RADICAL LEARNERS

I’m fortunate to be a part of ICG, where I get to experience many great learning experiences.  One experience I’m most excited about, is the upcoming Leadership Coaching Institute, which John Campbell, from Sydney, Australia, and Christian Van Nieuwerburgh, from...

One of the most thought-provoking articles I’ve read in a long time was just published by Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall as the lead article in this month’s Harvard Business Review. The article, The Feedback Fallacy, convincingly makes the case that most...

Learning maps (Knight, 2013) are graphic organizers that can support student learning and growth through a focus on the big idea and the connections that link it to the content.  In our work as instructional coaches in a school where learning maps have...

One of my favorite recordings is  Solomon Burke singing Patty Griffin’s magnificent song, “Up To The Mountain”—her tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King based on the famous mountain top speech Dr. King gave the night before he...

Mention the term “instructional coaching” in a room full of educators, and you’ll hear as many different interpretations of what that term means as you have employee ID badges in the room. Jim Knight coined that term many years ago, and he defined it, too:...

In time, it could have been so much more But time is precious I know In time, it could have been so much more But time has nothing to show. --”Time (Clock of the Heart),” by Culture Club The issue of “leadership” is tricky in a coaching model like ours that emphasizes...