Region 13's Instructional Coach Institute - VIRTUAL
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?
This institute consists of five individual workshop dates. Each workshop is offered individually and as the entire institute, in both live and virtual formats.
If you prefer to attend the institute in person at Region 13, please register for:
FA2247958 Region 13's IC Institute with Jim Knight - LIVE
Due to the materials provided participants will not have the option to select between live vs. virtual once registered.
If you are not able to attend a specific workshop in person, it is recommended to register for the workshops individually to give you the option of delivery format for each meeting date.
GROUP DISCOUNT
$15 OFF per participant for groups of 8 or more!
Contact us at jackie.moore@esc13.txed.net or 512-919-5485 for Code
*Discount applies to reistration in the entire institute only
GROUP DISCOUNT
$15 OFF per participant for groups of 8 or more!
Contact us at jackie.moore@esc13.txed.net or 512-919-5485 for Code
*Discount applies to registration in the entire institute only
Participants may register for the entire institute or for the individual workshops
November 2, 2022 - Better Conversations presented by Jim Knight
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 Reflection Guide to support their learning.
Individual Workshops
# FA2248274 - LIVE Session | # FA2248297 - VIRTUAL Session
December 7, 2022 - The Impact Cycle Session 1 presented by Michelle Harris
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 Reflection Guide to support their learning.
Individual Workshops
#FA2248298 LIVE Session | #FA2248299 VIRTUAL Session
January 27, 2023 – The Impact Cycle Session 2 presented by Michelle Harris
Based on the book, The Impact Cycle, this workshop describes the coaching cycle we suggest for instructional coaches. Participants examine how PEERS goals contrast with how they currently set goals with teachers. They will analyze how they might use the Identify Questions with teachers. Participants will have the opportunity to practice using the Identify Questions and debrief on what it is like to use the questions and how it compares to how the currently coach.
Participants will receive a copy of the book, The Impact Cycle, along with the Reflection Guide to support their learning.
Individual Workshops
# SP2348300 LIVE Session | #SP2348301 VIRTUAL Session
February 28, 2023 - Coaching for Engagement presented by Michelle Harris
What engagement is, Why engagement is important Gathering data for: Defining and assessing engagement, Getting a clear picture of reality, Setting goals, Monitoring progress toward goals.
Participants will: Learn what distinguishes the different types of engagement: Behavioral, Cognitive, Emotional. Develop methods for gathering data and measuring various types of engagement. Practice the five teaching strategies proven to reach engagement goals and increase learning, Thinking prompts, Effective questions, Stories, Cooperative learning, Authentic learning.
Participants will receive a copy of the Coaching for Engagement Workbook.
Individual Workshops
# SP2348302 LIVE Session | #SP2348303 VIRTUAL Session
April 4, 2023 - Better Leaders presented by Jim Knight
Better Leaders introduces participants to several high-yield leadership strate-
gies for first leading themselves and then leading others. In this workshop we
ask participants to think of themselves as change leaders—people who lead themselves (as well as other adults and students) through inevitable change by 1) gaining clarity on their goals, and 2) learning to navigate through the complexities of change.
Participants will receive a copy of the Better Leaders Workbook.
Individual Workshops
# SP2348304 LIVE Session | #SP2348305 VIRTUAL Session
***Important Note***
Due to book ordering and shipping, participants may not cancel after the first meeting.
- Participants in the LIVE sessions will receive their books the day of the workshop when they sign in.
- Books will be mailed to VIRTUAL participants prior to the workshop.
- Participants registered for the virtual sessions may not choose to attend the live session without significant notice.
- Participants enrolled in the 5-day institute will be billed the cost of the entire institute upon attendance at any of the workshops in the series.