What Coaching Offers

Coaching focuses on goal setting, outcome creation, and personal change management. Coaches help move students from the back seat into the driver’s seat, where they take hold of their lives, and become motivated learners with aspirations and goals.

What We’ve Seen Coaching Accomplish

  • Students that embrace coaching have a consistently higher GPA than both those that did not stay in coaching and those in a control group
  • Students set goals and are better prepared to rise above the ever-present distractions, chaos, and drama bombarding adolescent lives
  • Students develop essential life, school and work-readiness skills
  • Students feel supported to attend school, remain focused, and ready to learn
  • Students develop critical-thinking, decision-making and advocacy skills essential for achieving the goals they set for themselves
  • Students develop an understanding of who they are and how to relate effectively with others
  • Students graduate, motivated and prepared to move on to higher education.

The Difference Between Coaching and Mentoring

Both mentoring and coaching youth rely on the development of a trusting, safe, and respectful relationship.

A mentor serves as a positive role model and is a buddy sharing and engaging in activities and skills of interest to their mentee. It is a relationship where the mentor can guide youth from the mentor’s own experiences. A mentor can fill a void in a young person’s life, and provide wonderful stability and support.

Coaching is a transformational process engaging youth in a thought provoking and creative process of inquiry to help develop problem solving and critical thinking competencies. Coaches do not advise. The coaching partnership creates personal change and actionable outcomes that come from the self-awareness and choices developed by the youth. The emphasis on coaching is on action, becoming accountable to goals established by the youth, and creating a path forward.

The Role of a Coach

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  • Establish trust and understanding
  • Help students see they may have broader choices and opportunities
  • Help students understand their strengths
  • Help students rekindle hope and set goals
  • Help students take control of their lives and their futures
  • Help students develop perseverance by successfully facing challenges that may have once seemed impossible
  • Hold students accountable to their goals and their dreams
  • Help students develop a network of support
  • Be that trusted person in a student’s life to recognize and celebrate their success!
  • Help students practice and master 21st Century skills and develop the competencies that will serve them well in academics, life and the workplace