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Personalized Courage Coaching
What do I mean by Courage “Coaching”? Coaching is offered in support of helping you focus attention on the space between the outer pressures and realities of leadership and your inner concerns, frustrations, and intuitive knowing. As a long time Facilitator for the Center for Courage and Renewal, Rona utilizes the principles and practices of Circle of Trust in a personalized clearness committee. The goal of a coaching session is to provide time and space for clarity to emerge with a strong foundation of empowered leadership that will help teams lead together. This paradigm of coaching is rooted in the belief that the coaching client has the wisdom and ability to find the solution to their own problem. The role of the coach is to create a safe, courageous, reflective space facilitating the client in becoming more aware of their own thoughts and feelings on a topic through deep listening, honest, open questions, and reflecting back through articulating and clarifying patterns and connections.
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1 on 1 session
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Series of 1 on 1 sessions
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Small group facilitated session(s)
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Courage to Teach Retreats for Educators
The Courage to Teach® Approach is an opportunity to explore your own sense of identity, purpose, and calling in the teaching life; to reweave the deep connection between what you do and who you are, and to renew your capacity to live and work from a place of wholeness and authenticity. Courage to Teach retreats center on personal exploration of the inner teacher: The Heart Of A Teacher Identity and Integrity in Teaching by Parker Palmer. Courage to Teach programs focus on developing a Circle of Trust and adult relational trust in learning communities. To learn more about how schools with high levels of adult relational trust are far more likely to help students raise achievement read about Anthony S. Bryk and Barbara Schneider | Trust in Schools: A Core Resource of Improvement (2002).
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Weekend retreats are generally held at a retreat center.
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Prices depend on retreat center prices
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1.5 hour Zoom introduction to a weekend
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1-day introduction experience
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Stand-alone weekend introduction retreat
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4-5 weekend retreat series (generally following the seasonal patterns of nature or themes)
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Retreat participants invited to Touchstone Connection Zoom sessions (1.5 hours) post-retreat for cohorts that want to stay in the community
Courage and Renewal Workshops for Schools
Courage in Schools is a professional development program designed to strengthen relational trust in the adult communities in schools. This program is based on the idea that strong adult relationships are essential for school improvement. These workshops utilize Leading Together™ protocols and exercises from a variety of fields, including mindfulness, social and emotional learning, music, and the arts. The program's professional development offerings include introductory workshops, district-level programs, coaching, and customized information sessions. Leading Together™ seeks to build capacity for relational trust by cultivating self-awareness, building connection and community, fostering teamwork, strengthening listening skills, addressing conflict constructively, and reconnecting educators with their passion for teaching. Rona Zollinger offers Leading Together™ as one of her professional development services for schools. She provides various options, including an introductory meeting for staff, pre-assessments of school culture, full-day professional development for leadership teams or the entire school, and year-long professional development integrating modules that support relational trust.
Leading Together Resources
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1-hour staff introduction meeting experiences
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Pre-assessments of school culture
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Full-day professional development with leadership teams
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Full-day professional development with all school
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Year-long series of professional development experiences integrating the 4 modules in ways that support where the adults are in relational trust
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Innovation
Project Management
Rona Zollinger can provide a variety of project management services for a variety of educational projects. Here is a list of her strengths:
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Program Development: She has extensive experience developing and implementing programs, including long-term strategic planning, and creating new initiatives.
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Curriculum Development: Rona's work as a teacher, program director, and consultant demonstrate her ability to create and implement curriculum.
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Teacher Training and Coaching: She has designed and facilitated teacher training and coaching programs, working with educators to support innovative practices in schools.
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Building Partnerships: Rona has experience building partnerships with diverse stakeholders, including industry partners and community colleges, which is essential for successful CTE initiatives.
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Securing Funding: Rona is skilled at writing grants to support program development and implementation
