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The Impact Cycle

This instructional coaching course is delivered by GCI under our partnership agreement with Instructional Coaching Group (ICG).

Applying & Extending

12 Learning Hours

Enhance your.....

Coaching Skills Observation & Feedback Instructional Leadership Teaching Practice

Benefits

Understand the complexities of supporting change in instructional practice
Understand the principles that underpin productive partnerships with teachers
Different approaches to coaching to meet individual needs
An improvement cycle to help teachers sustain commitment towards student-centred goals
Effective and respectful ways to share instructional expertise and knowledge with teachers
Confidence to initiate and lead instructional coaching cycles with teachers
A model of instructional leadership

This course is for

Price

$890 (+ GST)

This price is for an individual registering on an open-enrolment course.

Savings are available for organisations who wish to run this course for an in-house group.

Please email info@growthcoaching.com.au to request a quote or discuss this further.

About Structure Learning Design Certification Pricing

About The Impact Cycle

Designed around the key themes of the book - The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching - the aim of this course is to support educators in establishing instructional coaching cycles that lead to improved teaching and student learning. The course is for anyone who works alongside teachers to help them develop their practice. The Impact Cycle also provides educational leaders with a model of instructional leadership that enables teacher agency.

Participants will explore the following questions:

What are the Partnership Principles and should I ground my coaching in them?
What should be my approach to coaching?
How do instructional coaches identify goals with teachers?
How should instructional coaches go about explaining and modelling teaching strategies?
How do coaches partner with teachers to make adaptations until goals are met?

Structure

Learning Design

Research-informed, Practitioner-focused is an important principle that underpins all our work at GCI, and this course is no exception.

The Impact Cycle instructional coaching course is the culmination of more than two decades of research on instructional coaching, communication and professional development by Dr Jim Knight and colleagues at The University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning

When we are engaged in praxis we are reflecting in action – taking what we are learning and applying it in real-life situations. Our in-person and online courses enable praxis through a ‘coaching approach’ to facilitation combined with a range of thoughtfully designed adult learning experiences including:

individual and group reflection activities
co-operative learning tasks
practice opportunities using real workplace scenarios
modelling
observation and feedback
debrief sessions

The Impact Cycle course is available in a range of delivery patterns:

Two full days (in-person)
Full days or six 2-hour workshops spread over a number of weeks (in-house groups online only)

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.

Certification

A GCI Certificate is issued to each individual completing this course.

Pricing

$890 (+ GST)

This price is for an individual registering on an open-enrolment course.

Savings are available for organisations who wish to run this course for an in-house group.

Please email info@growthcoaching.com.au to request a quote or discuss this further.

Your fee includes:

2-Day Workshop
Complimentary The Impact Cycle book
Complimentary The Impact Cycle Reflective Guide book

Register for upcoming The Impact Cycle workshops

Sydney

2 x 1 day workshop

03 Mar 2026 09:00 - 16:00

04 Mar 2026 09:00 - 16:00

Venue:

Venue details to be confirmed

Sydney CBD

Day 1: 03 March 2026, 09.00 - 16.00

Day 2: 04 March 2026, 09.00 - 16.00

$890 (+ GST)

Sydney

2 x 1 day workshop

11 Nov 2025 09:00 - 16:00

12 Nov 2025 09:00 - 16:00

Venue:

The Vibe Hotel

111 Goulburn Street

Sydney NSW 2000

Day 1: 11 November 2025

Day 2: 12 November 2025

$890 (+ GST)

Register Your Interest UK

If you would like to participate in one of our workshops, please complete this expression of interest form and a GCI staff member will be in contact with you to discuss suitable options.

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Brisbane

2 x 1 day workshop

03 Mar 2026 09:00 - 09:00

04 Mar 2026 09:00 - 16:00

Venue:

Venue details to be confirmed

Brisbane CBD

Day 1: 03 March 2026, 09.00 - 16.00

Day 2: 04 March 2026, 09.00 - 16.00

$890 (+ GST)

Hobart

2 x 1 day workshop

01 Sep 2025 09:00 - 16:00

02 Sep 2025 09:00 - 16:00

Venue:

Hadley's Orient Hotel

34 Murray Street

Hobart TAS 7000

Day 1: 01 September 2025, 09.00 - 16.00

Day 2: 02 September 2025, 09.00 - 16.00

$890 (+ GST)

If you would like to participate in one of our workshops and none of the scheduled dates are suitable, please complete this expression of interest form and a GCI staff member will be in contact with you to discuss suitable options

2-day workshop

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