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LEADERSHIP COACHING for SCHOOLS

Student Facing Programming

Educator Development Programming

Schools are full of students who don’t see themselves as leaders, and educators who don’t always know how to help them. Too often, leadership is reserved for the “selected few” instead of being cultivated in all students. At the same time, teachers are under immense pressure and often lack space to reflect on how their beliefs and practices shape who gets to lead, who gets seen, and who gets left behind.

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This work is a call to reimagine leadership as an everyday practice—not a title or a reward—and to intentionally build classrooms and schools where every student can lead.

EDUCATOR DEVELOPMENT

60 min Workshop
90 min Workshop
2-hour Workshop
Extended Professional Development

Lorraine Connell is not just a leadership expert—she’s a former educator who’s lived the daily tensions of managing a classroom while trying to support students as whole people. She created Peers Not Fears after realizing that too many students were left behind simply because no one ever told them they could lead.

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Lorraine blends her real-world teaching experience, coaching expertise, and a deeply reflective, story-based approach, as captured in her book A Teacher’s Story: How One Act of Leadership Inspired Many, to guide educators and school leaders through meaningful growth. She’s not here to lecture—she’s here to facilitate, to model, and to walk alongside participants as they explore new possibilities.

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She leads by doing, pushes without shaming, and creates safe, engaging spaces for real transformation.

Outcomes of our workshops

By the end of each workshop, participants will:

Practical strategies to support student voice, accountability, and confidence

Collaborate with peers

Reimagine how leadership shows up in classrooms

A toolkit for fostering authentic leadership in all students

Peer Impact Program

A New Way Forward for Advisory
Led by Students, Backed by Educators

Young Volunteers

Too many educators feel unequipped to create meaningful advisory programs. Despite the best intentions, advisory often becomes just another prep—a task with little clarity and even less connection. Resources help, but they’re not enough.

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What truly changes the game?

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Students.

 

The Peer Impact Program is a custom, school-based leadership initiative that transforms advisory by putting students at the center, not just as participants, but as co-creators. By involving students in planning and implementing advisory, we foster authentic relationships between peers and trusted adults. Advisory stops feeling like a box to check and starts becoming a place where your community grows.

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Teachers and administrators begin to notice something different: students who were once passive are now leading check-ins, guiding meaningful discussions, and initiating acts of connection. Advisory rooms become alive with collaboration and student ownership. The walls reflect growth through student-led displays, celebration boards, and shared values in action.

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Listen for authentic reflection, encouragement between students, and conversations that continue outside of advisory. There’s more curiosity. More care. More connection.

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Advisory feels like a bridge. Teachers begin to trust the process, and more importantly, trust their students and themselves. They feel the impact when a once-withdrawn student steps up to lead a group activity, or when students start showing up, not just physically, but emotionally.

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Your building feels safer. More inclusive.

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More human.

Outcomes for the Peer Impact Program

 

Empower students to lead and shape advisory, building confidence,

collaboration, and connection.

Equip teachers to trust the process and build stronger relationships

with students through shared leadership.

Transform your advisory into a student-centered, relationship-driven

space that strengthens school culture.

Stepping into Challenge:
Navigating the Zone of Growth (60 min Workshop)

Fun Presentation

Help students—and yourself—recognize and move through the zones of comfort, challenge, and panic. Learn strategies to push into the challenge zone while maintaining safety and support. You’ll also reflect on how your own story as an educator shapes your comfort zones.

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Support students through mistakes while still maintaining accountability

Shift from control-based models to connection-based models in student leadership

Outcomes of this workshop

Explore the Zones of Comfort framework

Understand how students (and adults) grow through challenge

Actionable strategies

Create environments that encourage growth.

Advisory With Impact (90 min Workshop)

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Advisory can be a leadership incubator—if we design it with intention. This session shares structures, conversation prompts, and leadership lessons that make advisory time powerful, personal, and practical.

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Support students through mistakes while still maintaining accountability

Shift from control-based models to connection-based models in student leadership

Create leadership opportunities for students beyond the “usual suspects”

Build school-wide systems that value diverse leadership styles and backgrounds

Outcomes of this workshop

Advisory periods become powerful spaces for student leadership development

Foster belonging, responsibility, and collaborative problem-solving

Ready-to-use activities, facilitation strategies

Make advisory time a meaningful driver of school culture and student growth.

Confidence Through Team Building
Two-Hour Professional Development

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This session offers hands-on, adaptable team-building activities that cultivate student voice, mutual trust, and self-confidence. Ideal for advisory, classroom culture, or student leadership groups.

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Create leadership opportunities for students beyond the “usual suspects”

Support students through mistakes while still maintaining accountability

Engage in personal reflection and growth as educators who lead by example

Build school-wide systems that value diverse leadership styles and backgrounds

Outcomes of this workshop

Build confidence

Engaging in purposeful team-building activities

Promote trust, communication, and reflection.

Strengthens individual leadership

Step into supportive roles to boost self-esteem and personal growth.

Practical strategies to bring positive interactions into their everyday lives.

Extended Professional Development for
Leadership Development

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Small group discussions

Designed to help teachers improve collaboration skills through discussions on trust, vulnerability, courage, and navigating difficult conversations and relationships.  We work in groups of 15 to discuss the challenges we face in our schools.  The focus is on problem-solving experiences faced in and out of the classroom.

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