What is LARC?
LARC, Learning Arts Coaching & Consulting, founded by Michelle Hughes, serves both individual learners in one-on-one coaching, as well as schools through professional development workshops and team/teacher coaching.
LARC Coaching
Studentship is the level of engagement, participation, persistence and creativity we bring to the learning process. While we are all learners, few of us enter the world naturally possessing the skills needed to manage complex schooling environments.
Who: Individuals aged ten through adulthood., nationally.
Where: Via Zoom, or in-person within a specified distance.
What: LARC coaching:
- Assesses and builds on strengths in learning and studentship through the practice of effective Habits of Mind
- Takes an active, student centered, goal oriented approach to growth in its work with students and their families.
LARC Professional Development…
Who: Provides workshops for schools and teaching teams, and coaching for individual teachers.
What: Program and teacher development focused on innovative, school-based, student-centered approaches.
Who is Michelle Hughes?
Michelle Hughes, school-leader, teacher, coach, writer, and parent, has more than thirty years of experience working in a variety of school settings with a diversity of learners.
As a public school teacher in inclusive fifth and sixth grade classrooms , Michelle developed the perspective that the overwhelming majority of students – whether they possess learning differences or not – need time, coaching, and instruction in strategies, skills, and habits that lead to effective studentship. As a team leader in public school, and as Division Director and Head of School in independent schools, she coached teachers in student centered practices that built self-efficacy and engagement. Out of these experiences, LARC was born.
Michelle Hughes: Career at a Glance
Education:
- M.Ed, Bank Street College of Education in Early Childhood, Elementary, and Museum Education
- B.S in Visual Arts, SUNY New Paltz.
Leading:
- 2001 – 2017 Education Director and Head of School, High Meadow School, Stone Ridge, NY
- 2017 – 2022: Director, Early Childhood , Lower & Middle Schools, Albany Academies, Albany, NY
Teaching:
- 1983-1988: Museum Educator
- 1988-2000: Fifth and sixth grade teacher, Red Hook Central Schools, NY
- 2001 – 2022: Early childhood, elementary, and Middle School, Humanities and Science teaching
Michelle is the recipient of several honors and awards including Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Administration.
For more information about Michelle go to: www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-hughes-64a37bb
Lark Symbolism
…the lark reflects the inward journey that’s often associated with self-discovery. This goes hand in hand with its singing, something that, for humans, is often considered a private activity and a deep reflection of inner self. The lark encourages us to explore our inner selves and sing out loud. .(Information from Ted Andrews’s Animal-Speak, Jessica Dawn Palmer’s Animal Wisdom, and Steven D. Farmer’s Power Animals