Use this interview template from Power Up Blended Learning to lead you through the initial conversation between coach and teacher and create the foundation of respect and understanding that is essential to the longterm success of this partnership.
Try using this Word Cloud Activity from Power Up Blended Learning with small groups of teachers to explore their values, find commonalities, and start a conversation around teaching according to those values.
In this excerpt from The Teacher Credibility and Collective Efficacy Playbook, the authors discuss how to cultivate trust with your students and how to use that trust as the basis for a positive teacher-student relationship.
This excerpt from Leading Powerful Professional Learning guides the reader through navigating perceptions of risk, including why it matters, how to do it, key challenges, what to notice, and vignettes.