Passion Coaching transforms students into intrinsically motivated learners
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Welcome to Passion Coaching!
Many students struggle with school and figuring out their futures because they only know how to be students. Passion Coaching transforms students into intrinsically motivated learners so they can live up to their potential in their classrooms, community, school, and life.
We offer the following services:
Life coaching for high schoolers to explore their interests and passions, develop new skills, explore entrepreneurial and prosocial goals, and learn new strategies for tracking patterns in their interests and passions throughout high school that reveal college and career aspirations.
Academic coaching for at-risk high schoolers, including students who are at risk of dropping out, lack academic motivation, struggle academically, or experience behavioral challenges.
Career coaching for college grads and people who want to find careers that align with their passions, talents, and values.
Passion Coaching class for high schoolers to explore their interests and passions and learn new strategies for connecting their interests and passions to their futures.
Career exploration class for high school or college students to explore social, life, college, and career aspirations that build on their interests and passions.
Teacher training for high school teachers to learn motivation strategies and techniques that boost trust, connection, and community in the classroom as well as academic motivation.
Featured Partner
Matt Darling, Dean Of Expeditions, Summit Prep Charter High School
"One particularly striking example comes from our freshman mentor, Mr. S. After just two months of working with Passion Coaching, he shared that their guidance has given him a toolkit to make his daily 60-minute mentor sessions with 20 freshmen both sustainable and rewarding. This is a remarkable shift from the burnout he had reported before. Similarly, his mentees have become more vocal about their aspirations. One student, who had previously disengaged from classes, chose to reengage with Algebra 1 after connecting the dots between their dream of starting a business and the math skills they needed to succeed."
Lucas Smith, 9th Grade Math Teacher & 9th Grade Mentor, Summit Prep Charter High School
"When my mentees met Paul and Mariamne, they were greeted with a personalized and compassionate structure that my mentees were not accustomed to and were challenged to think about their own motivations. After only four short days with Paul and Mariamne, I noticed an immediate change in all of my mentees demeanor; this made me invite Paul and Mariamne into my mentor class to continue working with my mentees."
"Passion Coaching equips students to live a healthy, fulfilling, purposeful life"
Featured Sevices
Passion Coaching Class
Passion Coaching Class
Up to 20 students can take our Passion Coaching class. We will come to your high school to cultivate the passions of a whole class during or after school.
Students will experience:
Engagement - Spend time meaningfully and purposefully engaged in the learning process.
Psychological Growth - Develop new layers of self-awareness, resilience, confidence and excitement around their interests and passions.
Capability Growth - Develop new skills and knowledge in their interest areas.
Connections & Community - Build community, collaborations, and new friendships with their peers.
If you like our Passion Coaching class, we can train your teachers how to continue cultivating student passions in the classroom!
"Passion Coaching allowed us to tailor programming"
Passion Coaching 1-on-1
Passion Coaching 1-on-1
Sign up your students for 1-on-1 coaching. We will come to your school to work 1-on-1 with your students.
1-on-1 coaching provides students with:
Extra social-emotional support.
Extra motivation to learn.
Extra support learning new skills and knowledge (with an academic focus to boost overall academic performance).
New source of resilience, confidence, and excitement for learning and school.
If you like our 1-on-1 service, we can train your teachers, tutors, or advisors how to continue cultivating student passions in the classroom!
We customize solutions for schools and nonprofits. Contact us about developing a custom coaching model for your organization!
About Us
Passion Coaching is a social impact organization started by Paul Thiebaut III and Mariamne Borden with the generous support of Sobrato Philanthropies. Our mission is for all students to live up to their potential in and out of the classroom by activating their intrinsic motivation to learn.
Together, we boast 25+ years experience supporting students in transforming into intrinsically motivated learners. We have founded 4 organizations (including Passion Coaching) that have built intrinsic motivation to learn in thousands of young people ages preschool-college.
Paul and Mariamne with budding intrinsically motivated learners doing a pop up nail salon at school!
Paul and Mariamne with budding intrinsically motivated learners doing a pop up nail salon at school!
Read our article:
10 Evidence-Based Reasons to Build Intrinsic Motivation in Students
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