Instructional coaching practices that build partnerships with teachers to bring real change in the classroom

Webinar topics:

• How to foster a commitment to change
• Specific communication strategies to build healthy relationships with teachers
• Inviting teachers to join in a partnership with you through one-on-one interview or group presentations
• How to have a successful "first conversation" with a teacher
• Seeing a new practice through the teacher's eyes and anticipating the consequences in the classroom
• When is it appropriate and inappropriate for coaches to model a lesson in the classroom
• Co-constructing an observation form with the teacher
• How to make sure the teacher is noticing what's important in your model lesson
• How to engage in a "language of ongoing regard"
• Collaborative exploration of data
• Best practices used by coaches across the country

About the speaker: Jim Knight has spent more than a decade studying instructional coaching and has written several books on the topic including Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction(2007). His newest book is Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach to Dramatically Improving Instruction. Both books are co-published by Corwin Press & the National Staff Development Council (now Learning Forward). President of the Instructional Coaching Group, and a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning, Jim has also co-authored Coaching Classroom Management and edited Coaching: Approaches and Perspectives./

Jim has directed an Institute of Education-funded qualitative and quantitative assessment of coaching and worked with the Topeka Kansas School District on Pathways to Success, a district-wide school reform project. Jim also leads the coaching institutes and the Annual Instructional Coaching Conference offered by the University of Kansas. Jim has presented and consulted in most states, most Canadian provinces, India, the United Kingdom, and Japan. He has a Ph.D. in Education and has won several university teaching, innovation, and service awards.