Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach for Dramatically Improving Instruction
Jim Knight
This book simplifies the process for becoming an Impact School through targeted, consistent professional learning that is done with teachers, not to teachers. Jim Knight provides tangible tools for translating staff members’ joy of learning into high-leverage practices that achieve dramatic results.
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“I wrote this book to build on successes and address roadblocks. This is my attempt to provide a simple map so that educators can align and integrate all professional learning for impact."
– Jim Knight
A Treasure Trove of Ideas
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Impact Schools
Core concepts of an Impact School
02
Partnership
The 7 Partnership Principles and how they relate to professional learning and teachers
03
Principals
Leading Schools and the Partnership Principles
The Big Four
Observing and Monitoring Teacher Progress
Principals as First Learners
Getting Support from Central Office
04
Instructional Coaching
Partnership with administrators
Workshops and Intensive Learning Teams
Components of coaching
Who should be a coach
05
Workshops That Make an Impact
Partnership approach
Impact Factors
Keys to delivering high-impact workshops
06
Intensive Learning Teams
Partnership Principles
Partnership facilitation
Impact factors
07
Partnership Communication
Partnership Principles and Communication
Ways to become excellent communicators
Align and Integrate All Professional Learning for Impact
Expand Your Learning
Explore our other resources to learn more about Instructional Coaching. We offer a variety of workshops, PDFs, informational videos and more.
Learn 6 beliefs and 10 habits to communicate messages clearly, promote healthy and productive relationships, and maneuver emotionally complex situations with truth.
This workshop delves into the complexities of supporting change and explores research-backed strategies to mitigate resistance.
This workshop describes how presenters can work from the Partnership Principles to build relationships with an audience, and guides participants through important strategies for designing and delivering presentations.
This workshop provides a deep understanding of how administrators and instructional coaches can collaborate to ensure that coaches have an unmistakably positive impact on teachers’ teaching and students’ learning.
The IC Toolkit: A Partnership Approach for Dramatically Improving Instruction. Coming Fall 2024.
These appendices contain standards, rubrics, feedback forms, self-evaluation forms, administrator forms, Impact Cycle checklist, and a candidate evaluation form intended to support the learning in the book and workshop.
A Partnership Approach to Improved Instruction
At ICG our mission is for every student to receive excellent instruction, every day, in every classroom, every where. Unmistakable Impact provides a focused approach to school improvement with the 7 Partnership Principles at the heart of consistent professional learning that is done with teachers, not to teachers.
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