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1. What do you think will be the greatest challenge for creating a "partnership of effective communication" between curriculum specialists and instructional coaches and between ICs and teachers?

2. According to Stephen Covey (p.63), "Empathic listening gets inside another person's frame of reference. You look out through it, you see the world the way they see the world...The essence of empathic listening is not that you agree with someone; it's that you fully, deeply, understand that person, emotionally as well as intellectually." How can we incorporate this into our training sessions with our coaches?

3. Knight says that to be effective, ICs must become masters at building emotional connections with their teachers. What is our role and how can we facilitate that for our coaches?