The Art of Coaching
Posted on February 16, 2022 by Julie Rembrandt
3/4 Learning Specialist
Summary of workshop/​opportunity
This workshop required the participants to do a lot of individual work, based on Elena’ Aguilar’s book, The Art of Coaching (2013). It introduced participants to a variety of tools and resources to improve your coaching skills, and then practice these skills with a small group.
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Goals & Collaborations
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What were your big takeaways from your workshop or project?
I always have a goal of fine tuning how I am supporting the teachers. Using these tools will help our relationships and ultimately help our students.
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How does what you learned connect to your goals this year?
I always have a goal of fine tuning how I am supporting the teachers. Using these tools will help our relationships and ultimately help our students.
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How might this opportunity lead to collaboration with other faculty?
This workshop was all about fine tuning my skills to collaborate with other faculty! I look forward to using these strategies and hope this will lead to more collaboration.
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Would you recommend this opportunity?
Yes
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PD #253
Ten steps for embedding executive skills into the daily classroom
Posted on October 10, 2021 by Julie Rembrandt
3/4 Learning Specialist
Summary of workshop/​opportunity
The workshop went through the 11 components of executive skills (foundational and advanced) and ways to improve them in the classroom. It shared different curriculums that have been designed around explicitly teaching ef skills.
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Goals & Collaborations
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What were your big takeaways from your workshop or project?
We need to be more explicit in our teaching/modeling of these skills and give students time to practice the skills. Looking at all of the different areas of executive functioning skills helps to reframe the way we look at students and areas that they might be struggling in.
How does what you learned connect to your goals this year?
One of my goals this year is to look at EF curriculum and try on teaching some of the skills to either the third or fourth graders.
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How might this opportunity lead to collaboration with other faculty?
I brought this PD to the SSS team. We talked about digging deeper into these skills within our team meetings and hopefully planning some lessons that we can introduce across the grade levels. I hope to collaboarte with the 3rd grade teaching team on this as well.
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Would you recommend this opportunity?
Yes
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Optionally, offer a one sentence recommendation for the opportunity.
Looking at these skills is so important for ALL students
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PD #244