The IC Toolkit
Jim Knight, Jessica Wise, Michelle Harris, Amy Musante
Bringing together for the first time a wealth of resources and practical tools, The IC Toolkit is designed to guide instructional coaches–either individually, or preferably collectively–through a 36-week journey of practice, reflection, and learning. This book provides learning paths including articles, activities, checklists, case studies, and videos that you can use every week.
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“The IC Toolkit is a dynamic, year-long companion crafted to empower coaches, providing them with the resources to continually elevate their skills, sharpen their beliefs, and broaden their knowledge.”
– Jim Knight
“The IC Toolkit is for instructional coaches, coach champions who lead coaching work, or anyone who supports instructional coaching. We’ve kept you all in mind as we compiled literature and activities that can guide your self-paced learning about Jim’s Seven Success Factors for effective instructional coaching.”
- Jessica Wise
“If you have a team of coaches and you’re wondering how to make sure your meetings are helping them hone their craft, this is the book you need! From articles to activities, you can develop opportunities for your coaches to deepen their knowledge, practice in a safe environment, and reflect on what’s working and where there is room for growth. Written for practitioners by practitioners, we want coaching in your system to thrive so all students receive excellent instruction every day in every classroom.”
- Michelle Harris
“The IC Toolkit is a curated set of resources to help you refine and expand your coaching skills and beyond. The contents of this toolkit will help you reimagine how you come together with learners in your system and consider setting goals in where you’d like to be.”
- Amy Musante
36 Weeks of Practice, Reflection, and Learning
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The Partnership Principles
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Communication Skills
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03
Coaches as Leaders
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The Impact Cycle
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05
Data
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The Instructional Playbook
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System Support
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A toolkit that compiles research and activities to guide your learning
Expand Your Learning
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.
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.
Leverage The IC Toolkit to Cultivate Learning
For more than 25 years, Jim Knight and his team at the Instructional Coaching Group have been studying what excellence in instructional coaching looks and sounds like. Their findings—organized around 7 Success Factors for instructional coaches and shared via books, articles, and workshops—have helped many instructional coaches around the world to increase teacher effectiveness and improve outcomes for students. When instructional coaches become highly proficient in their craft, we can see students, teachers, and systems flourish.
Read More About Instructional Coaching
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.
