Instructional coaching guru Jim Knight suggests that how we think about coaching can enhance or interfere with our success as a coach. He suggests that coaches take a partnership approach to collaboration and adopt seven principles that define how coaches interact with collaborating teachers: equality, choice, voice, reflection, dialogue, praxis, and reciprocity. Coaches who act on the partnership principles enroll teachers, identify teachers' goals for their students, listen, ask questions, explain teaching practices, and provide feedback. (Contains 2 endnotes.)