The Impact Cycle: Reflection Guide
Jim Knight, Jennifer Ryschon Knight, Clinton Carlson
The Impact Cycle Reflection Guide is intended to guide you along in your personal or group study of the Impact Cycle. It can also serve as your go-to resource covering the most essential aspects of the Impact Cycle in an easy-to-find format.
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“Instructional coaching honors the humanity of all involved in the learning process, and when the Impact Cycle is used to provide structure, focus, and responsible accountability to the coaching process, exciting gains can be made in your practice and–as a result–in student learning.”
– Jim Knight
The Impact Cycle
01
What Does it Mean to Improve?
The 7 Partnership Principles
Three Approaches to Coaching: Facilitative, Dialogical, Directive
Deep Learning, Deep Coaching
02
Introduction to the Impact Cycle
In this section, readers are introduced to the six foundational beliefs about communication. Readers are provided with prompts, questions, and activities to guide them as they thoughtfully decide what ideas drive the way they communicate.
03
Identify
Getting a clear picture of reality
Identifying goals
The Art of Listening and Questioning
04
Learn
Teaching Strategies
Instructional Playbook
Checklists
Modeling
CoTeaching
05
Improve
Measuring and Planning for Improvement
Partner with Teachers to Improve Teaching and Increase Student Success
Expand Your Learning
Explore our other resources to learn more about Instructional Coaching. We offer a variety of workshops, PDFs, informational videos and more.
This 2-day workshop describes the coaching cycle proposed for instructional coaches. The Impact Cycle, the product of 20 years of ICG research, provides a framework for any coaching scenario.
Ann Hoffman, shares what an instructional playbook is, who it benefits, and tips for creating one for your school or district.
When it comes to improving practice, few professional texts can rival the impact felt by Jim Knight's Instructional Coaching. For hundreds of thousands of educators, Jim bridged the long-standing divide between staff room and classroom offering up a much more collaborative, respectful, and efficient PD model for achieving instructional excellence.
To view specific resources from the Impact Cycle book and reflection guide, visit our publisher's companion website for quick and easy access to all the resources.
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 one hour webinar based on the book The Impact Cycle.
Deep Instructional Coaching Uses the Impact Cycle
When coaches enable deep coaching, they guide teachers through a reflective process that involves setting goals, identifying teaching strategies to be implemented to reach those goals, collaborating, and adapting teaching and learning until the goals are met. When instructional coaching is done well, it empowers the learner to experience deep learning.
Read About Other Success Factors
Our research has helped us identify seven success factors that are essential for developing and sustaining a great coaching program. Success Factor #4 is the Impact Cycle. View Jim Knight’s collection of books to learn about his research and other success factors.
