Ask Practitioners About the Last Time They Needed Another Role
Instrument 1: Practitioner Interview
Companion to The Child Should Never Experience the Organizational Chart · Updated 2026-09-30
Use this to interview a teacher, specialist, counselor, psychologist, or leader about how coordination works in practice. Begin with role and context, not opinions about the framework. Record the date and the interviewee’s role, and leave the name off any copy that leaves the team.
Role and Context
| Question | Answer or notes |
|---|---|
| What is your role, and which students or schools do you support? |
Recent Coordination
| Question | Answer or notes |
|---|---|
| Describe the last time you needed another professional’s expertise in order to make a good decision for a student. | |
| How did you know whom to contact? | |
| What information did you already have, and what was missing? | |
| How long did coordination take? | |
| What did the child experience while adults were figuring it out? |
How Other Roles’ Work Helps and Hurts
| Question | Answer or notes |
|---|---|
| Tell me about a time when another role’s work made your work easier. | |
| Tell me about a time when another role’s work unintentionally made your work harder. | |
| Which recurring meeting is most useful to student learning, and why? | |
| Which recurring meeting produces the least value, and why? | |
| Where do students most often fall between roles? | |
| Where do families have to repeat, reconcile, or manage information that the school should be managing internally? |
What Makes It Work
| Question | Answer or notes |
|---|---|
| When coordination works unusually well, what person or routine makes the difference? | |
| If that person left tomorrow, would the behavior continue? | |
| What is one boundary between specialties that should remain strong rather than be blurred? | |
| What is one boundary that creates unnecessary friction? |
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