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Originally Posted by mastachyra
How do you manage mentor planning and attendance?
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With agility
For preseason I've been managing lessons/training and half of one project, and the other coaches and veteran kids have been managing all the other projects. The rookies are usually with with me doing training on Mon/Tues, and then split into groups with other coaches and veteran students for appropriation into projects and team culture on Wednesday. That leaves all the coaches and veteran kids free to focus on just one project on Wed/Fri. If anybody (kids or coaches) can't be there on any given day we adjust. Student attendance expectations are that every team member attends 80% of scheduled hours (works out to ~6.5 hours per week preseason) so they manage their own schedules within that guideline and post ahead of time when they know they have a conflict so that task plans can be adjusted accordingly.
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Originally Posted by mastachyra
Are you in charge of everything? It seems like a TON of time.
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More or less, but I have really great support from the other coaches and veteran kids. We think of leadership as being both a task burden (things have to get done), and separately an emotional burden of sorts (the weight of expectations). The task burden shifts around a bit based on what the critical path is at any given time, but the emotional burden is pretty well distributed (which really frees up a lot of time and mental bandwidth for tasks). For preseason training I put in my time willingly, but am confident that I don't have to. If I was getting burned out either somebody else (another coach or older kid) would pick up the slack for a few nights per week or we'd condense the Mon/Tues training meetings into Friday. The individual attention from small group nights is great but me being burnt out wouldn't be good for us at all.
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Originally Posted by mastachyra
Are you a teacher?
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Nope, but I might get certified so I can teach the curriculum as a class. That's one of the many financial/administrative/organizational matters that needs to be worked out prior to implementation as a class.
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Originally Posted by mastachyra
The way you described it, you are there after school almost everyday.
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Pretty much, the key is that I don't have to be though, so it's not so bad. Preventing burn out is important. Also, while I am almost always in the shop during the day (if I'm not here students can't be here), I'm not obligated to be anywhere in particular, which helps the situation.