Our expert team of leaders and coaches are people-focused and operate from a place of transparency, encouragement, and inspiration.
In our effort to make a difference in education and the community at large, we lead both selves and teams in support of courage, connection, and inclusion.
Our expert team of leaders and coaches are people-focused and operate from a place of transparency, encouragement, and inspiration.
In our effort to make a difference in education and the community at large, we lead both selves and teams in support of courage, connection, and inclusion.
We support each other and our partners to do and say the important or hard thing, even when it would be easier not to. We do not choose the comfortable way if it means stepping away from our commitment to ensuring that educators, students, and families have a chance to connect, heal, and thrive.
We seek to engage others with an open heart, an attentive ear, and without armor so that all can feel seen, heard, and valued. True human connection leaves judgment at the door.
We strive to build trusting and welcoming school communities. We seek representation of diverse perspectives, thinking, lived experiences, and cultural upbringings. It is a critical foundation of building brave, safe spaces.
We support each other and our partners to do and say the important or hard thing, even when it would be easier not to. We do not choose the comfortable way if it means stepping away from our commitment to ensuring that educators, students, and families have a chance to connect, heal, and thrive.
We seek to engage others with an open heart, an attentive ear, and without armor so that all can feel seen, heard, and valued. True human connection leaves judgment at the door.
We strive to build trusting and welcoming school communities. We seek representation of diverse perspectives, thinking, lived experiences, and cultural upbringings. It is a critical foundation of building brave, safe spaces.
Research indicates that the collective trauma, grief, anxiety, and overwhelm from the past few years is impacting the way we show up for ourselves and for others. Neurobiologically, when our emotions are out of balance and unattended to, our attention span, creativity, decision making, motivation, as well as our physical health is affected. This is also true for students. Now more than ever our students need adults who are brave enough to talk about the elephant in the room. We are not always doing okay.
Students are looking to us as models for how to handle our new normal, post-pandemic. They are desperate for a space to process the impact of the events of the past few years, learn to reconnect with each other, and re-engage with the world around them. We have important work to do so our next generation can thrive outside of our school walls. Won’t you join bettertogether3 in this critical work?
“We believe that the greatest casualty of trauma is the emotional, and sometimes physical, safety required to be vulnerable, and that, in addition to violence and neglect, poverty, racism, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, and other systemic forms of oppression and/or bias are trauma.”
Dr. Brené Brown
Brené Brown Education and Research Group Belonging Statement
...that all people are doing the best they can. This allows the most gracious and kind approach to our coaching and interactions.
...in being truth-tellers, using clear and kind communication.
...that grace, gratitude, and a growth mindset can change the world we live in.
...that people of every age can develop courage as their super power.
Pam is one of 100 world-wide Dare to Lead™ Facilitators trained and mentored by Dr. Brené Brown with expertise in serving educational systems and their communities. Pam is also certified as a Social and Emotional Intelligence Coach by the Institute for Social + Emotional Intelligence (ISEI)®. She has a MA in Curriculum and Development from the University of Minnesota, as well as an M.ED in Educational Leadership from Hamline University. Pam has a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace Certification from the University of Florida and is certified by Dr. Timothy Clark of LeaderFactor in 4 Stages of Psychological Safety in the Workplace.
