This is my Library. You can read most of my books online for free, as flipbooks.
Some books are available as paperbacks on Amazon.
I am writing a series of books based on the character Rick Midwinter, who first appeared in the two short stories, "The Educator's Apprentice" and "The Educators' Agreement" which you can read below.
The Rick Midwinter stories in production are:
Willow Ridge Primary School.
This story begins with the sound of School Headteacher Moira tapping her pen against a closed notebook. Her Assistant Reuben sits opposite her, one hand curled around a mug of coffee gone cold.
Moira says, “Do you ever get the sense… that we’re missing something?”
The story ends with Moira and Reuben holding a workshop for their staff.
Elmsvik High School.
The story opens when the assistant principal, Lena Nyström, met Rick at the door to her office. She was brisk, composed, and slightly amused by the situation. Rick had been invited to a meeting. But why??
“So,” she said, as they sat down in a glass-walled conference room just off the staff lounge, “you’re offering… conversations?”
The story ends with Rick holding a workshop for the staff.
Every Teacher a Coach
Rick gets interviewed for the fictional Education Horizons Magazine. The interviewer spends a day with Rick . the man who had made a quiet career out of coaching teachers and students. Rick answers tough questions to show how curiosity, conversation and “holding space” are better ways of handling the old problems of motivation, behaviour and performance.
Teachers beginning to use Coaching Skills in their Classrooms
It's a long title, and it may change. There are 12 fictitious stories about teachers deliberately adding coaching concepts to their teaching.
The Coaching Classroom
7 Case Studies for training teachers to become aware of the mistakes they might make when implementing a coaching approach and using coaching models and questions in their classrooms.
10 Coaching Models
Useful questions to ask for each stage of ten coaching models. Combined, these questions give millions of coaching sessions in one book. There is a second book planned with 10 other models, including GROW.
I wrote "Eight Teachers" in 2023, as a work of fiction, imagining teachers had read my previous "Steps to a Coaching Classroom" books. Whilst I was writing, it I wondered how many real teachers I could find. I found dozens! The three "Teachers who Coach" books were written in 2024. Most of the text in these books was written by the respective authors. I hold the copyrights.
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These two books, written in 2022 and 2023, each have a story about what a coaching approach looks and sounds like in a variety of educational contexts. This was my first attempt at writing longer stories.
This work is fictional, based on my lived experience of giving talks to college students and coaching teachers during 2018-2022.
The main character Rick Midwinter is now the focus of a new series of books due for publication in 2025.
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These two books, written in 2023 and 2024, are based on the original "Six Steps to a Coaching Classroom" that I wrote in 2014. They contain articles and short stories about what a coaching approach looks and sounds like in a variety of educational contexts. They are in a way 'Coaching Cook Books'.
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I wrote these three books during the summer of 2020, when I was beginning to think I was running out of time because I had developed a serious hart condition and needed urgent surgery. I wanted to show that change can come in surprising ways.
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I realised early oo that bringing change of any kind to an all-encompassing system like the Education System, was going to take a long time. I wrote the first book in 2017, the second in 2021 and I am going to write the last one in 2028, at which time I will be 72 years young and will have successfully passed the torch to the next generation.
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