What Relay style coaching features are available in SchoolMint Grow?

Learn what features and tools can be enabled in Grow that are aligned with the Relay coaching model.

Please note: this article is primarily for users at districts that use Relay coaching practices. If you are interested in setting up any of these features on your site, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager/Specialist.

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Grow is the preferred coaching platform partner for Relay schools. The platform is designed to systematically track all of the information that your leaders input and churn out powerful reports so that coaching can be data-driven. Additionally, the Grow team has worked directly with Relay schools all over the country, as well as the Relay organization itself, to design specific features aligned with the coaching style. Read on to learn more about what Relay features can be enabled in Grow!

Relay Style Features Overview

Click play below for a quick overview of our Relay-related offerings!

Get Better Faster Action Step Bank

Save your leaders some time by enabling the Get Better Faster (GBF) Action Step bank. Rather than referencing external materials to find the Relay language, just click on the dropdown and see the entire Scope & Sequence of GBF Action Steps. Once selected, you can edit the text or assign it as is.

Pro Tip: If district leadership is coaching principals, then the Grow team can also build in the Principal Scope & Sequence of Action Steps to the dropdown.

Get Better Faster Action Step Tags

Every time you assign an Action Item, you can tag it to the GBF scope & sequence. These tags serve two purposes. First, the teacher can see the tag right on their Action Step so they know exactly what phase of the scope they're in. Second, data from these tags can be tracked across your campus, or the entire district, so you can see across the board that your teachers are moving through the continuum as the year progresses. 

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Get Better Faster Report

Are you curious where that GBF tag data filters to? Check out the Get Better Faster Report! Look at data for a specific campus, a specific individual, or across the entire district. Here you can see exactly what phases the Action Steps are being tagged in from month to month so you can better support teachers as they progress through the scope. 

Observation Feedback (See It. Name It. Do It.)

Relay's Observation Feedback form can be found right in Grow's Observation feature.

• Use the Running Record to take continuous, time-stamped notes as you observe the teacher.
• Prepare your feedback conversation by clicking on portions of the script and seeing them drop into the box below, where you can edit as needed (see below).
• Prepare and assign the teacher's high-leverage Action Step.

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Meetings

Districts & schools have the opportunity to share with us any meeting templates they'd like customized in Grow. You also have the option to enable specific templates that have been designed to be closely aligned with the Relay process, with pre-loaded prompts and scripting, including:

• Weekly Data Meeting
• Planning Meeting Protocol
• Principal & Manager Check-In

These meetings include a variety of different features, like the ability for the host and participants to prepare before the meeting, as well as the option for everyone to capture notes and spar on ideas throughout. Below see an example of host and participant sparring with their Weekly Data Meeting Know/Show charts:

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Weekly Data Meeting Report

This report will capture all of the data recorded in Weekly Data Meetings at your school(s). Review if gaps are being correctly identified and if these meetings are successfully improving student mastery of the content.

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