Create school leaders and culture champions at every level of the system
We help your staff model and integrate transformational leadership, social-emotional intelligence, and well-being.
You are the system to your students, staff, culture, and
community. As the adults and leaders in the building, you
have influence over how people treat each other and
therefore the culture and climate of the school.
Pre-pandemic, we faced a global mental health crisis. Now it is skyrocketing, especially among youth. Since 2020, the need for support is greater than ever.
AIM addresses that need by providing long-term training to the leaders affecting change in schools.
We help your leaders:
- Model and implement transformative SEL leadership
- Increase self-reflection and self-awareness
- Cultivate emotional agility, self-care, and well-being
- Manage stress, burnout, and mental health
- Improve challenging communication dynamics
- Increase retention, engagement, and agency
- Improve the effectiveness of existing SEL initiatives
- Support belonging, connection, and purpose
internal team and support
lasting change
We help your team model and implement social-emotional leadership practices within the school culture through an experiential approach including:
- Whole Person Coaching
- Mindfulness, Breathwork, and
Body Awareness - Guided Self-Reflection
- Communication Skill-Building
- Team Building Exercises
- Facilitated Conversations
- Improvisational Role Play
- Dialogue and Reflection Circles
AIM Offerings
that support the individuals, the teams, and the system.
It Starts with You
Build self awareness, move out of the fight, flight,
freeze response, and reconnect to purpose
and meaning.
Walk the Talk
Learn to communicate with care and effectiveness,
listen well, share openly, give and receive feedback,
and engage in healthy conflict.
Create a Ripple Effect
Bring your capacity to care and connect to the culture
you work in, and build a culture of healing, kindness,
and creativity within and beyond the school building.
We bring the power of executive coaching and data science together to assess your needs.
the outcome
Address the most important needs of your staff and organization, gain buy-in, and create a map for development and change.
Develop transformative leadership in the adults who care for and model SEL to students.
the outcome
Schools gain an internal team of people who are invested in becoming SEL, culture change, and well-being champions within their organization.
An immersive learning process and opportunity for learning and healing through an experience of connection and creativity with your staff.
the outcome
Renewal, Inspiration, and Connection. The staff gain a sense of connection, belonging, insight, healing, courage, confidence, a greater willingness to explore new ideas, a refreshed sense of meaning and purpose, and a commitment to using new skills.
Coaching
Pause the frantic action, reflect, reconnect to your sense of purpose, clarify vision, and strategize on reaching your goals. So often school leaders do not get the support they need. They are in the middle, at the top, isolated, and feel under fire.
the outcome
- Improve well-being and mental health in both your role as leaders and as an individual.
- Develop the capacity to sustain transformative over transactional leadership.
- Develop the capacity for self-care and healing from challenging experiences.
- Develop a map for transforming challenges into opportunities.
- Connect to your integrity, vision, and purpose.
- Gain proficiency in your capacity for self-awareness, mindset awareness, relational awareness, and systems awareness.
Learn to connect, communicate and collaborate in a way that promotes meaning, purpose, and innovation for your entire team. Skill-build, problem-solve, and improve interpersonal dynamics by addressing real-time challenges with a coaching process designed to promote collaboration, equal voice, and efficiency.
the outcome
Team assessment tools help each member understand each other better. Team members learn to say what they mean with clarity and kindness, offer effective feedback, and use productive conflict to broaden their thinking. The outcome is increased engagement, inclusion, collaboration, sense of purpose, and more innovation.
Support the sustainability of professional and leadership development by using tools that support practice and spread knowledge throughout the organization. The tangibles include workbooks, recorded guided practices, card sets, models, and tip books.
the outcome
Leaders gain a tangible way of practicing and sharing the learning in order to create buy-in and support for introducing ways of weaving well-being and conscious communication into everyday operations at work.
AIM Experiences
Principal and Head of Principal Leadership Organization
I was looking for an organization that could help us transform the school by empowering our teacher leaders. AIM does just that.
Principal and Head of Principal Leadership Organization
I was looking for the very best in SEL and did not want another ‘one-off.’ With AIM, we found facilitators who understand how to build lasting change within a community.
Superintendent of Schools
Even though the tangible results speak for themselves: reduced suspension rates by half, increased school attendance, increased graduation rates, etc, the value of this training has impacted the district culture far beyond quantifiable metrics.
Superintendent of Schools
There is no doubt that this work with us has been instrumental in our emotional growth, which will have an indelible and lifelong effect on student capacity to cope with a world of change and uncertainty.
Principal at a California School
AIM addresses the interpersonal challenges that dominate the day-to-day aspects of administrator jobs. Many other programs are student-focused, but the angle of interacting with adults in a manner where we maintain integrity is really powerful.
Superintendent of a School District
There is no question that many adults (including ourselves) have trauma and sometimes are triggered by it in ways that elicit impulsive, reactive responses. Our cabinet (superintendent and assistant superintendents), along with nearly all principals have been trained and coached by A.I.M. faculty. They have reported increased ability to build trust with each other and with faculty, especially those who are difficult to communicate with because of misdirected anger and negativity.
Principal of a School
What I have learned in this course would have been so useful when I was going through my credential or masters in educational leadership program.
Principal of a School
I found the use of the practices and content different than any other program. I feel like that helped me always look at the program from the perspective of improving my school (organization).
Superintendent of Schools
I personally believe that because A.I.M.’s training builds intrapersonal and interpersonal trust and authenticity, the result has been more efficiency for the organization through better communication between individuals, and consequently, between and within the organization systems.