Coaching is a career-long conversation between teachers and their individual coaches about the high-order professional/technical understandings and behaviors that collectively become difference-makers in the lives of students. In a previous article on distributed leadership, ISM identified coaching as a key skill for school leaders. Coaching is intrinsic to faculty evaluation as we have described it in ISM’s Comprehensive Faculty Development Model™. Coaching is also clearly implied for School Heads in the School Leadership Points of Emphasis. In this article, we outline the ISM Relational Coaching Model. While coaching is a form of communication, it is a specialized subset that requires training and practice.