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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 educators who are interested in honing their skills in incorporating social-emotional learning and creating positive climates in their schools and classrooms. Our coaches work to form strong coaching partnerships with educators and collaboratively identify personal development goals, providing modeling, observation and feedback, and quality time together — ideally across a full academic year.At the School Culture and Climate Initiative, we offer high-quality professional development (PD) designed to empower educators and school communities to create positive, supportive environments where students and families thrive.

What We Offer

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

Co-Planning

Partnering with educators to build lessons and units that weave SEL and culture into everyday instruction.

Goal-Setting

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

Co-Teaching

Teaching alongside educators in real time to model strategies as they unfold.

Modeling

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

Observation & Feedback

Observing classrooms and offering specific, actionable feedback for growth.

Teachers benefit by:

  • Receiving specific feedback that allows for skill development and growth.
  • Setting personal goals that allow each teacher to maximize their full potential.
  • Cultivating classrooms where the learning environment is positive and engaging.
  • Developing and managing nurturing relationships with their students.

Administrators 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 in the larger school community.

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