combines theory with practice. Her insights and strategies are designed to help readers develop a coaching mindset that is adaptable, effective, and deeply human-centered. Whether you are a teacher, administrator, or educational leader, Coaching Skills for Educators provides the knowledge, skills, and inspiration needed to master the art of coaching and maximize your impact on the future of education.

Included in this power-packed, bite-sized book are sections for education coaches and leaders to rethink how they approach professional development, leadership, and growth. which include:

• What Coaching Is
• Inside the Coachee
• Learning Process
• Power of Reflection
• Personalities & Coaching
• Successful Coaching Relationship
• Coaching Models
• Dealing with Resistance
• Not All Goals Are Created Equal
• Leadership & Coaching

About Michelle Burkhard:
Dr. Michelle Burkhard is a Coach Doctor. She uses her extensive background in the education field to help educational coaches and leaders increase their effectiveness and efficiency.

She is a certified transformation consultant and helps individuals, groups, and systems through the change process. Her education and experience in coaching inform her daily work. She is on a mission to help change the face of education to one of individualized empowerment and respect, at all levels. She is a highly requested international speaker and trainer. When not serving, she enjoys actively engaging with her three children, Josiah, Hannah, and Eliana.

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