Coach's Playbook
This is not part of a VAR Coach's role: recommend specific tools (e.g., Starfish) or troubleshoot data errors.
What is providing technical solutions or support?
One of the five high-level categories, this includes academic, career, financial aid, and transfer advising.
What is Counseling?
This is the official deadline for the first statewide VAR report covering the 2024–2025 year.
What is December 15, 2025?
Instead of offering solutions, a VAR Coach uses this strategy to deepen equity-minded reflection and college team sensemaking.
What is strategic questioning?
This category covers aid like textbooks, food, housing, child care, transportation, and technology.
What is Direct Aid to Students?
Beginning in this reporting year, colleges must submit student ID data for program activities to MIS, replacing aggregate subgroup counts.
What is 2025–2026?
By surfacing multiple perspectives, engaging in active listening, and supporting team dynamics, VAR Coaches are practicing this type of partnership.
What is thought partnership?
University tours, tutoring, learning communities, and peer support all belong under this category.
What are Student Support Services?
The Chancellor’s Office emphasized that cost reporting in VAR is for this purpose, not fiscal audit or grant compliance.
What is understanding the real cost of serving students (for information and advocacy)?
Checking in weekly with team leads to enforce timelines resembles this workplace role, not coaching.
What is supervision/project management?
These types of activities fall under Instruction and can include articulation agreements, curriculum development, and instructional supplies.
What are instructional activities?
To align reporting across programs, VAR requires programs to connect activities to these four Vision 2030 student outcome goals.
What are completion, transfer, unit accumulation, and workforce?
While coaches keep conversations confidential, they may sometimes share insights with this group, with discretion, to better support a team’s success.
What are other VAR coaches?
If program funds are used for general office materials or staff salaries unrelated to a main category, they should be reported here.
What are Miscellaneous Program Support Costs?
Programs must report the number of students served annually in VAR, broken out by these three subgroups in the first year.
What are Hispanic/Latine, Black/African American, and economically disadvantaged students?