Due to safety guidelines, all of Region 13's Jim Knight Institute sessions will be held virtually.
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:
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Understanding how to work with adults (which we refer to as understanding the complexities of helping and the partnership approach)
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Understanding the coaching cycle
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Understanding high-impact teaching practices
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Understanding how to gather data and use video as a part of coaching
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Effective communication skills
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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:
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What are the five core concepts of change literacy and how should instructional coaches address those concepts during coaching?
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What are the partnership principles and how should coaches use them to guide their interactions?
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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?
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What are PEERS goals, how are they different from SMART goals, and how should they be used to guide coaching?
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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?
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What data should instructional coaches gather to help teachers set goals and to monitor progress toward goals?
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What is an instructional playbook, and which high-impact teaching strategies should be a part of any playbook?
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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?
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How should coaches lead to have the greatest positive impact on teaching and learning?
Individual Workshop # FA2044618
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.
Participants will receive a copy of the book, Better Conversations, along with the Reflective Guide to support their learning.
November 11, 2020 - The Impact Cycle presented by Ann Hoffman
Individual Workshop # FA2044621
Based on the book The Impact Cycle, this workshop describes the coaching cycle we suggest for instructional coaches. It moves participants through all three phases of the Impact Cycle with videos, conversations, practice and instruction that includes PEERS goals, identify questions, modeling and strategy work. This training also includes complexities of helping as well as partnership principles.
Participants will receive a copy of the book, The Impact Cycle, along with the Reflective Guide to support their learning.
January 27, 2021 - Coaching to Increase Student Engagement presented by Ann Hoffman
Individual Workshop # SP2144623
Student engagement is an important aspect of learning, and addressing it through instructional coaching is an effective way to improve instruction. This workshop focuses on defining the different types of engagement, how to measure them, and using teaching strategies to hit corresponding goals.
Participants will receive a copy of the Coaching to Increase Student Engagement workbook.
February 24, 2021 -Gathering Data and Setting PEERS Goals presented by Ann Hoffman
Individual Workshop # SP2144626
This workshop provides coaches and administrators with a clear understanding of the data points - such as time on task, ratio of interaction, teacher talk v.s. student talk, instructional v.s. non-instructional time, and so on - they will need to gather in classrooms to help teachers get a clear picture of reality, set goals, and monitor progress toward goals.
Participants will receive a copy of the workbook, Gathering Data
April, 20, 2021 - Creating an Instructional Playbook presented by Dr. Jim Knight
Individual Workshop # SP2144628
This workshop guides coaches and others—such as administrators—through the development of an Instructional Playbook. The Instructional Playbook is a lean and clean collection of instructional strategies that instructional coaches can use to aid in giving teachers choices in which strategies they use to hit their goals for students. It can also help the coach to teach the strategy deeply to the teacher so that the teacher feels more confident about the implementation of the strategy with kids.
Participants will receive a copy of Jim Knight's new book, The Instructional Playbook and Workbook.
Virtual Coaching
Participants will also be given the opportunity to participate in virtual coaching sessions to support the implementation of their learning into practice.
GROUP DISCOUNT (8 or more participants): $15 OFF per participant!
Contact Laura Varney at laura.varney@esc13.txed.net or 512-919-5137 for Discount Code.
***Please Note***
Because books are included in the registration fee and shipped prior to the workshops, participants may not cancel after the first meeting, and districts will be billed the cost of the entire institute regardless of attendance.
We will be pulling attendance from Zoom and verifying it against E-Campus throughout the live sessions, and districts will be billed for any unregistered participants who use the link provided to attend these workshops.