My Coaches’ Couch
My Coaches’ Couch supports instructional coaches with practical strategies, reflective insights, and real-world stories that help them build trust and cultivate growth.
My Coaches’ Couch supports instructional coaches with practical strategies, reflective insights, and real-world stories that help them build trust and cultivate growth.
Episodes

10 hours ago
33: Coach-the-Coach Call: Start Positive
10 hours ago
10 hours ago
This is a coach-the-coach call, sharing and considering an authentic call during which I coached Amber, a middle-school instructional coach. During this call, we focused on creating a plan for an upcoming team meeting that would start and stay positive without pushing challenges aside.
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.

Tuesday May 12, 2026
32: Coaching Temperature Check
Tuesday May 12, 2026
Tuesday May 12, 2026
This episode offers a simple coaching question that centers the teacher’s voice and creates a thoughtful pause before moving forward.
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.

Tuesday May 05, 2026
31: Consulted or Empowered: Who Gets “Some Input” in a Coaching Conversation?
Tuesday May 05, 2026
Tuesday May 05, 2026
This episode reveals a continuum of agency offered to teachers during coaching and how that continuum influences instructional improvement.
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.

Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
30: Practicing Praise: Coaches, Try This at Home
Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
Tuesday Apr 28, 2026
This episode offers a practice that strengthens relationships, increases motivation and reflection, and reduces stress.
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.

Tuesday Apr 21, 2026
29: Coach-the-Coach Call: Elevating Teacher Voice
Tuesday Apr 21, 2026
Tuesday Apr 21, 2026
This is a coach-the-coach call, sharing and considering an authentic call during which I coached Amber, a middle-school instructional coach. During this call, we focused on elevating teacher voice.
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.

Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
28: Quick Coaching Tip: What’s Working?
Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
Tuesday Apr 14, 2026
This episode offers a coaching question that is simple, flexible, and productive and gets a conversation off to a positive start.
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.

Tuesday Apr 07, 2026
27: Coaching by Walking Around
Tuesday Apr 07, 2026
Tuesday Apr 07, 2026
This episode offers a coaching practice that is quick, practical, and surprisingly powerful. It’s something many of us have probably done at times, but this episode will help you do it more intentionally.
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.

Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
26: Coaching Myth Buster: Being a Helper
Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
Tuesday Mar 31, 2026
Today’s episode busts a coaching myth and replaces it with a coaching move that builds relationships, launches coaching conversations, and makes our collaborative work more powerful.
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Get 15% off my book, Differentiated Mentoring & Coaching in Education, on the Teachers College Press website by using code FDNF25 at checkout.
Get more coaching tips at MyCoachesCouch.blogspot.com. To request a digital poster with a reminder of some powerful coaching questions, submit this form and you’ll receive A Dozen Questions for Coaching.






