Connect with Poonam
Resilience Consultants provide support to teachers and school staff, and work together to build a positive school climate for high-quality teaching and enriched student learning. As your Resilience Consultant, Poonam is available to you for confidential conversations that will not be used for evaluation of your job performance in any way.
Some of the ways in which our Resilience Consultants are helpful to teachers include:
Giving you emotional support as everyone adjusts to returning to their school community
Encouraging proven practices that support your personal and professional resilience
Sharing information and resources for increasing positive communication and strengthening connections at school
Brainstorming ways to respond to challenging dynamics at school
Facilitating social emotional learning lessons that focus on building student and classroom resilience skills
Observing students, as an extra set of eyes in the classroom, to help gather information on student strengths and needs for your own information, SST meetings, or parent conferences
Strategizing approaches to students, families, and colleagues with a focus towards improving behavior, relationships, and academic performance
Enhancing the social emotional practices of your classroom community with increased understanding of students’ social emotional needs
Engaging in strengths-based reflection, integration, and opportunity conversations with you, which is often the foundation for holding these conversations with your own students
You can contact Poonam by email at Poonam@AcknowledgeAlliance.org
Poonam Raj Singh (she/her) Ed. M, PCC is a peace and social educator serving Bay Area communities for the past 20 years. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) trained by the Coaches Training Institute and certified by the International Coaching Federation. Poonam worked with Partners In School Innovation for 9 years as Director of Leadership Coaching and School/District Partnership Director, where she partnered with teachers and school leaders to drive teacher collaboration and data-driven instruction. For the past decade, Poonam has worked in the space of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, specifically racial justice with a variety of different organizations in the Bay Area. She is trained in restorative justice and circle processes, drawing from indgienous wisdom, and trained by Oakland Unified School District and Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth. Poonam incorporates embodied healing practices of Playback Theatre & Theater of the Oppressed into her work, as well as mindfulness and yoga, being certified by the Art of Living Foundation in India. Poonam has a Masters in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and completed her undergraduate studies in Anthropology, with a focus on racial policy & immigrant identity politics. Poonam lives with her 3 children and her husband in Mountain View, CA- the ancestral and unceded land of the Muwekma & Ramyatush speaking Ohlone people.
Acknowledge Alliance is a mental health agency that promotes lifelong resilience in children and youth, and strengthens the caring capacity of the adults who influence their lives. Since 1994, Acknowledge Alliance (formerly the Cleo Eulau Center) has used the power of fostering resilience to help build positive connections between teachers and students to open the doors to learning and wellbeing. The foundation of Acknowledge Alliance started with the belief that when a child has a caring adult in their life who holds high expectations and believes in them, they can succeed despite adversities. Acknowledge Alliance serves K-8 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, integrating resilience into all levels of learning by coaching educators, counseling at-risk youth and teaching social emotional learning lessons for the whole classroom.