My Coaches’ Couch

7: Coaching as Inquiry

This episode includes a conversation with Michael Manderino as he talks about taking an inquiry stance in coaching, especially when working with teachers from disciplines other than your own.
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Michael Manderino is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at Northern Illinois University. Michael studies the intersections of digital literacies for disciplinary learning. He is an incoming co-editor of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. Professor Manderino is incoming vice-president of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers. Michael has published in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Literacy Research & Instruction, and other journals. Among other recognitions, Michael received the Literati Award from Emerald Publishing, the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers, and the Dean's Merit Award at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Connect with Michael on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/michael-manderino-65428085) or by email at mmanderino@niu.edu.

6: Prompting Positive Reflection

This episode offers a magic question that balances affirmation and analysis, helping teachers anchor reflection in strengths and opening the door for refinement and deep learning.
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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.

5: Using Third-Point Communication in Tricky Conversations

Wondering how to prepare for a tricky instructional coaching conversation?
Instead of telling the teacher what you saw or making suggestions for strategies they should use, shift attention to a third point that does the hard talking for you or with you. 
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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.

4: Coaching Celebrations

This episode offers a magic question for coaching that sparks joy and spotlights teachers’ successes.
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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.

3: Responsive Recommending

This episode describes how to make sure that any coaching recommendations you make are responsive to teachers’ needs.
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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.

2: Magic Coaching Question

This episode describes an opening question that gets coaching conversations productively rolling along. 
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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.
 

1: Coaching Pumpkin Patch teachers with the GIR Model

In honor of the season, this episode gives ideas for how to coach Pumpkin Patch teachers – those teachers who are desperately hanging on to old ways of doing things.
 
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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.