The girl showed up one early-spring day, riding in the mail coach. It was late afternoon, and Bill Remmer was busy planting rose seedlings.

I have enjoyed being part of this program because it has allowed me to become a better teacher and focus on something that will benefit me and my students.” Looks like she’s grown a bit,” Chef Mona remarked, laughing to herself as she glanced out the window. What went well: These are the things that were good/great/amazing. Things we could “continue doing.” Just when Mona was about to leave, she glanced towards the window again and gasped. Running to the window, she shouted, “Oh my! My goodness! Look at her!” Bill calmly glanced in the direction she was pointing.The most powerful indicator of our success is the coaching retention rate. If the coaching program is valuable, teachers will want to do it. If it’s not, they won’t. I’m proud to say that 91% of staff would like to be involved in the program next year — our team has set a goal of 95% for next year. In learning the best situation is considered the level of “unconscious competence”: when you’ve learnt something so well, that you perform it automatically, or “unconsciously”. Fantastic. Obviously, a lot of this I think depends on the quality of the relationship you have with your manager. I've had managers I've worked for where I think this would have felt almost impossible and I've had other managers I've worked for where actually this would have felt maybe still hard at times, but much more doable. Everyone rushed to the window. As soon as they saw what the maid was pointing at, they reacted with just as much surprise as she had. Bill was on the far side of the garden, doing his work in his usual, hunched-over posture. And following right behind him was a little girl, just like the rumor. Her golden hair, which was woven into a braid, swung like a pendulum behind her with each step.

An often neglected area of the process of all forms of observation is the post-observation conversation*. In establishing a culture where developmental lesson observations are used to develop the quality of learning opportunities alongside and not instead-of or as separate-from judgmental or graded observations, the challenge is to find the most effective way to ensure that every post-lesson conversation is about professional learning and not professional telling. One challenge for many teams is that retros sometimes feel awkward. But you can get past this, to reveal the real nuggets:You don’t have to share any of the information that comes up outside the team. This is purely for the team to use to improve itself. During the meeting, he showed all his remarkable sales capabilities. Really high level. Not surprisingly, after a couple of weeks, the prospect should have started to collaborate with us. systems that reflect and embrace the values of truly developmental and highly reflective professional learning