Library of Finished Works

These books are published and freely available to educators world-wide. You are welcome to read them online, and even download and print them for yourself. The text is © Martin Richards. If you would like to have printed books sent to your location, please use my Amazon Author Page.

Newsletter Articles and Stories

As background and further resources for self-study and entertainment 🤓, let's call it edutainment. Many of these have appeared as LinkedIn newsletters since 2022.

Studio - Requested Resources

This is my sharing portal for collaborators who have requested specific guides, articles and stories. Collaborators can edit and comment as agreed.

Radio - Podcasts and Recordings

If you prefer listening to reading, here they are.

Guides

Most of these books are intended to point the way ahead for educators who want to use more coaching in their work.

• How to Bring Coaching into Schools is a handbook for coaches. Transform teaching. Empower educators. Elevate learning. Discover how coaching can spark lasting change in your local school community.

• 700 Lesson Plans isn’t a stack of ready-made lessons. It’s your toolkit for creating the perfect one, every time. With 27 adaptable structures and over 700 creative variations.

• Coaching in the Classroom contains 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 is a practical, empowering guide for educators who want to lead meaningful coaching conversations. 

• The Core of the Coaching Approach is a practical guide for educators and leaders who want to weave coaching into their everyday work. 

• 12 Action Steps - series. These two books, written in 2023 and 2024, are based on the original "Six Steps to a Coaching Classroom" my first book written in 2014. They contain articles and short stories about what a coaching approach looks and sounds like in a variety of educational contexts. 

• Lessons from Laryngitis, what happens when the teacher loses their voice?

• Volunteer Tutoring, a short story from working with young learners outside the classroom.

True Stories

The books, written by other teachers who coach, are factual.

Teachers who Coach - three non-fiction plus one fictional story

Includes: Teachers who Coach Spring 2024, Summer 2024, and Autumn 2024 and Eight Teachers.

I wrote Eight Teachers in 2023, as a work of fiction, imagining the response of teachers who had read my previous Steps to a Coaching Classroom books. Whilst I was researching and writing, it I reached out to as many real teachers I could find. I found dozens who had their own stories to tell! So I published their stories too. In fact, I published them first.

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.

In 2026, I will embark on a Around-the World, Around-the Clock Adventure. I hope to meet many more teachers and school leaders who use coaching in their work, collect their stories and publish them here.

Visions

These books are fiction, based on lived experience and the dream that educators will be trained in the skills associated with coaching.

Rick Midwinter Stories - fiction based on lived experience

The first two books, The Educator's Apprentice and The Educator's Agreement were written in 2022 and 2023, each have a storyline based on what a coaching approach looks and sounds like in a variety of educational contexts. This was my first attempt at writing longer stories and it took months to write each one and the first time I used the services of an editor. I learned a great deal about pacing and framing my words. 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, the first of which Willow Ridge Primary School and Elmsvik High School were published in September 2025. This time the writing process included experimentation with AI as a writing tool.

There is another Rick Midwinter book, Every Teacher a Coach, as yet unreleased. It was written mainly using AI to sketch possible storylines and emulate my writing style. I was impressed by what AI could do (with a little help), and immersed myself in the process of collaborative writing, with AI.