Why Coaching ?
“Knowing my students and my subject depends heavily on self-knowledge. When I do not know myself, I can not know my students.”
-Parker J. Palmer
The Courage to Teach
Emotionally competent and self aware adults support students in:
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Feeling Valued
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Feeling a sense of true belonging
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Being Empowered to take risks
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Developing healthy identities
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Maintaining healthy relationships
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Feeling safe to express emotions
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Achieving high-level goals and aspirations
Self-awareness, the ability to be introspective and comprehend our patterns, habits, biases, and conditioning, is the cornerstone of personal and professional transformation.
A growing body of research underscores the truth that successful implementation of initiatives starts with well balanced, self aware adults in the educational system.
The benefits are research-based !
We can not claim to be educators truly committed to DEIB and racial justice without looking deeply at our own biases and capacity for empathy and compassion.
Data indicates adult capacity for SEL is a mitigating factor of teacher burnout syndrome and educator emotional exhaustion.