 So here's how my four-way into coaching began. It's a great story. I was in a school, a large high school. Principal came to me after going off to some meeting somewhere and said, we're going to get a coach. And I said, great. I thought you had some. Who quit? Of course, what am I thinking? You know, the track, the football, the soccer, the basketball. That's what I'm thinking. I don't know who quit. Somebody, I'll be getting an extra coach. The golf coach quit. You know, I don't know who's quit. And he said, no, we're going to get this new thing. And I said, oh, okay, what's that? It's called an instructional coach. And I thought, what a clever idea. He said, would you ever do that? And I said, what does it mean? And he says, I don't know, but you'll figure it out. This was two days before school started. So in those two days, he hired somebody to replace me for three of my teaching periods, which was great because lots of coaches get to do coaching on top of their full teaching responsibility. So I had these three periods and school started and I went to the lounge and sat around and read the paper and drink coffee because I didn't know what I was supposed to do as an instructional coach, but I figured that whatever it was, nobody wanted to talk to me until they got into a routine of the school year. So after three days of doing that, I was really bored. And I went to the principal's office and I said, so how do I learn how to do this? And he said, oh, here I've been meaning to give you this and he handed me a list. And on the list were all the bad teachers and these were my clients. I looked at the list and of course I taught in that school a while. So what I was looking at was not a surprise to me, but I also had this tremendous nod in my stomach about how I was going to accept this literally take the list out of his hand and decided not to, which was a really smart move on my part. I gave the list back, but I did as I was glancing at that list make one observation as I went through the list of about 10 people. It was pretty clear to me. I knew where I could find most of those teachers. Now I remember I talked about this being before some of you were born. I would find most of them at several points during the day in the boiler room. Now I'm not suggesting there's a high correlation between the names of the people on my list and the activity that occurred in boiler rooms in schools back when I was a coach. But I will tell you every one of the people on my list was in the boiler room. So I took up hanging out in the boiler room. I even took up the activity that goes on in the boiler room. What are you doing here because I've never been there for as many years as I've been in the school. I knew where the boiler room was, but I've never been there. What are you doing here artist hanging out. So after a week of hanging out. I heard one of them walking toward the boiler room ahead of me making some comment about this kid who was a problem kid everyone knew this kid everyone really had a hard time with this student and and this teacher talking to another teacher was talking about a problem that occurred with this kid in his class that day and I thought to myself could this be it could this be my opportunity to do instructional coaching. So I go to the boiler room and I say I hear you had a thing with I won't you know I'll just call Bill I wear the bills in the room. It was an appropriate name to choose then I hear you had a thing with Bill. I kid just drives me crazy he blah blah blah and blah blah blah three of them. Oh man let me tell you let me tell you let me tell you. So all now we've got Bill child study I'm thinking this is good we can have a child review process right here in the boiler room. So now I've got to get to the next question. And I say something stupid like this. If Bill were successful in your class what would it look like if Bill were behaving the way you wanted him to behave in your class what would that look like. And they went he can't I saw yeah I know we can't but if you if you were what would it look like. And they had this long list of things they wanted from Bill and I said have any of you ever said to Bill that's what you wanted and they looked at me and they said well he's supposed to know that. Yeah but talk to him and that's how it started.