The Instructional Coaching Institute

What is the Instructional Coaching Institute?

The Instructional Coaching Institute is the comprehensive course that gives coaches and leaders everything they need to know to become successful coaching partners. The Institute is an essential professional development opportunity for developing and sustaining a successful coaching program in your context. It provides a big-picture view of instructional coaching and a comprehensive learning opportunity covering the key topics presented in Jim Knight’s bestselling books and research:

• The Impact Cycle
• Better Conversations
• Coaching for Engagement
• Coaching for Achievement
• Evaluating Instructional Coaching
• System Support

This unique learning opportunity helps coaches, mentors and leaders not only establish a proven foundation for success, but also develop a deeper and complete understanding of the instructional coaching process and practices, cultivate the necessary communication skills for healthy conversations, deepen engagement in the classroom, and best utilise coaching tools and resources.

Resources Provided

Participants will receive a participant guide along with the following books by Dr. Jim Knight:

• The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching (2021)
• Better Conversations book & reflection guide (2015)
• The Impact Cycle book & reflection guide (2017)
• The Instructional Playbook (2019)
• High-Impact Instruction (2012)
• Evaluating Instructional Coaching (2021)
• Data Rules (2024)
• IC Toolkit

Further Information

For full details of the Institute content, please visit The Instructional Coaching Group website.