Download Feedback Strategies for Coaches and Administrators, to deepen your understanding about . . .
Observation Models - Explores instructional rounds, “look-fors” variations, and the Classroom Walkthrough Models Matrix.
Creating a Common Teaching Vocabulary - Explores learning frameworks and indicators of exemplary practice.
Popular Feedback Models - Suggests the Tuning Protocol and other peer review and coaching models.
Using Language That Motivates - Explores when to switch from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person while giving feedback.
Commentary Modes - Explores warm, cool, and hard commentary.
How Teachers Can Assume Agency in the Feedback/Evaluation Process - Explores how to solicit feedback when the school culture does not support it or the coach is inexperienced.
Models for Using Video in the Feedback Process - Suggests “What? So What? Now What?”, the “Feedback Carousel”, and “The Best Foot Forward Project”.

Finding Joy in Challenging Times
It’s winter here in Minnesota, when we experience “real feel” temperatures of negative OMG-that’s-ridiculous degrees. The wind whips around, causing new snow drifts where there

