Here's another transcript of a coaching conversation! This is the follow up to a blog in which I shared the plan for a conversation I had with a teacher whom I called, "John." Here's how it went, along with my thoughts during the conversation. You won't read the whole thing - just about ten minute of the conversation.

E: John, today, for this conversation, I want to talk about what happened this week in terms of your implementation of the new writing resources that you agreed to start on Monday. I didn't see it happening when I came in to visit on Monday. Can you help me understand that decision?

J: Well, I was going to, but there was this story I was supposed to teach before we started the writing. I started to do that, but these kids take forever, so we spent the whole week reading it and wrote a summary. We'll get to the writing next.

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