Conscious Discipline Coach
A Conscious Discipline Coach teaches Conscious Discipline to students of all ages and works with faculty to refine mindfulness practices and the structures and daily routines that support social-emotional learning. This is a sample job description from Excelon Associates that you can adapt as a template for your own hire.
What does a Conscious Discipline Coach do?
The Conscious Discipline Coach teaches Conscious Discipline classes to students of all ages and works with the faculty to improve and refine mindfulness practices and Conscious Discipline practices, structures, and daily routines in classrooms. The role embodies these practices and serves as a guide among faculty and staff.
It is a social-emotional learning and instructional coaching role within the education sector.
Conscious Discipline is a social-emotional learning and classroom management approach that integrates self-regulation, mindfulness, and relationship-building into daily routines and how educators respond to behavior. A coach embeds these practices school-wide and supports teachers in applying mindfulness within social-emotional learning.
What does the coach focus on?
Key responsibilities of a Conscious Discipline Coach
- Embody Conscious Discipline practices and serve as a guide and coach among faculty and staff.
- Teach Conscious Discipline classes to students of all ages and refine mindfulness practices and routines in classrooms.
- Provide coaching and technical instruction to peers, applying knowledge of mindfulness within social-emotional learning.
- Coordinate and collaborate with diverse groups of professionals across departments and organizations.
- Work independently and cooperatively with school administration, teachers, staff, and students.
- Attend required team meetings, communicate effectively, and execute projects on time.
What qualifications does the role require?
- Bachelor’s degree or higher, with a minimum of two years of successful classroom teaching experience.
- Experience coaching and giving technical instruction to peers, and experience with curriculum development and lesson planning.
- Mindfulness Education certification preferred.
- Ability to apply mindfulness in the area of social-emotional learning and to build respectful professional relationships and trust.
- Skilled in time management, with the ability to achieve multiple goals and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Why is the Conscious Discipline Coach role important?
Social-emotional learning shapes classroom climate and student wellbeing. A Conscious Discipline Coach builds the consistent practices and routines that help students self-regulate and help teachers respond to behavior constructively, which can change the feel of a whole school.
Because the role depends on changing adult practice as much as teaching students, the strongest coaches combine real classroom experience with the ability to influence peers. Conscious Discipline only works when it is consistent, and consistency comes from teachers who trust their coach.
A hiring note from Excelon
Conscious Discipline and SEL coaching roles succeed on credibility and consistency. Through our education practice, we look for coaches with genuine classroom teaching experience, comfort modeling mindfulness practices, and the relational skill to coach peers, since SEL initiatives stall when the coach cannot win the trust of the teachers expected to carry them out daily.
Conscious Discipline only works when it is consistent, and consistency comes from teachers who trust their coach.
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Conscious Discipline Coach: frequently asked questions
What does a Conscious Discipline Coach do?
A Conscious Discipline Coach teaches Conscious Discipline to students of all ages and works with faculty to refine mindfulness practices and Conscious Discipline structures and daily routines in classrooms.
What is Conscious Discipline?
Conscious Discipline is a social-emotional learning and classroom management approach that integrates self-regulation, mindfulness, and relationship-building into daily routines and how educators respond to behavior.
What qualifications does the role require?
This sample role requires a bachelor’s degree or higher, a minimum of two years of successful classroom teaching, experience coaching peers, and the ability to apply mindfulness to social-emotional learning. Mindfulness Education certification is preferred.
Who does the coach work with?
The coach works with students of all ages and serves as a guide among faculty and staff, coordinating across departments to embed Conscious Discipline and mindfulness practices school-wide.
Why is this role important?
Social-emotional learning shapes classroom climate and student wellbeing. A Conscious Discipline Coach builds the consistent practices and routines that help students self-regulate and help teachers respond to behavior constructively.
Hiring a Conscious Discipline Coach?
Excelon Associates recruits SEL coaches, instructional specialists, and K-12 educators for independent and private schools across the United States through our education recruitment practice. Retained executive search since 2007, headquartered in Asheville, NC, with offices in Boca Raton and Delray Beach, FL.
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