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ERIC Number: EJ1333853
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Feb
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-2476-194X
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Building Relationships, One Practice at a Time
Zoller, Kendall; Lahera, Antonia Issa
Learning Professional, v43 n1 p42-43, 45-46 Feb 2022
As leadership coaches, Kendall Zoller and Antonia Issa Lahera has worked with diverse groups of students. As they have pursued a path of equity for all students, teachers, families, and communities, they have developed a framework to develop, nurture, and grow collaborative relationships. They call it HeartSpace (Lahera & Zoller, 2021). HeartSpace is a structured set of practices designed to maximize interaction and community to bring meaning, connection, growth, and fulfillment as groups work together. They created these practices using research on equity, relationships, community building, group development, and participatory action (including Freire, 2000; Duncan-Andrade & Morell, 2008; Heifetz & Linsky, 2009; Banks, 2006, 2015; Block, 2018; Bolman & Deal, 2017). As a result, the practices honor social justice, equity, and individual culture while fostering agency and leadership, and providing a space for people to grow together. In this article, the authors provide examples from their work in schools illustrate how leaders and staff can use the practices. In each case, they worked with leaders to identify HeartSpace practices that could help them tackle pressing issues in ways that deepened relationships and established a stronger foundation for moving forward.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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