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Emotional Intelligence and Why it Matters

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Emotional Intelligence and Why it Matters

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This infographic provides tips that relate to the four areas of Emotional Intelligence, along with quick reminders of what each area of about. This could be helpful when determining how to strengthen a personal weak area after taking the survey to find your own Emotional Intelligence ratings.

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This shows the aspects of emotional intelligence and how they relate to one another. This shows us that the four areas are not separate, but they work in conjunction with one another. In that way, when you strengthen one area you could also influence another!

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Figure 1 from RETHINKING THE CLAIMS OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN ORGANIZATIONS - Semantic Scholar

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Figure 1: Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence Model - "RETHINKING THE CLAIMS OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN ORGANIZATIONS"

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This awesome graphic sums up effective coaching conversations. I found myself zooming in and looking at all the details for quite a while! I particularly like the tips for body language. These reminders will be really helpful as I work with other teachers or even students during on-on-one conversations! This originated from a coaching session taught by Susan Cleyle and Angela Sordi, and Liisa Sorsa drew a graphic representation of the topics as they spoke- pretty neat! Be sure to enlarge when you click on the picture :)

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Blog Post- Tips for Effective Meetings with Teachers

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Blog Post- Tips for Effective Meetings with Teachers

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This blogger, Kristin Houser, is an instructional coach who wrote an awesome post about tips for effective meeting facilitation. She provides real examples of correspondence with teachers, and templates and steps to making the most of a planning period. This is such a helpful article to help instructional coaches stay on track when meeting with teachers!

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Pop quiz time. Ready?

What is the number one, most valuable resource for coaches and teachers?

a. Coffee
b. Time
c. Post It Notes
d. Technology

And the answer is (I'll bet you guessed it)... b!! TIME! (although maybe this could have been tied with a)

As you know, we really need every single minute of it to get done everything we need to get done in our busy days.

So there's nothing worse than when our time is wasted.

And you know what one of the biggest culprits can be? Meaningless Meetings.

Sure, meetings (planning meetings, PD meetings, business related meetings) are an essential part of working in a school. But if run poorly, they can be a huge waste of time.

But good news! As coaches there's something we can do about this.

We facilitate lots of meetings, so let's make sure the ones we're responsible for leading are meaning-FULL, not meaningless.

I thought it might be helpful if I walked you through a case study of what it can look like to put this plan into action.

OK. So earlier this week I facilitated a curriculum planning meeting with our fourth grade team. Here's how I went about making sure I had all my ducks in a row and the meeting was a meaningful use of this team's time.

To help me identify an outcome for our time together that felt supportive to the team, I sent out an email the week prior to meeting with them. After I received their response, I was able to create a purposeful agenda aligned to their needs.

I always try to think about what resources (books, videos, examples, planning templates, etc.) would support teachers in the work they're setting out to accomplish. In this particular case, I thought it would be helpful to give them a planning template they could use to help them with the logistics that go into planning a Celebration of Learning.

In curriculum planning meetings, there's frequently a good amount of collaborative work and thinking going on. Google Docs/Drive makes it super easy for me to capture this work and share it with the team afterwards.

I have lots of thoughts and ideas I'm excited to share with teachers in planning meetings. But I zip it up, and listen first. Then I can guide the discussion as needed with follow-up questions or suggestions.

As the facilitator, it's my role to track time and keep the team's work on track. Since we only have 45 minutes for these planning meetings, this is super important. Including the estimated amount of time for each part of the agenda helps with this.

Don't forget to leave 5 minutes at the end of your time to review what was covered and identify next steps. AND set a time/day for when you'll follow-up.

And BOOM! You've got yourself a meaning-FULL meeting.

If you have an upcoming meeting to facilitate, hopefully you can use these tips as a roadmap to get you started and check your work.
Have a question, or maybe a tip I didn't include? Share it in the comments below.
Enjoy your weekend and I'll talk to you soon!

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6 Tips for Effective Meeting Facilitation

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Pop quiz time. Ready? a. Coffee b. Time c. Post It Notes d. Technology And the answer is (I'll bet you guessed it)... b!! TIME! (although maybe this could have been tied with a) As you know, we really need every single minute of it to get done everything we need to get done in our busy days.

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This chart compares mindsets in a continuum, rather than simply comparing a "growth vs fixed" mindset. It is created by James Anderson, a mindset coach, but based on Carol Dweck's work. It was interesting to me because it shows how someone can grow and change over time, instead of changing their mindset overnight. Instructional coaches can use this as they gauge where teachers may fall on the spectrum, so that they can ask purposeful questions and try to help them grow toward a more fixed mindset.