Archive for March 2017
How to Add Movement to Your Lessons
“If you feel thirsty, your students are probably dehydrated.” I learned this statement in college while training to become a backpacking leader for freshman orientation trips. We, as senior trip leaders, were tasked with keeping tabs on the needs of our groups by measuring our own energy levels and then imagining a (potentially) amplified version…
Read MoreBuilding an Emotionally Intelligent Team — an excerpt from The Art of Coaching Teams
Excerpted from The Art of Coaching Teams by Elena Aguilar. Copyright © 2016 by Elena Aguilar. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. All rights reserved. Building an emotionally intelligent team takes skill and knowledge on the facilitator’s part and lots of time. An advantage in launching a team is that you can do a lot…
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