instructional coaching

Instructional coaching is meaningful and important work in our schools. Our goal at ICG is to provide tools and resources to help you to defend yourself against chaos and whim and to find more time to support...

Part of professional growth is learning new things every day. Educators must often adapt quickly to meet urgent needs of students, overcome unforeseen challenges, or sometimes follow countless surface-level...

Jim Knight and Michael Faggella-Luby’s article in the April 2022 issue of the Learning Forward Journal, The Learning Professional, confronts the negative associations many educators have with the word “data.”...

Summertime is just around the corner and if you’re anything like the educators we’ve spoken with you probably know exactly how many days are left in the school year! These next few months offer a great...

Jim Knight recently appeared on the Steve Barkley Ponders Out Loud podcast to discuss his new book, The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching: Seven Factors for Success. Jim and Steve discuss their history...

Instructional coaching has a lot of moving pieces. Not only do coaching partners have to manage countless resources, strategies, and relationships, but to successfully help teachers reach their own student-focused...

We are excited to announce this July marks the first in-person Intensive Instructional Coaching Institute since 2019! Hosted by Jim Knight, this 5-day intensive PD offering provides a big-picture view of...

There are a wide variety of tools an instructional coach can use when partnering with teachers, and each coaching partnership is unique in its needs, challenges, and the strategies used to achieve their goals. But...

Learning Forward recently hosted a webinar detailing the Coaching with Impact (CWI) research project for Title I middle schools being conducted with The American Institutes for Research (AIR) and the Instructional...

Click to register Instructional coaching positions and programs are often created quickly and with a sense of urgency, which usually means the question of how to evaluate coaches and coaching programs becomes an...

How we communicate with each other shapes the dynamics of our relationships as well as our ability to reach the goals we set. It’s important to go into a coaching partnership – or any relationship – with a...

“Students have forgotten how to be students.” The teacher looked at me from across the table, grabbed a section of the sushi roll in front of us with her chopsticks and raised it to her mouth. She paused while...

A couple weeks ago, Jim Knight tweeted that he was trying to round up all the great research on coaching, and he encouraged followers to share their dissertations or theses. The response has been incredible! Jim...

We are currently looking for new consultants to join the Instructional Coaching Group (ICG) team!   ICG is a small team of passionate, talented, and hardworking people who want to make a difference. It’s our...

The Instructional Coaching Group team is back in action after another powerful Teaching Learning Coaching Conference, and we want to thank everyone for making #TLC2021 one of the best conferences we’ve ever had!...

We’re often asked “Which workshop is the most important?” This is a tricky question to answer because the issues that stand out usually tend to vary from school to school, and district to district. However,...

Pexels   Everything in a school feels like a fire drill. Educators deal with so many issues and crises every minute of the day that it’s hard not to see the average school day as a series of one...