Approach to the Education System By Martin Richards Educator, Coach, Author The second seven-year report In which a good idea becomes part of a non-profit organisation.
I wrote this book to offer a huge thank you to the hundreds of coaches and hundreds of educators that I have worked with in the past decade or so. Together we are bringing greater awareness of the benefits of coaching to educators, their staff and their students. Writing this text in 2021, I realise that we have been on a journey of at least fourteen years; and we are not ‘there’ yet. For reasons of confidentiality, I do not include the names of educators or coaches. It’s been a Long Road It's been a long road Getting from there to here It's been a long time But my time is finally near And I can feel the change in the wind right now Nothing's in my way And they're not gonna hold me down no more No, they're not gonna hold me down 'Cause I've got faith of the heart I'm going where my heart will take me I've got faith to believe I can do anything I've got strength of the soul And no one's gonna bend or break me I can reach any star I've got faith I've got faith, faith of the heart It's been a long night Trying to find my way Been through the darkness Now I finally have my day And I will see my dream come alive at last I will touch the sky And they're not gonna hold me down no more No, they're not gonna change my mind 'Cause I've got faith of the heart… Intro to “Star Trek: Enterprise”, a science fiction TV series. Sung by: Russell Watson. Written by: Diane Eve Warren
Artist: Rod Stewart, Album: Patch Adams. Released: 1998 "Faith of the Heart" is a song written by Diane Warren and performed by Rod Stewart for the soundtrack to the 1998 film Patch Adams. Patch Adams is a 1998 American biographical comedy-drama film directed by Tom Shadyac and starring Robin Williams, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Daniel London, and Peter Coyote. Set in the late 1960s/early 1970s, it is based on the life story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams and the book Gesundheit: Good Health Is a Laughing Matter by Dr. Adams and Maureen Mylander. The Connection? When I heard the title song to my favourite TV series, I heard the heartbeat of my work. The lyrics tied in beautifully with the recent Listening from the Heart course. “Good Education is a Listening Matter”, Martin Richards
Dedication......................................................................................................... 2 Contents............................................................................................................ 4 The First Seven Years.....................................................................................6 Second Seven Years........................................................................................ 7 ICF Conference November 2014................................................................................................ 9 The Skolcoacherna Story.............................................................................13 Coaching Educators - Lessons learned ...................................................14 Useful Tools.................................................................................................... 16 The Vision Clarified Slowly..........................................................................18 Other gradual transformations.................................................................20 Website Messaging...........................................................................20 Coach Offering...................................................................................20 Expectations on Coaches.................................................................21 Changes to My Role................................................................................22 60th birthday in 2018...................................................................................25 Let’s change everything...............................................................................26 2019 Educator signups.................................................................................28 2019 Coach signups......................................................................................30 50 Coaching Partnerships in 2019.............................................................32
2020 Pivotal Moments.................................................................................35 2020 Educator signups................................................................................37 2020 Coach signups.....................................................................................39 100 Coaching Partnerships in 2020..........................................................40 Testimonials 2020...................................................................................40 Lessons for 2021............................................................................................ 43 Lessons from Golden Links...................................................................43 Lessons from GETI..................................................................................43 Lessons from IBMEE...............................................................................44 Goals for 2021................................................................................................. 45
The first seven years’ work is outlined in the book, “Bringing a Coaching Approach to the Education System”. It can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/author/coach-martin-richards The story starts with CTI, the Coaches Training Institute. 2006 I went on the CTI CoActive Coaching course. 2007 I was knocking on the door of colleges in Malmö, in the Southern part of Sweden, offering to coach teachers. 2008 I returned to the West part of Sweden and continued working with lectures at school through Transfer, an independent agency. I gave over a hundred talks at colleges between 2008 and 2014 to teenagers. 2013 Workshops for teachers based on GROW and the chapters in the “A Coaching Approach to Education” book. Also the year when I had an alliance with another agency, School Coaches, who had a contract with the national government for coaching in schools.
In some ways, by 2018, I had reached my life goal of coaching educators and was ready to retire aged 60. But there was life in this old dog yet. This book describes the work as it continued for seven more years, and hints at what the next ten or fifteen years might bring. 2014 “Bringing a Coaching Approach to Education” C4E named at ICF Conference 2015 - 2018 Skolcoacherna, 3 years with 10 schools 2019 Start of C4E pro bono coaching 2020 Pivotal Moments 2021 Where next?
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