Every student receiving excellent instruction, every day, in every classroom

We embrace a partnership approach in everything we do, and although professional development for and in support of instructional coaches is central to our work, we also provide support for teachers, administrators, and other leaders.

Over 20 years of research, workshops, institutes, publications, and other programming efforts with one goal in mind: to help students experience better learning and better lives.

Jim Knight

Founder & Senior Partner

Small team, big goals

The Instructional Coaching Group is a small team of passionate, talented, and hardworking people who want to make a difference. It’s our pleasure to work with partners around the globe to improve the education of all students.

Everything you need for instructional coaching success

The Coaching Institute (formerly the Intensive Instructional Coaching Institute) is a focused and intensive professional development opportunity based on 20+ years of research. Our most comprehensive service, it is offered as a 16-week virtual training event, as well as a 5-day on-site training event, and provides a big picture view of instructional coaching. Content areas that are covered during The Coaching Institute include: the Partnership Principles, The Impact Cycle, Better Conversations, Classroom Management, and Engagement.

Over 5,000 instructional coaches have successfully completed The Coaching Institute, representing every continent across the globe, except Antarctica.

Research-based professional development

We provide a variety of workshops that can be customized and facilitated at your location or through a virtual platform. Our team of certified consultants provide one- and two-day workshops, as well as 5-week workshops structured around the research-validated Partnership Learning approach—offering practical, engaging, and enjoyable learning experiences for your team. The following are some of our most popular workshops; contact us to schedule a workshop for your team.

Let us create a customized plan for your team and partner with you to meet your goals.

Your ongoing mission deserves ongoing support

We know that after the excitement of an event day wears off, there can be a bit of a “What’s next?” feeling. Don’t let that valuable training fall to the wayside.

Embedded coaching days provide on-the-spot professional learning with an ICG senior consultant, focused on the needs of each coach as it pertains to the Impact Cycle coaching model.

The biggest conference designed specifically for instructional coaching

The Teaching Learning Coaching Conference (TLC) is the world’s leading conference for instructional coaching and instructional practice. Each year, this 3-day conference consists of education experts and practitioners who lead keynote presentations and learning sessions focused on high-impact teaching strategies, proven instructional coaching practices, and system-change strategies designed to lead to high performance schools.

Critical tools for effective instructional coaching

Jim Knight, along with ICG’s team of experienced consultants, has written extensively on topics related to education, teaching, coaching, and communication. These publications are all grounded in the work of ICG experts and other highly regarded professionals in the fields of education and research.

Our publications provide value insight for instructional coaches, teachers, and administrators with the singular goal of improving instruction and, most important, student learning.