Deborah Netolicky talks to Dr Trista Hollweck about mentoring, coaching, teacher agency, wellbeing, play, and community. Trista is a pracademic who integrates the worlds of research, policy, and practice. She is a former teacher, vice-principal, and school district consultant. She is Director of the ARC Education Program that brings together Ministers and professional leaders from seven countries to advance equitable, inclusive and humanitarian goals in education, and co-Principal Investigator of the Canadian Playful Schools Network funded by the LEGO Foundation in the University of Ottawa. Her research has examined teacher induction, mentoring and coaching programs and their systemic change implications at the school board level. She has also researched, published and consulted about restorative justice, professional learning and development, teacher evaluation, and educational change. Trista received her doctorate from the University of Ottawa. She is committed to supporting schools and systems to improve education for all students within and across educational systems globally.

Want to know more?

- ARC (Atlantic Rim Collaboratory): https://atrico.org/

- Canadian Playful Schools Network: https://www.playjouer.ca/

- Paper: ‘Defining and exploring pracademia: identity, community, and engagement’ https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JPCC-05-2021-0026/full/html

- Paper: ‘“I love this stuff!”: a Canadian case study of mentor–coach well-being’ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Trista-Hollweck/publication/335659645_I_love_this_stuff_a_Canadian_case_study_of_mentor-coach_well-being/links/5ebbc8a6458515626ca5b06f/I-love-this-stuff-a-Canadian-case-study-of-mentor-coach-well-being.pdf

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- Trista: @tristateach on Twitter.

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