The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching: Seven Factors for Success

Author: Knight Jim

Number Of Pages: 224

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Even under ideal conditions, teaching is tough work. Facing unrelenting pressure from administrators and parents and caught in a race against time to improve student outcomes, educators can easily become discouraged (or worse, burn out completely) without a robust coaching system in place to support them.
For more than 20 years, perfecting such a system has been the paramount objective of best-selling author and coaching guru Jim Knight and his team of researchers at the Instructional Coaching Group (ICG). In The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching, Knight offers a blueprint for establishing, administering, and assessing an instructional coaching program laser-focused on every educator’s ultimate goal: the academic success of students.
Organized around ICG’s seven “Success Factors” for great instructional coaching, this book offers
* An in-depth guide to the Impact Cycle, ICG’s research-based and field-tested model for coaching teachers through issues that matter most to them;
* Detailed guidance on how to create a “playbook” of instructional strategies to share with collaborating teachers—and how to model those strategies under different conditions;
* Practical advice on preparing for and engaging in substantive, reflective, and teacher-centered coaching conversations;
* Best practices for gathering, analyzing, and responding to data for improved teaching and learning; and
* Real-life anecdotes and testimonies from educators and coaches who have reaped the benefits of the Impact Cycle in a diverse array of schools.
In addition, each chapter of the book contains a learning map to help orient you and a list of valuable additional resources to complement the text. Whether you’re new to coaching or well versed in the practice, The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching will no doubt prove a cornerstone of your coaching library for years to come.

Review

Anytime I see a book that tackles a complex matter, I pull out my three key criteria: conciseness (is it clear and specific), comprehensiveness (does it cover the waterfront), and mutual exclusiveness (does it avoid confusing overlap). And the winner is The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching! And, indeed, it is definitive. Beautifully written, elegantly simple, fabulously displayed. Coaching made powerful. If you are a coach (which should be just about all of us in education), read this book to find out more deeply who you are, what you do, and where you work. So readable, and inspiring!
—Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/University of Toronto
Jim Knight begins this book by acknowledging that its title suggests some hubris on his part, adding that he has taken great care to write a book that lives up to its title. In varied sources, experts are described as having extensive and meaningful experience in a domain, deriving successful intuition from that experience, having great breadth and depth of knowledge that contribute to profound understanding and ultimately to wisdom. Experts are said to be strategic—weaving what they know and understand into coherent systems, and communicating in ways that invite trust from those with whom they communicate. The author’s humanity, depth of knowledge insight, respectful communication, and systemic coherence quickly led me to realize that it is a definitive guide to virtually every form of leadership in schools and classrooms. It deserves an expansive readership!
—Carol Ann Tomlinson, EdD, William Clay Parrish, Jr. Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia
When Jim Knight writes a book that includes the words “definitive guide” in the title, educators should read it. Jim has combined his detailed knowledge of the science of coaching with his acute insights regarding the inner workings of schools, earned from decades of on-the-ground experience, to provide us with a comprehensive and transformational view of what coaching can and should be. The system Jim has laid out in his newest book is a mode

Release Date: 05-11-2021

Package Dimensions: 15x254x408