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SEL Coaching

Empower your educators with personalized coaching and ongoing support.

Coaching is an essential component of an effective professional development program. Coaching can build will, skill, knowledge, and capacity because it can go where no other professional development has gone before: into the intellect, behaviors, practices, beliefs, values, and feelings of an educator.

Elena Aguilar — The Art of Coaching

The School Culture and Climate Initiative offers one-on-one or small group coaching for staff, leaders, and other youth-serving personnel who are interested in honing their skills in incorporating social-emotional learning and creating positive climates in their programs, classrooms, camps, and workplaces. Our coaches work to form strong coaching partnerships and collaboratively identify personal development goals, providing modeling, observation and feedback, and quality time together — ideally across a full program year.

What We Offer

Whether you’re interested in supporting new staff, fostering staff leaders as mentors, or training your whole team in a set of SEL skills, our coaching supports include:

Co-Planning

Partnering with staff to build plans and programs that weave SEL and culture into everyday practice.

Goal-Setting

Identifying clear, personalized goals that guide each coaching relationship forward.

Co-Facilitating

Facilitating alongside staff in real time to model strategies as they unfold.

Modeling

Demonstrating practices live, for one staff member or a whole team, to make new skills concrete.

Observation & Feedback

Observing programs and offering specific, actionable feedback for growth.

Staff benefit by:

  • Receiving specific feedback that allows for skill development and growth.
  • Setting personal goals that allow each staff member to maximize their full potential.
  • Cultivating spaces where the environment is positive and engaging.
  • Developing and managing nurturing relationships with the youth they serve.

Leaders benefit by:

  • Receiving tools to help staff better collaborate, manage stress, and maintain their overall well-being.
  • Collaborating with the coach regularly to ensure positive outcomes across the organization.

To learn more about SEL coaching, contact Liz Warner, Co-Director of the School Culture and Climate Initiative.