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BLOGGING TO RETAIN EDUCATORS

5 Starting Points for Supporting Struggling Teachers

Shannon Klaft, M.Ed | Leadership Support, Teacher Support, Virtual Coaching, Mentoring

Helping struggling teachers is one of the many responsibilities that keep administrators awake at night.

Both Coaches and Mentors are Essential to Educators

Shannon Klaft, M.Ed | Leadership Support, Teacher Support,

Virtual Coaching, Virtual Professional Development, Mentoring

A common misconception is that if a school provides mentors for their new teachers, there is no need to provide coaching services. At first glance, it may seem like a mentoring program could take the place of coaching, but when you dig a little bit deeper, it is clear that there are some differences in the type of support coaches and mentors provide.

TESTIMONIALS

Shannon Klaft, M.Ed | Leadership Support, Teacher Support,

Virtual Coaching, Mentoring

5 Starting Points for Supporting Struggling Teachers

Helping struggling teachers is one of the many responsibilities that keep administrators awake at night.

Shannon Klaft, M.Ed | Leadership Support, Teacher Support,

Virtual Coaching, Virtual Professional Development, Mentoring

Both Coaches and Mentors are Essential to Educators

A common misconception is that if a school provides mentors for their new teachers, there is no need to provide coaching services. At first glance, it may seem like a mentoring program could take the place of coaching, but when you dig a little bit deeper,

it is clear that there are some differences in the type of support coaches and mentors provide.

Lori LaCivita, Ph.D. | Leadership Support, Emotional Intelligence,

Social Emotional Learning

Can EmotionaI Intelligence and Social-Emotional Learning in Schools Potentially Save Lives?

Students can learn to effectively confront and resolve emotional turmoil and aggression. Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) initiatives can assist students in the development of empathy, anger management, self-regulation, impulse control, and problem-solving.

Can EmotionaI Intelligence and Social-Emotional Learning in Schools Potentially Save Lives?

Lori LaCivita, Ph.D. | Leadership Support, Emotional Intelligence, Social Emotional Learning

Students can learn to effectively confront and resolve emotional turmoil and aggression. Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) initiatives can assist students in the development of empathy, anger management, self-regulation, impulse control, and problem-solving.

Well Established Virtual Coaching: Ready to Serve

Shannon Klaft, M.Ed | Leadership Support, Teacher Support,

Virtual Coaching, Mentoring

While many organizations are just starting to understand the benefits of running a virtual coaching platform, Education Leadership Services has been at it for years. Since 2016, founder Veronica Gerald had a vision of expanding her reach beyond face to face interactions. She knew that the virtual model would allow her to have a greater impact on education.

Shannon Klaft, M.Ed | Leadership Support, Teacher Support,

Virtual Coaching, Mentoring

Well Established Virtual Coaching: Ready to Serve

While many organizations are just starting to understand the benefits of running a virtual coaching platform, Education Leadership Services has been at it for years. Since 2016, founder Veronica Gerald had a vision of expanding her reach beyond face to face interactions. She knew that the virtual model would allow her to have a greater impact on education.

Shannon Klaft, M.Ed | Leadership, Professional Development,

Teacher Retention & Attrition

How to Hold on to Quality Staff Even in a Teacher Shortage

Instructional staff members that participate in high-quality professional development and receive feedback about their instructional practices are more likely to stay at their place of employment. It’s not an easy task for principals to go at it alone. Outsourcing support from Education Leadership Services supports the goals of school administrators while increasing teacher retention.

How to Hold on to Quality Staff Even in a Teacher Shortage

Shannon Klaft, M.Ed | Leadership, Professional Development, Teacher Retention & Attrition

Instructional staff members that participate in high-quality professional development and receive feedback about their instructional practices are more likely to stay at their place of employment. It’s not an easy task for principals to go at it alone. Outsourcing support from Education Leadership Services supports the goals of school administrators while increasing teacher retention.

Positive Impacts of a Virtual Coaching Partnership for Educators

Shannon Klaft, M.Ed | Leadership, Professional Development, Virtual Coaching

In my current role as a virtual coach for Education Leadership Services, I feel very comfortable and confident saying that our virtual coaching and professional development planning/executing services would have definitely passed my ‘three question test’! Here’s how . . .

Shannon Klaft, M.Ed | Leadership, Professional Development, Virtual Coaching

Positive Impacts of a Virtual Coaching Partnership for Educators

In my current role as a virtual coach for Education Leadership Services, I feel very comfortable and confident saying that our virtual coaching and professional development planning/executing services would have definitely passed my ‘three question test’! Here’s how . . .

Lori LaCivita, Ph.D. | Leadership, Emotional Intelligence,

Diversity Equity & Inclusion

Coaching School Leaders to Foster Diversity and Inclusion

Learning how to apply EI [emotional intelligence] elements will enable you to encourage and validate the experiences of others that you are responsible to lead.

Coaching School Leaders to Foster Diversity and Inclusion

Lori LaCivita, Ph.D. | Leadership, Emotional Intelligence,

Diversity Equity & Inclusion

Learning how to apply EI [emotional intelligence] elements will enable you to encourage and validate the experiences of others that you are responsible to lead.

