Coach Toolkit
What can you use right now?
Choose one complete tool, answer focused questions, and leave with a coaching move you can use today.
Use now
Four focused tools for the work in front of you.
Coaching Conversation Guide
Plan the language, evidence, stance, next move, and follow-up for a conversation that leads somewhere. Leave with: A purposeful opener, evidence-based focus, selected coaching stance, teacher-owned action, and follow-up plan.
Observation-to-Action Feedback Planner
Turn one piece of classroom evidence into a useful next instructional move. Leave with: One evidence statement, one coaching question, and one next instructional move.
Rehearsal Planning Tool
Prepare a short model, rehearsal, feedback, and classroom-transfer sequence. Leave with: A short model, rehearsal, feedback cue, and classroom-transfer plan.
Cognitive Load Coaching Check
Identify one adjustment that protects attention without lowering the learning target. Leave with: One cognitive-load adjustment and one evidence check.
Read deeper
Build the understanding behind the tools.
The Power of Rehearsal
Why practice before classroom implementation strengthens coaching.
How Memory Works
How working-memory limits should influence planning and coaching.
How Coaching Happens
Connect observation, dialogue, modeling, rehearsal, and evidence across Tips 16–20.
25 Tips for Instructional Coaches and Leaders 