Are you thinking about your own professional learning in the year to come? Here are three lessons we learned in 2021, what they mean for us in 2022 and potential implications for your own approach to PD.
Tag: leadership
Four Questions If You Want to Lead for Equity
Today I’m sharing four questions to think through your readiness to center equity in your leadership or coaching practice.
What Will You Do Differently This Year to Center Equity?
A few tips for how you can turn learning into action to center equity this school year.
Three Things to Consider Doing Differently This Year With Your Team
Summer is renewal time for educators, and this year more than ever, educators need to recover and replenish so they can return reenergized in the fall. As we emerge from this pandemic, it is important to consider these three things to do differently this year with your team.
Episode 86: Coaching Conversation: Addressing Race-Based Opportunity Gaps
On today’s episode Elena coaches an instructional coach who works at a school that is the top performing high school in the state where despite their considerable success, students of color are being underserved. While this reality is known and discussed at the district and school-wide level, disparities are not being addressed at the individual classroom level. Elena’s coachee wants to change that and asked to be coached to figure out what is holding her back and how to consistently coach with an equity lens. Together the two discuss 7 foundational steps to take to begin building her foundation for coaching for equity.
Episode 85: You Want to Coach for Equity? Start Here.
In this Coaches’ Corner episode Elena shows up as your coach and expertly guides you through some exercises and prompts to consider if you are looking to coach for equity.
Episode 83: Coaching Conversation: How Do I Set Our Coaching Program Up for Success?
How do you approach starting a new coaching program? Today Elena shares her advice for what you need to consider on the front-end to set your coaching program up for success.
Episode 82: Coaching Conversation: Creating Space
Today on the podcast Elena coaches a former principal turned regional administrator in a power packed 30-minute conversation. The two thought they were going to be focusing on navigating conflict but you’ll hear how with one insightful question the focus shifts to providing the space to reflect on the past turbulent year and what is possible when emotions are explored and we root in our individual and collective experiences.
It’s Time for New Leadership Tools
Expectations for leaders are always high, but in times of crisis, even more is at stake. And therein lies the paradox. Just when people in crisis need and expect more from their leaders, that’s when a leader can cave the hardest.