Life Coach
CurrentMy primary role as a Life Coach at the Goodwill Excel Center is to promote continued studentengagement, serve as a student advocate, support student learning, and provide resources to help alleviate barriers that may impede educational progress. I am responsible for a caseload that ranges between 65-100 students. As a Life Coach I build empowering relationships with each student, hold coaching sessions, set goals, and implement strength-based strategies to facilitate ways in which students can overcome barriers and continue progress towards their diploma and career pathway. As a Life Coach I also work closely with other departments (Onboarding, Alumni, Instructional, etc.) at the Goodwill Excel Center to ensure students make successful transitions and receive wraparound support from point of entry through exit into a meaningful post-secondary avenue. My essential duties as a Life Coach are as follows:1. Guide students toward academic success through managing and monitoring student information (i.e. credits, state testing, etc.), developing class schedule, and assisting students in planning for graduation.2. Coach students from a systemic, trauma-informed model that is strength-focused, student- driven, supportive and motivating, and that focuses on setting tangible, realistic and measurable goals.3. Implement attendance and retention strategies that are designed for individual student relevance that are hands-on, involve contextual learning, experiential education, and include proactive intervention, wraparound support-building, community referrals, and daily interactions with each student.4. Intervene proactively and in a positive manner to address student behavioral needs that arise through early-identification of potential risk factors, collaboration with staff, facilitation of restorative meetings, monitoring of behavioral planning, and encouragement of pro-social and career-ready student behavioral.
