Certified Empowerment Coach
Trainer • Team Player
Writer • Editor
Coach Bev has a knack for asking the question that will make her clients think deeply and reach further to achieve their goals and dreams.
Her professional and life experiences have given her a sense of wisdom and understanding that make her the ideal coach for adults and teens in recovery, people in career or life transition, anyone looking to explore their life purpose, and teens or adults striving to be leaders of their own lives.
She also has experience coaching parents advocating for their children, teachers who want to improve their classroom practice or gain balance in their lives, and school leaders looking to increase their effectiveness and reduce their stress.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
- Empathic and reflective listener with the ability to effectively ask empowering questions.
- Able to help others find their own inner compass in situations of personal or professional stress
- Dynamic trainer with the ability to reach and teach learners of all ages effectively.
- Catalyst for innovative and creative educational programs and services, often serving as both administrator and trainer for implementation.
- Excellent communication skills -Former Editor-in-Chief of international educational journal.
- Published author including chapter in recent National Middle School Association book Voices of Teens: Writers Matter.
- Excellent hiring, training, supervisory, and budget management skills.
- Able to assess staff and provide guidance for improvement
- 12 years of teaching at the elementary, middle and high school levels
- 12 years as an administrator on the pre-school, elementary, middle and high school levels
- Skilled at recruiting, networking, and sales.
- Quick study. Constantly reading to learn and grow.
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
Small Group Facilitator at recent True Purpose training workshop held in Israel
Provide individual coaching for adults and teens across the US
Author of two e-books, one in process, as well as several published chapters and magazine articles
Designed collegial team-based faculty structures
Orchestrated progressive and individualized professional development goals and worked closely with faculty to monitor the achievement of their goals.
Received highest recognition as Exemplary Teacher (Fairfax County Public Schools, VA)
Provided workshops and ongoing training for administrators and teachers in innovative leadership and teaching methodologies
Developed and coordinated the Hillel Brain Compatible College (HBCC), a teacher development program designed to bring brain research into classroom practice.
Designed and implemented successful learning center for divergent learners
Advocated effectively for students who learn differently throughout career
Founded and developed flourishing middle school program
Has hired, trained, and supervised professionals, para-professionals, and volunteers throughout career
SEMINARS , COURSES, WORKSHOPS
Designed and/or Conducted:
The Value of Coaching in a School Community
Communication Skills for a Successful Principalship
Coaching for Teens in Recovery
Classroom Management 101
Supervision and Evaluation – A New Approach
Group Walk-Through Observation Training
Spiritual Development through the Three Relationships
Visioning Workshop
How to Develop a Comprehensive Professional Development Plan for Your School
How to Build a Professional Learning Community
Brain Compatible Learning Training
Tuning Protocol Training
Developing a 5-year Professional Development Plan for Your School
Middle School Team Training
Positive Classroom Discipline/Tools for Teaching (facilitator of video course)
Multicultural Parent Education Training
Head Start Home Visitor Core Training
Participant:
Recovery Support Specialist Certification Training - Broward County Training Institute
Collaborative Operating System Course - Tim Kelley and Rachel Connerly
True Purpose Coach Certification - Tim Kelley and Jeffrey Van Dyk
Purposeful Coach Training - Tim Kelley and Jeffrey Van Dyk
ADD Coach Academy Training for Certified Coaches - David Gewirc
LEAP Training for Coaching Adolescents – YPCoach, Randy Nathan
Breakthrough Coach: Work Less, Play More and Get More Done – Malakai Pancoast
How to Run A Successful Upper School – ISM
Instructional Mentoring 2 – JNTP /New Teacher Center
Action Research as a Tool to Develop A Differentiated Classroom – Training of Trainers
Instructional Mentoring 1 – JNTP /New Teachers Center
Learning and the Brain Conference – Harvard
Differentiated Instruction Seminar – Yeshiva University
Understanding by Design – ASCD
PassageWays Social Emotional Learning Foundations Course – Boulder, CO
National Assistant Principals Leadership Academy – Council for Educational Change
Principals’ Seminar on Teaching and Learning – Harvard
Social Emotional Learning Seminar – Maurice Elias
Schools Attuned – Etta Israel Center – Dr. Mel Levine’s ‘All Kinds of Minds’
Series of Principals Retreats–Harvard, Avi Chai, Lookstein Center
Skillful Teacher Training – FCPS
Positive Classroom Discipline and Instruction – Fred Jones
Middle School Team Training – FCPS
Head Start Volunteer Administration Training
Head Start Home Visitor Training
Beverly A. Buncher
The Empowerment Coach
786 859-4050
Call today for an introductory coaching session today!
