My Coaches’ Couch

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.

Episodes

December 9, 2025 7 mins

This episode offers a simple coaching question that can amplify strengths, elevate agency, and create momentum for next steps.

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In this episode, we’ll explore how coaches can use focusing questions to support exploration and problem-solving, rather than asking funneling questions, which lead teachers to a coach’s pre-determined response.

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November 25, 2025 6 mins

This episode offers a simple coaching question that can connect you quickly to what matters, helping you begin right where the teacher is.

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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.

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November 18, 2025 23 mins

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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November 11, 2025 6 mins

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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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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October 28, 2025 5 mins

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.

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October 21, 2025 9 mins

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 di...

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October 14, 2025 5 mins

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.

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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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