Coaching questions, exercises, and role plays for instructional coaches and school leaders.

Built for

Instructional coaches, for the conversation after a classroom visit
Principals and assistant principals, to walk in with one real question
District leaders and consultants, for the hard conversations

How it works

Choose your momentTell it where you are, what you are working on, and how much time you have.
Get moves made for itQuestions, prompts, exercises and role plays for that moment, not a library to dig through.
Take what you needCopy a move, or add moves to a plan to print or save as a PDF and carry in.

1Where are you right now?

2What are you working on?

3How much time do you have?

In every move, you are the coach and they are the person you're coaching.

18 moves for you

In the conversation · Start here

Question5 minStart here

Which adult move in that lesson changed what students did? How do you know?

Exercise20 minStart here

Three piles of student work

Role play10 minStart here

Walkthrough feedback that starts with students

Question5 minStart here

What did we each say we'd do last time, and where does it stand?

Question3 minStart here

What did I promise you last time, and did I deliver?

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My plan

Your plan, as a page you can carry in

Add up to 6 moves. Your plan becomes a two-page document: the plan, with room to take notes, then how to run each move. It stays in this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere until you download.

Nothing here yet. Choose “Add to my plan” on any move above.

Where the ideas come from

Coach Genius is built on the five UnTapped Genius coaching principles. Every question, prompt, exercise and role play is written in our own words. Many build on methods that coaches and improvement teams have used for years, and each move that does says so under “Idea behind it.”

A few moves are adapted from structures in Liberating Structures, by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless, which are shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Those adapted moves are shared under the same license.

Coach Genius is free to use. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any organization or author named above or in the ideas it builds on.

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How it works

Choose your momentTell it where you are, what you are working on, and how much time you have.

Get moves made for itQuestions, prompts, exercises and role plays for that moment, not a library to dig through.

Take what you needCopy a move, or add moves to a plan to print or save as a PDF and carry in.

Where the ideas come from

Coach Genius is free to use. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any organization or author named above or in the ideas it builds on.