The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching / Edition 1

The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching / Edition 1

by Jim Knight
ISBN-10:
1506306861
ISBN-13:
9781506306865
Pub. Date:
08/25/2017
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
ISBN-10:
1506306861
ISBN-13:
9781506306865
Pub. Date:
08/25/2017
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching / Edition 1

The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching / Edition 1

by Jim Knight
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Overview

"Jim Knight is one of the wise men of coaching. His well is deep; he draws from it the best tools from practitioners, the wisdom of experience, and research-based insights. And he never loses sight of the bigger picture: the point of all this is to have more impact in this life we're lucky enough to live. "
—MICHAEL BUNGAY STANIER, Author of The Coaching Habit

"Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance. Jim Knight’s work has helped me understand the details of how effective coaching can and should be done. "
—DR. ATUL GAWANDE, surgeon, public health researcher, and author of The Checklist Manifesto



Identify . . . Learn . . . Improve

When it comes to improving practice, few professional texts can rival the impact felt by Jim Knight’s Instructional Coaching. For hundreds of thousands of educators, Jim bridged the long-standing divide between staff room and classroom offering up a much a more collaborative, respectful, and efficient PD model for achieving instructional excellence.

Now, one decade of research and hundreds of in-services later, Jim takes that work a significant step further with The Impact Cycle: an all-new instructional coaching cycle to help teachers and, in turn, their students improve in clear, measurable ways.

Quintessential Jim, The Impact Cycle comes loaded with every possible tool to help you reach your coaching goals, starting with a comprehensive video program, robust checklists, and a model Instructional Playbook. Quickly, you’ll learn how to


• Interact and dialogue with teachers as partners
• Guide teachers to identify emotionally compelling, measurable, and student-focused goals
• Set coaching goals, plan strategies, and monitor progress for optimal impact
• Use documentary-style video and text-based case studies as models to promote maximum teacher clarity and proactive problem solving
• Streamline teacher enrollment, data collection, and deep listening

Jim writes, “When we grow, improve, and learn, when we strive to become a better version of ourselves, we tap into something deep in ourselves that craves that kind of growth.” Read The Impact Cycle and soon you’ll discover how you can continually refine your practice to help teachers and students realize their fullest potential.

View Jim Knight’s Impact Cycle video trailer:


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506306865
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 08/25/2017
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 80,004
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Jim Knight has spent more than two decades studying professional learning, effective teaching, and instructional coaching. He is a Research Associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning and the President of the Instructional Coaching Group.

Jim wrote the first article on the topic of instructional coaching for The Journal of Staff Development, and his book Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction (Corwin, 2007) popularized the idea. Jim edited Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives (Corwin, 2009) and co-authored Coaching Classroom Management (Pacific Northwest Publishing, 2010). Jim’s other books include Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach to Dramatically Improving Instruction (Corwin, 2011), High-Impact Instruction: A Framework or Great Teaching (Corwin, 2013), and Focus on Teaching: Using Video for High-Impact Instruction (Corwin, 2014).

Jim’s articles on professional learning, teaching, and instructional coaching have appeared in journals such as The Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, Kappan, and Educational Leadership.

Frequently asked to lead professional learning, Jim has presented to more than 30,000 educators from six continents. He has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Kansas and has won several university teaching, innovation, and service awards. Jim also writes the Radical Learners blog.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
CHAPTER 1. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO IMPROVE?
What Is Instructional Coaching?
Three Approaches to Coaching
Deep Learning, Deep Coaching
CHAPTER 2. IDENTIFY: GETTING A CLEAR PICTURE OF REALITY
Getting a Clear Picture of Current Reality
Using Video to Get a Clear Picture of Reality
Learning From Students
Putting It All Together
CHAPTER 3. QUESTIONS TO IDENTIFY A PEERS GOAL
PEERS Goals
Questions to Identify a PEERS Goal
The Identify Questions
CHAPTER 4. LEARN
Describing Teaching Strategies
Instructional Playbooks
Modeling Teaching Strategies
CHAPTER 5. IMPROVE
The Improve Stage of the Impact Cycle
Step 1: Confirm Direction
Step 2: Review Progress
Step 3: Invent Improvements
Step 4: Plan Next Actions
INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES’ TOOLKIT
Strategies for Enrolling Teachers
Data-Gathering Tools
Instructional Playbook
Strategies for Assessing Student Attitude
Appendix: Lean-Design Research
Development of the Impact Cycle
Lean-Design Research
Interviews
References
Index
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