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April 3, 2025
Episode Notes: -Education is what Christian’s journey revolves around. “I am most passionate about education. I want to imagine a time when everyone has access to excellent education.” That is what motivates him. He has reflected on how access to excellent education has impacted him, given him more opportunities, and his journey. -Discovering coaching was a transformational moment for me. Coaching is the most respectful way to support people’s learning and professional development. And it's the most empowering way of doing that. Once I learned about coaching, there was no going back. My question became how can we use coaching most effectively in an educational setting. Then I learned the art of positive psychology which is the science of living or performance. -As coaches we are supporting people to be at their best. By linking coaching, which is the methodology of helping others meet desired change, and positive psychology, which is the science of being at our best, we bring out the best in others. Education gives us the tools to pursue our goals. It also helps us overcome barriers. Everyone needs a good education. -There is something with each of us deciding what is the best contribution we can make. Some are amazing teachers… some are amazing leaders… Some are amazing support staff. Coaching matched my need to do well and my general approach to life. I love to see people succeed. -Our jobs as coaches relate to other peoples’ successes. -Radical Listening: THe Art of True Connection Book- Our job as coaches is helping others to be at their best. -We hope the listeners are ensuring they are at their best. -Radical Listening: Take what coaches already know and share it with a much larger audience. It expands to so many more professional roles that could be enhanced by better listening. -One of my biggest strengths is that I am a learner and co-authoring with someone else can be such a remarkable learning experience. -Connection to the C3 Podcast: Connecting Coaches’ Cognition, and the subtitle of the book is ‘The Art of True Connection.’ Listening is not reactive and it is actually proactive. We can use the skill of listening to connect with other people. -Radical Listening- We see listening as a two way interaction. -Work with each other in partnership to pull someone forward. -In the moments that are the hardest to relate, reach out, and be able to engage can be the most powerful. -Radical Listening Book is very practical. We are all good listeners already. We listen in empowering and powerful ways to others. Start with an intention. Imagine you are about to go into a scenario, take a moment to think, what is my intention in this conversation? -3 Social Intentions: Connect, Appreciate, & Influences -3 Cognitive Intentions: Understand, Solve, & Listening in Order to Learn -Depending on our intention we listen in different ways. -Solving is a trap- when they really want to be listened to, not find a solution. -Notice barriers of our listening: What can get in the way of our listening to others? -Time? - Time Poverty -I know what is best in this situation? -Internal barriers or internal dialogue -Quieting and Quietening - one of the skills to be a radical listener is to create an environment for the listening to happen, the other is to create an environment that is not full of distractions. Difficult in education but minimizing what we can and shielding the conversation. Trying to show the conversation is important for us. -Skill that is challenging is interjecting. We think - don't just go quiet or not speak. Jump in and engage. It helps to build this sense of rapport. Some programs say to not do this, but if I don't respond to those big emotions it breaks the sense of being with the other person. It is all the nonverbals. It is a building of rapport. -Build up the energy of the conversion by connecting with them. Finesse and optimal matching required with discernment. -Making sure the way we a
March 6, 2025
Episode Notes: -Served in a wealth of roles within education from teaching, coaching, to administration. -Contract work for curriculum companie and Senior Consultant for Learning Forward -Mentoring Program through Learning Forward- a learning cycle with three parts. 1. Diagnose 2. Coaching Support 3. Monitoring Progress and Reflect -The mentors only goal is to help the mentee grow professionally. You have to communicate effectively through listening, paraphrasing, questioning, and giving quality feedback. -Work life balance and time management are two big factors that can be barriers for new teachers, as well as big behaviors. -We can support and retain teachers through the use of a specifically assigned mentor. Also having a good, collaborative team can be a huge difference in morale and make you not feel alone in this difficult job. -Monthly mentor/mentee check in meetings are also powerful in supporting our newest educators. -This job does not get easier, you just get better - because you have more tools and resources in your toolbox. -Establish strong and trusting relationships. Develop partnership agreements to foster that strong relationship- sets the purpose of the relationship. -We assign mentors as soon as is possible. We want to be proactive in building that relationship and that they are part of a team and a culture. -Mentor check ins - agenda - and tailor to strategic points in the year to ensure we are checking in and providing support. Your success is our success! -Observation and feedback are essential to growing as an educator. Utilize SMART goals between mentor and mentee. Make it timely and attainable, so the mentee can feel that success in a timely manner. -Coaching is a way to scale your impact, a way to impact more students through educators. Every educator needs a coach. -If you could fix one thing about this situation, what would it be? If you could wave a magic wand and it would fix the hardest parts of this situation, what would it be? In a perfect world, what would this look like? Connect with Leslie: -X: @ldhirsh -Learning Forward Consulting Services -Mentoring New Teachers: A Learning Cycle Approach go to LearningForward.org —> Bookstore
February 6, 2025
Episode Notes: -High Tech High- PBL Based Leader -International Educator to move from teacher focused to student focused learning. -Moving from sage on the stage to the guide on the side. Where do you start? Look at the physical environment first. Eliminating the ‘front’ of the classroom and teacher desk, which changes the dynamics in the room. It makes any space in the room a learning space. -Have students help in the redesign process around what their needs are, the environment dictates what the learning looks like. Shared decision making is pivotal. -Giving voice and choice, involving the students within each portion of the learning process. -Lead with questions- student generated or open ended? -Encouraging student independence - it does not come overnight, structures need to be put into place over time. -Project Based Learning - student driven - foster that level of independence with critical thinking with support and then slowly take some of those supports away. -Make things highly visual in your classroom - even progression within learning. -Classroom culture that encourages students to ask questions, explore, and find inquiry within their own learning. -How do I set up an environment that fosters that type of inquiry? Work to gather and group questions together and gauge interest so you can structure accordingly. Start with the student at the center of the lesson. -Don't lead with content, lead with inquiry. What is an open ended challenge you can present? What is meaningful to them? How can you scaffold their learning by addressing that inquiry? -Rigor - having high expectations for student learning - have to teach them to not rely on us as much. It is not about jumping and checking boxes. It has to be led by wonder and inquiry. -Try to eliminate teacher time in the front of the room. How can you reach the same end without the teacher being the main focus? Have students present their learning or share out. It is a great formative assessment. -How can they articulate their learning in a way that is meaningful to them? -Coaching means reaching your own identified personalized goals. -A mentor or a coach will always be my saving grace in education. Reach out as you need someone to coach you through. Shift models are so important and have made a world of difference and have brought back the joy! -Find your mentor or your coach. Every journey starts small, every journey starts with a single step. What will your first step be? Connect with Kyle: -Website - https://transformschool.com/ - this has resources, links, scorecards, blogpost, training, and his podcast. -Email- [email protected] -LinkedIn - Kyle Wagner - reach out
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