Coaching the Whole Educator
This podcast helps instructional coaches, teacher leaders, and school leaders improve their educators’ effectiveness and resilience, especially the ones who need it most by focusing on the mindsets and motivations that are at the source of unproductive behaviors. Each week, we’ll cover quick tips, strategies and coaching mindsets so that you can be on top of your coaching game.
Podcasting since 2022 • 121 episodes
Coaching the Whole Educator
Latest Episodes
#116: Is Growth Mindset Actually Good?
*Watch the Youtube video of the episode.This is the very first episode Dr. Chris Jones (Executive Director of VASCD) and Becca are co-hosting informal...
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Episode 116
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#115: Increase Your Level of Joy on the Job with Working Genius
Do you feel drained and uninspired at work? Wish you and your team could tap into that feeling of energized accomplishment?This episode explores the Working Genius framework, a tool that reveals your natural strengths and what energizes ...
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32:50
#114: Why Feedback Can Feel Threatening (And What To Do About It)
Ever feel like your best-intentioned feedback falls flat? Or that some difficult conversations seem to escalate? It's time to rethink our approach. In this episode, we dig into the neuroscience of communication with the incredible Marcia Reynol...
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Episode 114
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#113: How Your Rewards System Can Sabotage Your Goals [Research Rundown]
Your school's rewards system could be causing more harm than good. Let's talk about why it's time to look at intrinsic and extrinsic motivators and tap into your teachers' inner drive. Daniel Pink's “Drive” revealed a truth about adult...
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#112: When Buy-In Isn’t Enough: The Teacher Engagement Continuum
Do you often grapple with the challenge of engaging teachers beyond mere compliance? Dr. Chris Jones, Executive Director of the Virginia ASCD, offers some powerful insight using the concept of a Continuum of Teacher Engagement. This framework h...
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Episode 112
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