Protocols - Coaching Conversation

Sample Focus Group Script

Best Foot Forward Toolkit, Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University
This resource features a customizable focus group script to learn more about the value of video observations from teachers. It can be used by both school leaders and researcher to gather more information around how teacher view their own professional learning and its intersection with video observation.

Post-Observation Conference Protocol

Minneapolis Public Schools
This resource can be used by observers or district heads as a protocol to outline the structure of the coaching process and the feedback given to teachers. The protocol includes the different steps central to the coaching process and identifies who is responsible for each element.

Collaborative Coaching Log

MQI Coaching, Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University
This resource provides a framework for thinking and structuring effective coaching conversations. Included are frameworks for both a introductory and progress conversations by which teachers and coaches will be able to target and address areas of growth.

Coaching Conversation Planning Guide

Best Foot Forward Toolkit, Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University
An outline of the structure and content for 60-minute coaching conversations between teachers and coaches, featuring a step-by-step framework for how a coach can prepare for a video-based coaching conversation and carry out a conversation aligned to a teacher’s learning goals.

The First Coaching Conversation: A Script for MQI Coaching

Best Foot Forward Toolkit, Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University
A document with a sample kick-off coaching script for an 45-min introductory meeting between a teacher and coach. The script is focused on relationship building to work as a team, clarifying the coaching cycle process and the coach’s role, and setting up goals and expectations for the work ahead.

Giving Effective Feedback Conversation Script

Uncommon Schools
A detailed coaching script that outlines a conversation around the teacher's goals, and includes potential framing text that a coach can use to encourage teachers to become more reflective around their own instruction.

Observation Cycle Record Checklist

Minneapolis Public Schools
A checklist for observers or instructional leads to ensure that the feedback given to teachers contains important components, and that tasks are set for the next observation or coaching cycle.