2020 Shoreline Deep Dive Master Class TEC

The Effortless Coach

Deep Dive Master Class

Think of the dashboard as your home base as well as “library” for all digital files related to your Deep Dive Master Class. The dashboard will also house session audio files and notes. For an overview of this special Deep Dive Master class, and to meet your facilitators, go here.

FYI, this dashboard is not interactive, therefore, if you have questions, want to share a resource, or are looking for support, please use our FaceBook group or contact Kristie directly (Kristie@Kristiepf.com) or Jennifer directly (jena@jenalopez.com).

Here is the ZOOM link that we’ll use across all four session: https://zoom.us/j/3303101040
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2020 Schedule (all times are PT)

January 15th 2:45-4:00 pm
January 29th 2:45-4:00 pm
March 4th 2:45-4:00 pm
March 18th 2:45-4:00 pm

Sessions At-A-Glance

Session-by-Session Resources
Session 1 – Clarifying: It’s all about you

Optional Flipped Learning Activities
- Take the new Superpowers Self-Assessment [link]
  - Once you determine if you are primarily a Solutionary, Constructivist, Planner, or Unifier, read more in this detailed report.
  - Be ready to share your observations and learn strategies for putting your superpowers to work.
- Watch this video, which will help you prepare for the master class. In the video, we share:
  - Why we are talking about coaching
  - Different coaching configurations and models
  - Our approach, which is coaching with compassion from Appreciative Inquiry
  - And reframing our goal as coaches
- Begin to identify your goals for participating in the Deep Dive Master Class.
- Download and use this planning form as you see fit (before, during, and after each session)
After Session 1
- Session recording [video]
- Links shared during Session 1 and/or related to content/issues discussed
  - Resources on triggering the PEA and creating PEA experiences
    - Contemplative Tree
    - Stop, Breathe, and Think app [link]
    - Coaching with Compassion: Expanding Your View On Coaching For Sustainable Results (check out the downloadable coaching guide)
    - Triggering The Positive Emotional Attractor To Achieve A Change In Practice
  - Guest Podcast: EMPOWERED with Rosie Acosta
  - Want to see a change in practice? Do this!
  - Reducing stressors and extending the green zone for adult professionals
  - Superpower {R}evolution
- Action steps and additional resources
  - Amy and Eileen’s action step: Start our team meetings with success stories, hopefully triggering peoples PEA
  - Please email KPF or post to FB if you have other action steps for between session 1 and 2.
- Next Steps
  - Circle back to Session 1’s flipped learning resources
    - FYI, flipped learning directions and resources for Session 2 will be posted below after January 18th
  - Participate in FB as you have time – and if you aren’t on FB, know that over time content will be shared here.
    - For example, this summary about the PEA and the affirmations that were generated during Session 1 can be found on this FB post or in this private DRIVE document.
    - Please continue to edit and add affirmations.

Session 2 – Connecting: Making friends in shark infested waters

Optional Flipped Learning Activity
- Build upon what you know about children…and begin to think about how it applies to adults by reviewing this Emotion Coaching Guide from Seed & Sew
- Listen and/or read to all or parts of this conversation I had with Laura Fish about why even coaching can’t get to a change in practice and how to see the adult behind the behavior
- Complete the following activities:
  1. Record your daily emotions using the “Taking Emotional Inventory” three times a day across three days between January 21st and January 29th. Directions here.
  2. Share – edit – create – reflect upon your affirmation statements from Session 1.
  3. Work on and/or set action steps.
  4. Circle back to anything shared before, during, and after Session 1 (see above).
After Session 2 (facilitators to post)
- Session 2 recording [video]
- Links shared during Session 2
  - Free e-copy of “Emotional Intelligence” by Crystal Pirri and Mayra Porrata [pdf] Buy the book here
- Action steps and additional resources
  - Action steps
    - I think I’m going to try checking in and validate emotions with people with as few words as possible, more with body language. I’ll start in all sorts of situations so I get better at it when things are getting crazy behavior-wise. Let us know if you have tips for that!
    - I’m excited to get a staff “family tree” started in our staff lounge (Pam’s idea I believe!). We can share photos of what’s important to us – family, your favorite place/activity – to build community, positive feelings, etc.
  - Podcast 33: Are You Teaching Coping Mechanisms or Strategies? Why the Difference Matters to Children’s Emotional Well-Being
  - Brené Brown on Empathy [video]
  - Empathy Diamond: 5 facets of empathy (Dan Siegel)
    - Perspective taking: seeing the world through the eyes of another
    - Emotional resonance: Feeling the feelings of another
    - Cognitive empathy: Understanding, or intellectually getting, another’s overall experience
    - Compassionate empathy: Sensing suffering and wanting to reduce it
    - Empathetic joy: Experiencing delight with the happiness, achievements, and well-being of another

Session 3 – Communicating: Getting to the heart of what matters

Optional Flipped Learning Activities
- During Session 3, we’ll be talking about how we communicate and how through asking questions, we can reframe challenges and create an atmosphere of discovery. For those who are interested, here is an assortment of blogs on the “art of asking questions.” Feel free to pick one or read several.
After Session 3
- Session recording [video of last 20 minutes]
- Action steps
  - Holly: Use the questions also with gen ed teachers, paras when we are having trouble communicating/agreeing on something with a student
  - Leslie and Sarah: I like the reframing in general, it makes everything feel more positive! we can always use more positivity
  - Jennifer: Use a strength based approach versus deficit with team members, parents and mostly the children
  - Hillery: Try some of these questions at “safer” IEPs immediately

Session 4 – Co-Creating: Making plans that stick

Optional Flipped Learning Activities
- Directions [link to DRIVE]
- Matrix [link to DRIVE]
After Session 4 (facilitators to post)
- Session recording
- Links shared during Session 4
- Action steps and additional resources

Evaluation of your Deep Dive experience [link]