Coach Tools

Coaches can use this tool to plan and track teacher progress across multiple coaching cycles, including goal-setting, planning conversations, observation selective scripting, debriefing conversations, and analyzing student learning.

Coaches can use this tool to record teacher/student words and actions throughout a lesson observation. Automatic time stamps support the use of specfic evidence during post-observation debriefs.

Coaches can use this tool to support teachers in the analysis of student work. Steps include getting clear about what mastery looks like, sorting student work by levels of mastery, and planning differentiated next steps to meet students' needs.

Coaches can use this tool to plan and conduct initial "get-to-know-you" conversations with the teachers they will be supporting, a crucial step for developing the relationships that allow coaching to succeed.

Teacher teams can use this protocol to give each other feedback on classroom issues they're facing. This tool is most useful for brainstorming quick solutions to individual teachers' difficulties.

This document outlines the steps of the consultancy protocol that is a key component of the cycle of learning for teacher teams. The protocol is most useful for analyzing a complex problem related to the work of the entire team. 

Coaches can use this tool to guide a teacher through the process of learning more about a student's academic, social, and emotional strengths and areas for growth.