When it comes to improving practice, few professional texts can rival the impact felt by Jim Knight’s Instructional Coaching. For hundreds of thousands of educators, Jim bridged the long-standing divide between staff room and classroom offering up a much more collaborative, respectful, and efficient PD model for achieving instructional excellence.
Now, one decade of research and hundreds of in-services later, Jim takes that work a significant step further with The Impact Cycle: an all-new instructional coaching cycle to help teachers and, in turn, their students improve in clear, measurable ways.
“The Impact Cycle described in this book is a process coaches can use to partner with teachers to help them have a positive impact on students’ learning and well-being. The three stages of the cycle –identify, learn, improve –are central to coaching and, I believe, are also central to something fundamental: our universal desire to get better. I wrote this book to recognize that coaching is both simple and complex, and I want to honor that simultaneous simplicity and complexity by summarizing what we have learned to make it easier for instructional coaches to implement the Impact Cycle.”
What is instructional coaching?
Three approaches to coaching
Deep learning, deep coaching
Getting a clear picture of current reality
Using video to get a clear picture of reality
Learning from students
Putting it all together
