The Instructional Playbook: The Missing Link for Translating Research into Practice
Jim Knight, Ann Hoffman, Michelle Harris, & Sharon Thomas
Teachers need the best resources and forms of support because students deserve the best we as educators can offer. An instructional playbook aims to serve as that kind of support: a tool that coaches can use to help teachers match specific learning goals with the right research-based instructional strategies.
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“The instructional playbook, first, is a tool that helps coaches develop the deep knowledge they need in order to be effective. Second, the playbook is a concise collection of tools that coaches create and then use to support teacher learning. We say that an instructional playbook is the missing link for translating research into practice because creating a playbook compels coaches to develop the deep knowledge and the tools they need to support teachers as they learn, implement, refine, and adapt practices to meet their students’ needs”
– Jim Knight
A Coach’s Guide to Teaching Strategies
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The Life-Changing Magic of the Instructional Playbook
What is an instructional playbook?
Why instructional playbooks are necessary
How instructional playbooks are created
Using an instructional playbook
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Creating the Table of Contents
Innovation overload
The table of contents
The process
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The One-Pager
What is a one-pager?
The purpose of the one-pager
Research and the one-pager
Creating the one-pager
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Checklists
Three mistakes to avoid when using checklists
The necessity of checklists
Creating checklists
Create A Playbook Uniquely Designed to Meet Teachers’ Instructional Needs
Expand Your Learning
Explore our other resources to learn more about Instructional Coaching. We offer a variety of workshops, PDFs, informational videos and more.
In settings where a clearly defined set of teaching strategies already exists, this workshop guides coaches and administrators through the development of an instructional playbook.
What teaching strategies should you include in your playbook? That's where High Impact Instruction comes in, these are the strategies that have the best chance of improving teaching. The instructional strategies mentioned in this course increase engagement and learning.
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.
Ann Hoffman, shares what an instructional playbook is, who it benefits, and tips for creating one for your school or district.
Build a Playbook with ICG Consultants
The idea of an instructional playbook has caught fire since Jim Knight described it in The Impact Cycle (2017). ICG hopes to support educators in creating playbooks that produce a common language about high-impact teaching strategies, deepen everyone’s understanding of what instructional coaches do, and, most important, support teachers and students in classrooms. We do this through hosting virtual workshops, and partnering with school districts to meet coaches’ needs where they’re at.
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.
