Thank you for visiting my website. My name is Joy Rigberg, MEd, MA, and as an Educational Coach my sole intention and desire is to help children remember their strengths and potential.
I have dedicated my life to working with and helping children. For the past 13 years I worked as a bilingual endorsed, fluent Spanish speaking, elementary school teacher. The majority of my teaching career was spent as a first grade teacher in a predominantly Hispanic and low income school district in Phoenix, Arizona.
I know firsthand about the daily pressures teachers face surrounding student performance and improving test scores. As a result children are being overwhelmed by mountains of homework and imposing consequences at school and home. Their creativity, imagination, and desire to learn is being stifled.
As children today face these enormous pressures at school, home and with peers, they are losing their focus and motivation. This pressure is resulting in increased stress, anxiety, and depression. As a consequence, they are forgetting their natural inner strengths and resources, and are struggling to maintain their creative authentic expression.
As a born teacher and life long student I recognized I had arrived at the peak of my classroom teaching career and that the time for change had come. I knew I wanted to continue working with children, and that I needed a more innovative, imaginative, and experiential approach, hence, the creation of Educational Coaching.™
My philosophy in life and as an Educational Coach includes a combination of my deep interest, sensitivity, compassion, appreciation and awareness for educational and cultural diversity,
self-empowerment, and global consciousness.
My life long passion for travel, love of learning, and ongoing commitment to personal growth has taken me on many interesting adventures around the world. I have been fortunate enough to have lived and studied in countries such as: England, Spain, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Italy. Most recently I spent several weeks at a meditation resort in Pune, India where I practiced a daily variety of meditations, and had the opportunity to participate in several multiversity courses such as;
- Self-Hypnosis for Meditation
- Emotional Intelligence
- Celebrating the New Woman
- An Opening to the Heart
My purpose and mission is twofold: To help children build on their success and follow their dreams, and to help parents and caregivers raise their level of awareness so that learning and life can again be fun.
