by Jim Knight | May 22, 2018 | Uncategorized |
Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with Randy and Tricia, of Safe and Civil Schools, about their work surrounding coaching and behavior. You can read the full interview below. In the weeks leading up to our annual conference, I’ll be posting interviews with...
by Jim Knight | May 16, 2018 | Uncategorized |
Kristin Anderson will be keynoting at this year’s TLC conference, and we’re thrilled.Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with Kristin about her ideas surrounding trust in our school system and the effect it has on teacher effectiveness and student...
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 | Apr 17, 2018 | Uncategorized |
When I first started out studying Instructional Coaching, one of the first books I read was Steve Barkley’s Quality Teaching in a Culture of Coaching. Soon after I read Steve’s book, I was honored to be asked to be a part of a video course on coaching...
by Jim Knight | Apr 3, 2018 | Uncategorized |
Elena Aguilar is an important voice in the field of coaching, and we are thrilled that she will be speaking at our Teaching, Learning, Coaching Conference this year. Elena’s work has helped me and many, many coaches get a deeper understanding of what coaching is and...
by Jim Knight | Mar 22, 2018 | Uncategorized |
Recently, at the Instructional Coaching Group, we’ve been trying to create a structure for our daily conversations. Our plan always is to refine, refine, refine using our Lean Design Research Model, described in The Impact Cycle, but at this point we see coaching...
