Guest Brandi Peterson
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After reflecting on Copilot recording, What do you think about that applying the Evocative Coaching lens?
- Took tension away because it aligns with flexibility when it comes to Infelxion Approach…Works well with the shifts instead of goal setting
- Shifts and focus can be goals
- SMARTER experiments of field testing ideas instead of implementing plans. Helps with fear of failure. What did you learn from it.
- Instead of goal, set an aspiration. Goals go to certain areas to grow like therapy and/or personal training. What do you want to see after this experience and/or time together?
- Thinking about the language we used at the beginning of the time together…think about framing language.
- Centering the person we are coaching, not about the coach doing something right or wrong. Helps us be able to differentiate coaching for all the folks we are working with
- Triggers thinking about Street Data…can’t keep putting the old frameworks on the education now
- Gives more structure in some ways for what Portico does from a coaching perspective
- Nurture, serve, empathize, and lead – Costa’s core values. Learning where to push and pull
- Curious about learning how to lean into school being different, but leaning into the questions and the design thinking to find out. Does anyone know? Use the process to figure out solutions in the new environment
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Adult learning – don’t feed people the answer, help them grow. Self explore, self sustainable because of adult learning
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Leadership oriented vs. management oriented. Story telling is so powerful. bring imagery and experience. Have been the most powerful teachers and classrooms
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Book is right for our program because it is our values and culture as a program already. Not having to shift the culture but we are reinforcing the culture of Portico
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Reinforces the power of relationship and the power of story. They need to know each other and setting up systems and structures for getting to know each other because it is so important
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Getting at coaching a human not using black-and-white thinking. Important for administrators to see as a tool for working in their buildings
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Really gets at the core of what our coaches are already doing and prioritizing relationships and temperature checks. Align with what we are already seeing but gives us a common language as a group. Grounds us and give names
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People strengths and how can they grow. Hardest part is listening to what they are telling me but hard when the coach isn’t in the school. Trying to really get at what is keeping you up at night. Using the tools to get at the core of feelings
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From @mattie-robertson : Rituals and routines to build community; Spring Fling; establishment and oversight of service clubs
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Example Mike mentioned in conversation at the 4/12 CC: https://portico.inflexion.org/a-source-of-strength-and-community-how-identity-keeps-santiam-canyon-united-even-when-everything-else-is-falling-apart/
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Check out this blog post created from Todd’s Webinar on the benefits of school identity work: 5 Benefits of School Identity Work
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@damian.crowson@threerivers.k12.or.us gave me permission to tag him here in case anyone wants to contact him about how 4-day work weeks at Three Rivers in Oregon. You can reach out to him directly through the Community Directory
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Santiam Canyon’s story
Read more about how maxims are a source of strength and community: A Source of Strength and Community: How Identity Keeps Santiam Canyon United Even When Everything Else is Falling Apart
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Here is a link to the recording from today’s discussion: https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/play/9b_jODjJcEMBn9X8pTieem9_5lq0hi-Nts9J2H3k0FrUxCBUcpTfDVLLMFqt18wM7vVyf9VEhZOunuJc.6z1fc4SOOThrrLR5
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@Joann and @elise-kuykendall
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The example of the book festival really stood out to me in this chapter. On page 33, she asks the question, “…why not kick things off with a two-minute exercise in which audience members can meaningfully, if briefly, connect with one another?” She stresses the importance of members becoming aware of one another before jumping into discussions about the authors and books themselves.
I know many of our coaches this year have been taking time at the beginning of each Counterpart to do this and I’ve seen it very effectively create warm and authentic conversations between the leaders participating in these Counterparts. I think it makes sense to lean into these small practices at the beginning of Counterparts. It sets the tone for a Counterpart experience where leaders can bring their ideas and challenges knowing that their colleagues will listen and provide feedback. @Michelle is actually going to be having the Portico facilitators do this at the start of our weekly meetings so we can get in the habit and also start to generate a bank of ideas for these types of openers!
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I think that sharing an activity or resource at the right time with school leaders has been very effective over this last year. Most recently, in one of the Counterpart groups, two leaders were very excited about the Continuous Improvement survey that @Sara and Kathy included in the last agenda because they both had PD days coming up. In Counterpart, we were able to discuss the activity and ways to build off of it such as doing a gallery walk. I just heard from one of those leaders this morning and he is so excited to have that resource and is going to use it next week for his PD day.
The other piece that has been really powerful this year is finding common interests outside of the work…especially something the leaders are passionate about. For example, I now have an expert who can advise me the best whiskeys and where to find them in Oregon! 😉
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Thanks, Joanne! It’s been so fun getting to be in the Counterpart meetings with you this year and I have really appreciated how you connected what leaders talk about in Co-Pilot to the group conversations. I’ve seen that process quickly build relationships between the leaders as they hear about how they can use and adapt each other’s strategies for their own school communities.