The post pandemic era of Education is HERE, ripe for the rising, the recreating.
As school and district leaders you have enough on your plates and figuring out how to train your instructional coaches for all the skills they need in the post pandemic era is just too much
You don’t have to do this! I can work with your team and lift this for you!
Coaches and leaders are perfectly
positioned to recreate a system that actually works
They just need to know the coaching tools and approaches that are required to lead for transformation in the post pandemic era of education
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We are great at setting ourselves on fire
Now let’s be great at RISING!
The BURNING
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Teacher burnout is big.
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Trauma is as ubiquitous as the Chromebooks missing a key.
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And leaders and coaches are starting to droop under the weight of all they wish they could fix and make better.
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We have hurried to accelerate learning and “get back to the way things were” without deeply considering whether or not “the way things were” was working for the whole.
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There is antagonism between school leaders and teachers.
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Coaches feel lost when the strategy they were taught fails to move a teacher’s practice forward.
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School culture is suffering because no one feels particularly well and there are signs everywhere of a disconnection from dreaming and inspiration.
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Being “anit” and “dismantling” weren’t enough. They made it clear what we don’t want in schools but they didn’t help us create the vision for what we want to build a create.
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Coaching is random, inconsistently of benefit, and often creates more stress and disconnection between teachers and leaders.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
The RISING
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Your leadership team is guided by a clear vision of what you want to build and create together.
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Coaches and leaders have the tools and approaches to coaching they need in the post pandemic era.
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Coaching conversations reflect the values and visions of the school and they strengthen both individual relationships and the culture at large.
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Inspiration runs throughout every interaction - data meetings, coaching sessions, full staff gatherings, and the hallway vibe.
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What was good and valuable from pre pandemic times has been brought back and has been thoughtfully paired with the new skills and ways of being that are required now.
We can reinvent the wheel of the system because we are the wheel! We are the system!
As teachers, coaches, and leaders, we can heal and change this. Whatever we have in our minds as “the system,” guess what? We are the system. Much like when we sit in traffic and curse the traffic. We are the traffic. This is good news. It points to the intense power and possibility in each one of us. And now, imagine if we tackled change and the creation of the new way together.
As instructional coaches, we are leaders, we are culture creators, and we are change makers. We get to go first and we get to do it differently.
And that’s the mission and vision of Integrative Instructional Coaching.
Integrative Instructional Coaching is a comprehensive approach to tending to the mind, body, spirit of the teacher and the coach. It rejects dogma and embraces nuance and agility. It teaches coaches and leaders how to recreate and build a new dream in a time of uncertainty, upset, and frustration.
Have you or one of your coaches said, “Teachers need me to be a therapist! And I’m supposed to be their coach!”
Um, yep, we all pretty much need a therapist after global upheaval.
So we can stay mad and resistant to the current state.
Or we can grow into the necessary skills and ways of being that will set us free and have us meeting the needs of those we coach and lead.
Now your analytical brain is probably telling you about all the terrible data you’re trying to correct for and the instructional best practices and new curriculums you are trying to teach teachers and how there is no way to take on a new initiative, let alone one that might encourage you to slow down, to take a moment to dream, to consider how you want to feel in your leadership and service.
But for you smarty analytical types, just check in. How’s the rush and the hurry going? Is it getting you the adult culture of your dreams? Is it boosting teacher retention rates? Are students thriving? Are you?
See, the old way is open to recreation exactly at the points where it isn’t working for you or for those you serve.
Integration relies on the willingness to embrace both/and thinking. It asks you to be bigger than either/or. It calls us to consider what to keep, what to let go of, and to step into all the places where we can be bigger, truer versions of ourselves.
The thing the pandemic really showed us is that we don’t actually know how this life is going to go and with that in mind, we deserve to have every bit of support, nourishment, care, and, of course, strategy along the way that sets us up to feel our best, do our best, and become our best in coaching and leadership. So if you need a permission slip, here it is. Do you, be you, give boldly to the world and don’t pay too much attention to those who long for the old ways.
Space doesn’t change everything, but it shifts a lot!
Get your team of coaches and leaders to my retreat space for two days of immersive work. We sink into the experiences of being coached and lead in a integrative way and then rise up on to the balcony to survey the methods and why behind the approach. Your team will be trained in integrative instructional coaching and will emerge ready to put the toolkit of approaches and onramps to work the next day.
I can’t do this alone one more day.
That was never the freaking game! Let’s play to have you winning, held, honored, and tapped into your highest vision for your service and leadership. I coach a select group of school and district leaders who are ready to go all in on a new way forward.
Putting the Pieces Together
When it seems like so much has to shift, I can sit should to shoulder with you to design a visionary way forward so you and your team have a road map to the school, the culture, the student experience and succusses you have longed for.
When you come in a coach with me, you will get results.
You will experience that burn of transformation and the tingle of something new.
The results you can expect:
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Instructional coaching sessions tend to the holistic needs of the teacher all while moving the teacher’s instructional practice forward.
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The desired school culture is clear, vibrant, and alive.
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Coaches have the tools and approaches to coaching they need when adult trauma is present in a session or when conflict or breakdown occur.
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It’s no longer taboo to tend to the mind, body, and spirit of all humans serving within schools.
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You leadership team has a unified vision for coaching and leadership.
Why now?
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The post pandemic era of education is just as unique as the pandemic itself. It requires new skills and practices that allow for schools to be hubs of transformation and joy rather than overwhelm and suffering.
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Our students need us to lead. They need teachers who are supported in dynamic and powerful ways so that instruction improves quickly.
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There has never been a better time to recreate the system from the inside out.
About
My name is Maggie Riley
I served as an educator for thirteen years in Denver Public Schools and I freaking loved it! I loved teaching kids, lesson planning, meeting with my colleagues, parent teacher conferences, and I fell madly in love with coaching. This love didn’t come because it was easy. It was a love born out of struggle and confusion. How could I best coach my peers so that they tapped into their full greatness and inspiration?
Technical coaching and leadership skills are important and necessary but when implemented on their own the heart or essence of the work we longed to do in partnership with that teacher was gutted.
The technical requires the adaptive. It’s the peanut butter to the jelly. The black to the white.
You led during a global pandemic.
Take that in for a moment. You did that. You served kids or adults or you coached your peers. You were a beacon of safety and possibility through a collective dark, disruptive night of the soul.
And now we are in a new space. A new era. And in this era things are feeling a little rough.
There is a massive shut down to dreaming in education.
Teacher burnout is big. Trauma is as ubiquitous as the chromebooks missing a key. And leaders and coaches are starting to droop under the weight of all they wish they could fix and make better.
We have hurried to accelerate learning and “get back to the way things were” without deeply considering whether or not “the way things were” was working for the whole.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
As teachers, coaches, and leaders, we can heal and change this. Whatever we have in our minds as “the system,” guess what? We are the system. Much like when we sit in traffic and curse the traffic. We are the traffic. This is good news. It points to the intense power and possibility in each one of us. And now, imagine if we tackled change and the creation of the new way together.