The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching: Seven Factors For Success
Jim Knight
In The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching, best-selling author and coaching guru Jim Knight offers a blueprint for establishing, administering, and assessing an instructional coaching program laser-focused on every educator's ultimate goal: the academic success of students.
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“As I write The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching, I have tried to create a document that provides a concise yet comprehensive review of the beliefs, processes, knowledge, and skills that instructional coaches can use to guide their practice and administrators can employ to create a coaching program that has an unmistakably positive impact on students.”
– Jim Knight
The Seven Factors For Success
01
Who You Are
The Partnership Principles
Communication Skills
Coaches as Leaders
02
What You Do
The Impact Cycle
Data
The Instructional Playbook
03
Where You Work
System Support
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Other Ways to Engage with the Seven Success Factors
Explore our other resources to learn more about Instructional Coaching. We offer a variety of workshops, PDFs, informational videos and more.
The Instructional Coaching Institute is a comprehensive foundational course that explores the seven success factors. It gives coaches and administrators everything they need to know to become successful coaching partners. It is backed by more than 20 years of research conducted by Jim Knight and researchers at The Instructional Coaching Group.
This customizable workshop, led by an ICG Consultant, is an opportunity to bring an expert to your district to give an overview of the seven success factors in a way that meets your specific needs.
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.
ICG: A Research Led Company
Jim Knight and ICG have conducted over 20 years of research on instructional coaching culminating in the seven factors for success. Having worked with more than 100,000 coaches from around the world, our data shows proof that successful implementation of these factors leads to improved student learning. As an industry leader, ICG grounds our operation in the first success factor: the Partnership Principles.
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View Jim Knight’s collection of books to learn about his research and how you can implement each of the seven factors for any successful coaching program.
