Coaching the Whole Teacher: Becca Silver

Becca Silver is the founder and CEO of The Whole Educator. She is a highly energetic and knowledgeable trainer who approaches leadership development with transformational coaching skills and strategies. Becca is a former educator, instructional coach, life coach, and executive coach. Her training programs and customized one-on-one coaching work focuses on fostering teacher buy-in and bridging knowledge gaps between leadership and staff. She believes that, when coaching teachers, adult mindsets and motivations matter.

 

The Teachers S.T.A.Y. Program is a group coaching, cohort-based 6 module program for school coaches. It systematically builds coaches' skills to understand and impact teachers' underlying motivations and mindsets that impact their behavior, buy-in, trust and resilience. This immersive program does not "add another thing onto the plate" of coaches. To inquire about a school or district-based cohort, message becca@thewholeeducator.com.

 

Episode Notes:

-Educators and coaches are whole human beings. We want to coach and lead them as whole human beings.

-The Whole Educator.com

-Teachers as diverse learners

-Top tips for supporting new educators: identify the speed of approaching growth and change, spend time listening to their concerns and build trust, and look for limiting beliefs or mindsets.

-Treat others the way they want to be treated.

-Use active listening or reflective listening, reflect back on what they are saying.

-Identify why they teach, what motivates them, and measure against that each day.

-Embrace your why

-Sorting needs: content knowledge, skills, or mindset issues.

-Utilize the mindset that people are diverse and complex, build trust authentically, treat people how they want to be treated.

-Assess what they need so you can individualize professional development.

-Mindsets and Motivations Matter

-Hear the limiting beliefs

Connect with Becca:

becca@thewholeeducator.com

Twitter: @BeccaSilver_edu