1. What does "being visible" mean to you?

2. How will you foster relationships by being visible in the first few weeks of school?

3. Why do you believe "trust" is essential in a coaching partnership?

Resources:

• Create a Welcome Letter or Video: Example - Click Here

• 5 Factors of Building Trust - Click Here

• Trust Builders and Trust Busters - Click Here

Read:

Read Move #1 (for free) on Corwin's Website: Click Here

1. What does "joining team meetings" mean to you?

2. How will you tap into existing team meetings to build relationships?

Resources:

• Listening to your own Listening - Click Here

• How am I as a Listener? Self Assessment - Click Here

• Listen Tour Questions - Click Here

• Language for Exploring a Resource/Curriculum - Click Here

1. How do you envision providing mentoring support to new teachers?

2. What is your best first step for supporting new teachers?

Resources:

• Principles of Adult Learning Theory: Click Here

• Survey for New Client - Click Here

• Beginning of Year Survey - Click Here (Pages 42 & 43)

• Get to Know Survey - Click Here

• Three Strategies for Helping New Teachers Develop Successful Lessons - Click Here

1. Why is it important to coach into building classroom community?

2. How will you support teachers to build a strong classroom community in the first few weeks of school?

Resources:

• How Can I Help Teachers Build Community in the Classroom - Click Here

• Coaching to Support Classroom Community Questions - Click Here

• Noticing & Naming Tool: Click Here

• Learner-Friendly Environment Checklist: Click Here

• Behaviors of School Leader and Coach in Providing Pressure and Support: Click Here
• Coach and Principal Agreement - Click Here
• Additional Guiding Questions in Establishing a Coach and Principal Agreement - Click Here & Click Here
• Norms for Sharing Our Coaching Work - Click Here
• Principal, Coach, Teacher Agreements - Click Here
• Agenda for a 30 Minute Principal and Coach Meeting - Click Here

1. As you think about this school year, what's your vision for your coaching schedule?

2. How will you be strategic in organizing your schedule to get the most out of coaching?

Resources:

• Sample Coaching Schedule #1 - Click Here

• Sample Coaching Schedule #2 - Click Here & Click Here

• 60/40 Rule of Thumb - Click Here

*Disclaimer: These sample schedules are from experienced coaches who have already established trusting relationships and built a culture for coaching at their schools. Overtime, aim to have your schedule reflect these samples.

• What Good Coaches Do: Partnership Approach & Principles: Click Here
• Who Goes First - Click Here
• Moving from an "Opt In" to an "All In" Coaching Model - Click Here

1. What message does your staff need to fully understand the coaching role?

2. How will you share your vision for coaching so that it will get the best response from your staff?

3. What opportunities can you create from the staff to discuss coaching and their questions about it?

4. How can you "layer" your marketing approach to help coaching remain at the forefront of everyone's mind?

Resources:

• Casting Your Coaching Vision: Click Here

• What Coaching Is and Is NOT: Click Here

• Marketing Coaching Artifacts: Sample 1, Sample 2, Sample 3

• Coaching Activity Board: Click Here (Page 48)

• Example Launching Coaching Slide Deck: Click Here

• Questions for Building a Shared Understanding of Coaching: Click Here
• Language for Setting Expectations for Participating in Coaching: Click Here
• Checklist for Getting Coaching Cycles Up and Running: Click Here

• What Makes a Strong Teacher Leader: Click Here
• Student-Centered Coaching at Norwood Elementary: Click Here
• Blog - Spotlight on Success Norwood Elementary: Click Here

1. How will you know when someone is ready for coaching?

2. What are some settings where you will listen for openings? 3. Are there any specific teachers or teams you would like to connect with so you can build bridges toward coaching?

4. How can you use student evidence or data to foster conversations that create openings?

Resources: 

• Self Assessing Your Behaviors at the Conversational Level:  Click Here

• If / Then Chart for Leveraging Openings: Click Here

• Scenarios for Asking Clarifying Questions: Click Here

• General Coaching Sentence Stems: Click Here

• Communication Profile: Click Here

• Steps for Enrolling Teachers in Coaching Cycles: Click Here
• Checklist for Creating a Coaching Cycle Schedule: Click Here
• Sample Coaching Cycle Interest Survey: Click Here
• Language for Partnering with a Teacher: Click Here

1. What structures have you experienced or used to organize coaching work?

2. Where are you seeing openings for co-planning lessons with teachers?

3. Who could you encourage to engage in a "mini" or "full" coaching cycle?

Resources:

• Leveraging Unit Planning into Coaching Cycles: Click Here

• Using Mini Cycles to Take Student Centered Coaching Deeper: Click Here

• Co-Planning Objectives: Click Here

• Protocol for Co-Planning Units: Click Here

• Language for Gaining Clarity in Co-Planning: Click Here

• Observation Planning Tool: Click Here

• Coaching Questions: Click Here

1. Why is it important to measure impact?

2. How will you work with the principal to create a plan for measuring your impact?

Resources: 

• Sample Coaching Trackers: Click Here (pages 5-8 & 21-24)

• Results Based Coaching Tool & Note Catcher: Click Here & Click Here

• Reflection on Coaching Survey: Click Here

• Status of the Faculty Spreadsheet: Click Here

• Student Centered Coaching Podcast: Click Here

• 8 Key Coaching Skills Checklist: Click Here

• Language for Getting Ready for Coaching in the Classroom: Click Here
• Partnership Agreements for a Coaching Cycle: Click Here
• Options for Coaching in the Classroom: Click Here