Learning conversations lie at the heart of leading and coaching in schools. At their best, conversations between teachers, coaches, and administrators can lead to greater effectiveness, self-efficacy, and student success. When they are ineffective, however, they can crush morale, diminish trust, and interfere with professional learning. Leaders and coaches are more effective when they learn how to share ideas in a way that doesn’t shut down teachers’ voices, ideas, and thinking. We refer to this type of conversation as a partnering conversation. We believe learning how to have partnering conversations is an essential skill for leaders and coaches. For clarity, we identify two categories of conversations: telling and partnering. Additionally, we identify two kinds of partnering conversation: dialogical and facilitative. Coaches and leaders need to