Check out this blog post created from Todd’s Webinar on the benefits of school identity work: 5 Benefits of School Identity Work

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

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…

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Adult learning – don’t feed people the answer, help them grow. Self explore, self sustainable because of adult learning

Leadership oriented vs. management oriented. Story telling is so powerful. bring imagery and experience. Have been the most powerful teachers and classrooms

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

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

Getting at coaching a human not using black-and-white thinking. Important for administrators to see as a tool for working in their buildings

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

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

Discussion from Improvement retreat and other overall thoughts

From @mattie-robertson : Rituals and routines to build community; Spring Fling; establishment and oversight of service clubs

Example Mike mentioned in conversation at the 4/12 CC:

A Source of Strength and Community: How Identity Keeps Santiam Canyon United Even When Everything Else is Falling Apart

What needs have been met as you have read this book and engaged with the ideas it presents What feelings have been stimulated?

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What do you make of Irving Borwick’s (1969) claim that “people don’t resist change; they resist being changed”?

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When leaders are having a hard time coming up with new ideas, how might coaches help them out?

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What has been your best experience of building on strengths professionally? How did you feel when those strengths were called upon and came out? What did that experience lead to?

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Recall a time when you have offered empathy in your professional or personal realm. What did that look like, and where did that lead? What were the clues that the other person felt heard?

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How could you assist leaders to explore their stories in ways that generate new insights and innovations for moving forward? How can we make such explorations both fun and productive?

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How do you convey coaching presence in your everyday interactions with others, even when you are not coaching?

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What is the best learning experience you have ever had as an adult? What made that experience so wonderful? How has that affected the ways you work with others?

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