Cultivating Wellness in Schools in the Aftermath of COVID-19

Lori LaCivita, Ph.D. | Leadership,

Emotional Intelligence, Self-Care

We know that happy and healthy employees can better work with student concerns and classroom behavior management, which also escalated significantly in the past year due to implications of COVID.

Lori LaCivita, Ph.D. | Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Self-Care

Cultivating Wellness

in Schools in the

Aftermath of COVID-19

We know that happy and healthy employees can better work with student concerns and classroom behavior management, which also escalated significantly in the past year due to implications of COVID.

Shannon Klaft, M.Ed | Leadership, Self-Care, Work-life Balance

Boundaries Preserve Energy for Administrators

Stretched too thin? Skipped lunch for the third time this week? Feeling like you are barely keeping all the balls in the air? "Survival mode" is something that educators know far too well. While some of it comes with the territory, setting healthy boundaries is our personal and professional responsibility.

Boundaries Preserve Energy for Administrators

Shannon Klaft, M.Ed | Leadership, Self-Care, Work-life Balance

Stretched too thin? Skipped lunch for the third time this week? Feeling like you are barely keeping all the balls in the air? "Survival mode" is something that educators know far too well. While some of it comes with the territory, setting healthy boundaries is our personal and professional responsibility.

Emotional Intelligence: Key to Addressing Teacher and Counselor Shortages

Lori LaCivita, Ph.D. | Leadership,

Emotional Intelligence, Self-Care

Those with high emotional intelligence (EI) are self-aware and can recognize their own emotions; they self-regulate and manage those emotions, motivate by having clear goals and a positive attitude, empathize and recognize the emotions of others, and have social skills that allow them to positively interact with others.

Lori LaCivita, Ph.D. | Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Self-Care

Emotional Intelligence: Key to Addressing Teacher and Counselor Shortages

Those with high emotional intelligence (EI) are self-aware and can recognize their own emotions; they self-regulate and manage those emotions, motivate by having clear goals and a positive attitude, empathize and recognize the emotions of others, and have social skills that allow them to positively interact with others.

Lori LaCivita, Ph.D. | Leadership, Professional Learning

Is Emotional Intelligence Development the Answer to Schools in Crisis?

What can we do to better support our school counselors and teachers, recognizing what a wonderful resource they can be to help us reach students that are struggling, to provide quality education, positive academic outcomes, and effective social and emotional learning?

Is Emotional Intelligence Development the Answer to Schools in Crisis?

Lori LaCivita, Ph.D. | Leadership, Professional Learning

What can we do to better support our school counselors and teachers, recognizing what a wonderful resource they can be to help us reach students that are struggling, to provide quality education, positive academic outcomes, and effective social and emotional learning?

5 Ways Administrators Can Use Virtual Coaching To Close The Teacher Vacancy Gap:

The A-LIST Approach

Vincent Du Beau, Ph.D. | Virtual Coaching, Leadership

Virtual coaches can assist district and building-level administrators with creating or re-establishing a culture of collaboration and value and mitigating teacher vacancies. Here are five ways virtual coaching can help achieve those goals (the “A-LIST” approach).

Vincent Du Beau, Ph.D. | Virtual Coaching, Leadership

5 Ways Administrators Can Use Virtual Coaching To Close The Teacher Vacancy Gap: The A-LIST Approach

Virtual coaches can assist district and building-level administrators with creating or re-establishing a culture of collaboration and value and mitigating teacher vacancies. Here are five ways virtual coaching can help achieve those goals (the “A-LIST” approach).

Joan M. Jackson, Ph.D } Work-life Balance, Self-Care

Self-Preservation is the First Law of Nature

I have understood that no one is going to take care of me better than me. … If I am not whole, then, my work can not be complete.

Self-Preservation is the First Law of Nature

Joan M. Jackson, Ph.D } Work-life Balance, Self-Care

I have understood that no one is going to take care of me better than me. … If I am not whole, then, my work can not be complete.

The “Tweeners”: Experienced Teachers in Leadership

Joan M. Jackson, Ph.D | Leadership, Teacher Leadership

School leadership needs to find a way to bring us back into the fold. We want to engage and generate new out-of-the-box thinking into tackling today’s challenges faced by our own families, fellow colleagues, and our students.

Joan M. Jackson, Ph.D | Leadership, Teacher Leadership

The “Tweeners”: Experienced Teachers in Leadership

School leadership needs to find a way to bring us back into the fold. We want to engage and generate new out-of-the-box thinking into tackling today’s challenges faced by our own families, fellow colleagues, and our students.

Joan M. Jackson, Ph.D | Professional Development Teachers

The Power of Professional Development

Professional development is critical in one’s growth as a practitioner in the field. New ideologies, methods of instruction, engaging resources, and critical friends groups benefit us in expanding our knowledge in the field.

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The Power of Professional Development

Joan M. Jackson, Ph.D | Professional Development Teachers

Professional development is critical in one’s growth as a practitioner in the field. New ideologies, methods of instruction, engaging resources, and critical friends groups benefit us in expanding our knowledge in the field.