How does the coaching of my school happen?
School Transformation Lab is a training program for teachers. The headmaster and the involved teachers must be ready to change, to do some hard work on themselves.
We suggest starting with a first batch of 4 to 10 teachers over 3 months. To avoid discouragement, the teachers and their classes should be transformed in no longer than 3 months.
The coaching implies:
- visiting transformed classes / teachers from other schools,
- being coached in your class while you teach to your students,
- reading, experimenting in your class, making mistakes, learning, passing small exams.
We have coached many schools between 2017 and 2020. You can read the details, including stories of class coaching, in our impact report.
We currently decrease our coaching activities to focus on creating ready-to-use paper course material (Erasmus+ project 2020-2023) and the free digital platform to animate it (various projects 2021-2024).
How to apply?
By experience, starting such a fast and disruptive transformation with a school without the full support of its director and board is too risky. We have designed a 10 steps application process during which you prepare the fertile ground for mentalities.
- We know where we are going
- We objectified our current situation
- We have illustrated our current difficulties
- We wrote our fears and hopes
- We signed a contract of engagement
- We have identified the interested team members
- We have a financial plan
- We made a clear request to our management
- Our management is committed
- We organized a party to start the project
