by Brian Sepe | Oct 18, 2022 | Improving Instruction, Professional Learning, Teaching Strategies |
“When teachers set compelling student-focused goals for engagement or achievement, they establish an objective standard for judging how effectively they are implementing new practices. The standard for excellence in teaching should always be student...
by Matt Kelly | Jun 1, 2022 | Improving Instruction, Instructional Coaching, Professional Learning, Self-Coaching |
Part of professional growth is learning new things every day. Educators must often adapt quickly to meet urgent needs of students, overcome unforeseen challenges, or sometimes follow countless surface-level introductions to new strategies. However, the ability to...
by Matt Kelly | May 26, 2022 | Improving Instruction, Instructional Coaching, Professional Learning, School Reform, Student Learning |
Jim Knight and Michael Faggella-Luby’s article in the April 2022 issue of the Learning Forward Journal, The Learning Professional, confronts the negative associations many educators have with the word “data.” These negative associations with data often rise from...
by Geoff Knight | Nov 24, 2020 | Improving Instruction, Professional Learning, TLC Interviews |
Each year at the Teaching Learning Coaching conference, The Instructional Coaching Group presents The Don Deshler Leadership Award to someone who has made a great impact on teaching and education. This award was created to honor Dr. Donald D. Deshler who directed more...
by Sasha Strunk and Geoff Knight | Nov 19, 2020 | Improving Instruction, Instructional Coaching, Professional Learning |
To be an effective instructional coach, one requires skills, knowledge, and a deep understanding of a coaching cycle process. A good coach needs to know how to gather data, how to implement teaching strategies, and how to build relationships through conversation. To...
by Geoff Knight | Oct 27, 2020 | Improving Instruction, Instructional Coaching, New Coaches, Partnership Principles, Professional Learning |
After studying coaching for more than 20 years, Jim Knight has concluded that recognizing and honoring teacher autonomy is an essential and fundamental part of effective coaching. Edward Deci and Richard Ryan (2000) synthesized their decades of research on motivation...