Empowering Educational
Leaders for Success
Destino Coaching is a leading provider of professional coaching services in the education sector. We specialise in coaching headteachers and principals, as well as implementing coaching programs in schools.
Coaching
Coaching for Headteachers
I am an ICF-credentialed coach and former headteacher. Destino Coaching was formed from my desire to serve headteachers and give them a voice. Through coaching, I partner with you to help you achieve your big dreams for your school, without compromising your health…
Coaching in Schools
In our Coaching in Schools programme we work with school leaders to explore how coaching methods can improve the quality of teaching in your school or group of schools. The areas we look at and support with are Codifying teaching approaches..
Leap
Programme
LEAP is a course for Headteachers. It is delivered over seven live Zoom sessions led by Nadia and includes a small, private networking group hosted online as well as a workbook for each module.
Learn new ways of framing challenges so that you feel in control, build the school you want and stay in the job longer.
Nadia, former Headteacher and school leadership coach, challenges you to look within for the answers to difficult situations and to think bigger about your potential to influence.
If you want to to learn some new ways to manage your work and think more broadly about being a Headteacher, this book will help you. Nadia draws on over 20 years of leadership and coaching in schools to bring you the key issues facing Headteachers as well as some ways forward. Through mindset work, strategic planning and some work on yourself, you can be fulfilled in headship even in the most challenging circumstances. This book shows you how. Be prepared to look inward, to look at things differently and to grow and learn. You can be happy in headship without compromising your well-being.
Book Reviews
Hildi Mitchell
Headteacher Downs Infant School
Jeremy Rowe
CEO Waveny Academy Trust Author: ‘Sorting out Behaviour’
Claire Heald
Director of Education
David Gartland
CEO Darlington FE College
Jonathan Coy
CEO HeadteacherChat
Liz Robinson
CEO, Big Education
Meet the Team
Nadia Hewstone
and Mentor
Aziza Cranmer
Jen Alford
Coach
Michael Hewstone
Lead
Victoria Wulff
PA
Tessa Farr
Leadership Coach
Blog
Building trust and overcoming doubt: the first year of headship
Jen Alford, headteacher at Malvern Wells CofE Primary School, speaks candidly about the realities of overcoming imposter syndrome, building strong teams and maintaining work-life balance in the demanding role of headteacher. What was your journey to headship like? I started teaching in Coventry and became a standard leader within 2
Meeting the Needs of Our Most Complex, Anxious Learners
Blog post by Terri Wyse I am the Acting Headteacher of a secondary special school for pupils with Learning and Additional Needs. Since the start of my career I have worked with pupils with SEN in both mainstream and special school. I have been at my current school for the
It takes a village to raise a child
Blog post by Jane Prothero, Headteacher, Bradford Christian School In 1996 Hillary Clinton, the wife of the President of the United States, published a book on children and family values entitled “It Takes a Village”. The advert for the book says she ‘chronicled her quest—both deeply personal and, in the