Check out The Impact Cycle trailer: https://youtu.be/xX0OB7VBdGs
Every decade or so a book comes along that has such a profound impact on professional practice that it launches a movement. Such was the case ten years ago with Jim Knight's Instructional Coaching.
Now, it's about to happen again with The Impact Cycle and the accompanying Reflection Guide to The Impact Cycle, in which Jim shares his latest thinking, and advances an all-new instructional coaching cycle to help teachers and, in turn, their students improve in clear, measurable ways.
Join the hundreds of thousands of educators who already have benefited from Jim's ground-breaking work. Read The Impact Cycle, build upon your expertise with this companion Reflection Guide, and soon enough you, too, will experience the next "Jim Knight phenomenon."
EARLY ACCOLADES
"Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance. Jim Knight's work has helped me understand the details of how effective coaching can and should be done."
-Dr. Atul Gawande, Surgeon, Public Health Researcher, and
Author of The Checklist Manifesto Brigham and Women's Hospital
"This is a book by the master coach in practice and theory; it sums up the core notions of coaching, and provides a richness for action and thought for all who want to bring the power of coaching into teaching. I am convinced."
-John Hattie, Laureate Professor
Deputy Dean of MGSE, Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
"Jim Knight is one of the wise men of coaching. His well is deep, and he draws from it the best tools from practitioners, the wisdom of experience, and research-based insights. And he never loses the bigger picture: the point of all this is to have more impact in this life we're lucky enough to live."
-Michael Bungay Stanier, Author of The Coaching Habit
Show moreCheck out The Impact Cycle trailer: https://youtu.be/xX0OB7VBdGs
Every decade or so a book comes along that has such a profound impact on professional practice that it launches a movement. Such was the case ten years ago with Jim Knight's Instructional Coaching.
Now, it's about to happen again with The Impact Cycle and the accompanying Reflection Guide to The Impact Cycle, in which Jim shares his latest thinking, and advances an all-new instructional coaching cycle to help teachers and, in turn, their students improve in clear, measurable ways.
Join the hundreds of thousands of educators who already have benefited from Jim's ground-breaking work. Read The Impact Cycle, build upon your expertise with this companion Reflection Guide, and soon enough you, too, will experience the next "Jim Knight phenomenon."
EARLY ACCOLADES
"Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance. Jim Knight's work has helped me understand the details of how effective coaching can and should be done."
-Dr. Atul Gawande, Surgeon, Public Health Researcher, and
Author of The Checklist Manifesto Brigham and Women's Hospital
"This is a book by the master coach in practice and theory; it sums up the core notions of coaching, and provides a richness for action and thought for all who want to bring the power of coaching into teaching. I am convinced."
-John Hattie, Laureate Professor
Deputy Dean of MGSE, Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
"Jim Knight is one of the wise men of coaching. His well is deep, and he draws from it the best tools from practitioners, the wisdom of experience, and research-based insights. And he never loses the bigger picture: the point of all this is to have more impact in this life we're lucky enough to live."
-Michael Bungay Stanier, Author of The Coaching Habit
Show moreDr. Jim Knight, Founder and Senior Partner of Instructional
Coaching Group (ICG), is also a research associate at the
University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. He has spent
more than two decades studying professional learning and
instructional coaching. Jim earned his PhD in Education from the
University of Kansas and has won several university teaching,
innovation, and service awards.
The pioneering work Jim and his colleagues have conducted has led
to many innovations that are now central to professional
development in schools. Jim wrote the first major article about
instructional coaching for the Journal of Staff Development, and
his book Instructional Coaching (2007) offered the first extended
description of instructional coaching. Jim’s book Focus on Teaching
(2014) was the first extended description of how video should be
used for professional learning. Recently, writing with Ann Hoffman,
Michelle Harris, and Sharon Thomas, Jim introduced the idea of
instructional playbooks with their book on that topic.
Jim has written several books in addition to those described above,
including Unmistakable Impact (2011), High-Impact Instruction
(2013), Better Conversations (2015), The Impact Cycle (2018), and
The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching (2021). Knight has
also authored articles on instructional coaching and professional
learning in publications such as Educational Leadership, The
Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School
Administrator, and Kappan. Jim is also a columnist for Educational
Leadership and.
Through ICG, Knight conducts coaching workshops, hosts the Facebook
Live Program, “Coaching Conversations,” and provides consulting for
coaching programs around the world.
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