Region 13's Jim Knight IC Institute 2018 - Year 1

Jim Knight’s Instructional Coaching Group has worked with 30,000 instructional coaches over the last 10 years, throughout 50 states and six continents.  Knight’s coaching model is focused on improving teaching to improve learning, and is comprised of simple step-by-step processes that coaches and educators can master.

Knight and his colleagues have identified six essential domains (knowledge and skills) that need to be in place for instructional coaches to succeed. When any of these is missing, a coach’s chances for success are significantly diminished.  The domains are:

  1. Understanding how to work with adults (which we refer to as understanding the complexities of helping and the partnership approach)
  2. Understanding the coaching cycle
  3. Understanding high-impact teaching practices
  4. Understanding how to gather data and use video as a part of coaching
  5. Effective communication skills
  6. Effective leadership skills and systems thinking (what principals need to know about coaching)

Based on the research, content, and Knight’s experience as the leading thought-leader in the field of Instructional Coaching, this unique and intensive institute offers professional development addressing all six areas.


Specifically this institute addresses the following guiding questions:

  • What are the five core concepts of change literacy and how should instructional coaches address those concepts during coaching?
  • What are the partnership principles and how should coaches use them to guide their interactions?
  • What is the Impact Cycle and how should it be employed by coaches in partnership with teacher to set goals and identify teaching strategies to hit goals, to ensure teachers understand new teaching strategies, and to provide support until teachers hit the identified goals?
  • What are PEERS goals, how are they different from SMART goals, and how should they be used to guide coaching?
  • Why is video recording an essential part of instructional coaching, and what can coaches do to dramatically decrease teacher resistance to video recording their lessons?
  • What data should instructional coaches gather to help teachers set goals and to monitor progress toward goals?
  • What is an instructional playbook, and which high-impact teaching strategies should be a part of any playbook?
  • What are the communication beliefs and habits that lead to the kind of learning conversations that are essential for effective coaching, and how can coaches master those beliefs and habits?
  • How should coaches lead to have the greatest positive impact on teaching and learning?
September 4, 2018 - Better Conversations

Based on the book Better Conversations, this workshop describes essential communication skills for everyone in a school—but especially coaches—to help create a setting where learning will flourish. 

September 5, 2018 - The Impact Cycle 

Based on the book The Impact Cycle, this workshop describes the coaching cycle; it is suggested for instructional coaches.

November 26, 2018 - Coaching for Positive Learning Environments

Based on the book High-Impact Instruction, this workshop provides an overview of many high-yield strategies teachers can use to plan instruction, assess learning, increase student mastery and engagement, and create positive learning communities in the classroom. The workshop can be geared to coaches, who will then share the strategies with teachers to help them hit their goals, or to all educators in a school.

January 8, 2019 - Coaching for Student Engagement

Based on the Data Toolkit in The Impact Cycle  and chapters 5-9 in High-Impact Instruction , participants in this workshop learn how to gather engagement data for (a) defining and assessing engagement, (b) getting a clear picture of reality, (c) setting goals, and (d) monitoring progress toward goals. Participants also learn about five teaching strategies that are proven to increase engagement and learning.

April 1, 2019 - Better Leaders

This workshop introduces participants to several high-yield leadership strategies, including clearly seeing reality, identifying purpose, managing time, understanding and shaping culture, managing change, combining ambition with humility. In addition, we present tools people can use to apply those strategies in their daily lives.

Virtual Coaching

This workshop also includes four separately thirty-minute virtual coaching sessions to support the implementation of learning.

 

GROUP DISCOUNT (8 or more participants):  10% OFF! 

Contact Laura Varney at laura.varney@esc13.txed.net or 512-919-5137 for Discount Code.

 


Instructional Coaching
In-person

$1,450.00
CPE Credits: 30.00  
Registration Closes: 12/1/2018 10:00 am
ESC Region 13
5701 Springdale Rd
Austin, TX 78723
Tue. 9/4/2018 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
Wed. 9/5/2018 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
Mon. 11/26/2018 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
Tue. 1/8/2019 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
Mon. 4/1/2019 - 9:00am to 3:30pm
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