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Ask permission explicitly
Coaching is voluntary.
Made for Principals
Coach a Reluctant Teacher Without Becoming Their Boss
Also useful for: Teachers, Tutors, people in Education
30 min
Intermediate
Difficult Conversation
Offer one small experiment they choose, not a fix list from admin.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Coaching without consent is supervision in disguise.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Offer one experiment
Low stakes.
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Close with admin boundary
Honest reporting.
Make Your Play
Coach a Reluctant Teacher Without Becoming Their Boss
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
What was said, what you actually saw.
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Defensive, overwhelmed, checked out.
Small, observable.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Ask permission explicitly
Coaching is voluntary.
02
Offer one experiment
Low stakes.
03
Close with admin boundary
Honest reporting.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Fill the fields with this week’s real details. Incomplete notes beat invented polish.
Run the assembled prompt, answer follow-ups with specifics, then copy the deliverable into your own doc and verify names and numbers.
Advanced instructions
Add constraints the model can’t see: politics, licensing, cash timing, union rules, or family bandwidth.
After the first pass, ask it to attack the weakest assumption in the draft.
Use this when
Admin referred a teacher to you and they are cold in the first meeting.
You'll need
- Why admin referred them
- Teacher vibe so far
- One practice you could offer
You'll get
- A a first coaching conversation: permission, one practice, and opt-out dignity you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A a first coaching conversation: permission, one practice, and opt-out dignity you can use without rewriting it from scratch.
Examples
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