How did teachers, school leaders, and counselors mentally prepare for another unpredictable school year? We discuss our course Reclaiming Your Resilience, teacher burnout, stress management, and why this work is so critical today,. We share what the research tells us and what we learned from our amazing participants around the world. Plus, we will tell you about our founding story which began when I was only 13!
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Kristin Daniel comes to Circulus with over eighteen years of experience in education and professional development. She began her teaching career in special education in the Washington, D.C. area working with students needing learning and emotional support. She earned her doctorate at George Washington University with a focus on preparing teachers to succeed in high-need schools. During this work, she was drawn to research around teacher resilience and self-efficacy*. Her work at GW inspired her to focus on student-led, student supported instruction through teacher growth and well-being.
She led an instructional coaching program through a grant with the University of Kansas, in which she coached teachers in rural schools across the country. And she directed the learning support program at The Overlake School building teacher understanding of diverse learning. As the Associate Director of Professional Development at Global Online Academy, she helped launch GOA’s professional development program to design meaningful in-person and online learning experiences.
Kristin’s background allows her to bring a unique perspective to relationship-based and connected adult learning. She creates adult learning experiences that are personal and reflective, and that value critical learning and long-term growth. Kristin lives in Seattle, Washington, USA with her husband and their four-year-old son.
Ellen Mahoney is an alumna of international schools and has worked in education and youth development as a teacher, counselor, and director since 1997. Her primary expertise is in youth mentoring and third culture kid development. She works through a transitions-informed lens and is an active advocate for comprehensive child-safeguarding. In 2018, she was selected to be a
Council of International Schools (CIS) Affiliated Consultant.
Ellen was awarded a New York City Council Citation for her work during her time as the Director of Program Quality at iMentor where she
Increased the quality and quantity of support provided to 4800 participants and 16 school administrations by building and administering assessments, developing evidence-based strategies and creating internal efficiencies.
She is certified in mentoring program supervision by Fordham University’s School of Social Work and Big Brothers Big Sisters and has been repeatedly invited to the Summer Institute of Youth Mentoring at Portland State University, a highly selective program that unites the world’s best youth mentoring researchers with practitioners. She is a David Pollock Scholar and an Echoing Green Semifinalist.
She has served on the board of Families in Global Transitions (FIGT) and was a co-founding board member of Safe Passage Across Networks (SPAN), which facilitates the establishment of programs that address the challenges of mobility across networks of schools. Ellen’s work has been featured in publications like The Chronicle for Evidence-Based Mentoring; ECIS’s Global Insights, Ruth Van Reken and David Pollock’s
Third Culture Kids, Growing up Among Worlds, 3rd Edition
; and Jo Parfitt and Terry Anne Wilson’s
