Feedback is Clarity Wrapped in Discomfort

A first-person narrative of a teacher "playing the coaching game"

I’ll admit it: I didn’t want to hear it.

The feedback, that is.

I knew it was coming—another conversation about how my lesson went sideways, how my pacing was off, or how I’d missed the moment to correct and reengage my students. My coach sat across from me, kind but direct. She wasn’t there to rub my back; she was there to help me get better. Damn it, I …