by Jim Knight | May 24, 2018 | Instructional Coaching |
In my work, I meet a lot of coaches who are struggling because they can’t seem to fit what they do into their model for coaching. Sometimes this conflict arises because coaches have learned to be facilitative coaches when they are expected to be dialogical coaches. ...
by Jim Knight | May 17, 2018 | Instructional Coaching |
Conversations will almost always fail when they involve what Michael Fullan refers to as judgmentalism. Fullan writes, “One of the ways not to develop capacity is through criticism, punitive consequences, or what I more comprehensively call judgementalism....
by Sharon Thomas | May 3, 2018 | Instructional Coaching, Uncategorized |
Accountability. Qualitative Feedback. Quantitative feedback. Data. Evaluation. These words loom over educators and schools every day. Often, these terms carry connotations of “reward and punishment” and “top-down management style,” concepts that are typically at odds...
by Jim Knight | Mar 13, 2018 | Instructional Coaching |
Steve Barkley is a long-time friend of the Teaching, Learning, Coaching Conference having presented with us on several occasions. His book, Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching, was one of the first I read as I prepared to write Instructional Coaching, and my...
by Jim Knight | Feb 20, 2018 | Instructional Coaching |
One of the presenters at this year’s Teaching Learning and Coaching Conference, Peter DeWitt, shared some great news last week—he’s bringing back his blog Finding Common Ground, which we consider one of the best blogs out there. In this post, we’ve included five of...
by Jim Knight | Jun 21, 2017 | Instructional Coaching, Professional Learning, School Reform, Uncategorized |
In the weeks leading up to our annual conference, Teaching, Learning, and Coaching, I’ll be posting interviews with the experts who will be presenting there. The interviews will surface many different ways of looking at coaching, and like the conference itself, I hope...
