Instructional Coaching
The Instructional Coaching Institute
with Dr. Jim Knight
The Instructional Coaching Institute is a foundational course that equips coaches and administrators with the knowledge and tools to become effective coaching partners.
It provides essential professional learning grounded in all Seven Success Factors for building and sustaining a strong coaching program.
This course is for
- Instructional Coaches
- Educational Leaders
- System Leaders and Coaches
- Coaching Program Directors and Leaders
- Learning and Teaching Leaders
- Five-day workshop
- In person
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.
Further information
For full details of the Institute content, please visit The Instructional Coaching Group website.
What you will gain
Develop a deeper understanding of the instructional coaching process
Cultivate the necessary communication skills for healthy conversations
Deepen engagement in the classroom
Learn to 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
About Dr. Jim Knight
Often credited as the originator of the term ‘instructional coaching’, Jim Knight is Senior Partner of the Instructional Coaching Group (ICG) and a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning.
He has spent more than two decades studying professional learning and instructional coaching. He has written several books on instructional coaching including Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction (2007), Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach for Dramatically Improving Instruction (2011), High-Impact Instruction (2013), Focus on Teaching (2014), Better Conversations (2015), The Impact Cycle (2018), and The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching (2021).
Knight has also authored many articles on instructional coaching and professional learning in publications such as Educational Leadership, The Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, and Kappan. Jim earned his PhD in Education from the University of Kansas and has won several university teaching, innovation, and service awards. Knight also writes the Radical Learners blog.
In their words
These are from GCI’s participant survey, across their courses rather than this one.
Our facilitators
As a coaching organisation, we endeavour to model a ‘coaching way of being’ in our interactions with our clients by being:
- Respectful
- Humble
- Curious
- Strengths-focused
- Reflective
We encourage a culture of high expectations through our commitment to the ongoing development of our people based on mutual respect and collaboration. Our consultants are expert coach practitioners who draw on a wealth of educational experience to provide the highest level of service as coaches and trainers.
Fees and what is included
Your fee includes
- 5-day workshop
- Lunch and morning tea
- All books and resources mentioned (est. $650 value)
Register your interest
If you would like to explore offering this course to your own group, or would like to be notified when new dates are announced, please complete the form below. A member of the GCI team will be in touch.
