The Instructional Coaching Group, Jim Knight’s organization, is part of engage2learn.
Jim Knight is widely regarded as the founding father of instructional coaching. His organization brought the research, the network and the events that let a district keep learning after the coaching, and they now sit in the same cycle as engage2learn’s assessments, design and coaching.
- 30
- years of Jim Knight’s instructional coaching research, since 1996
- 150,000+
- instructional coaches trained through Jim Knight and the Instructional Coaching Group
The Instructional Coaching Group still offers its work under its own name at instructionalcoaching.com.
The research behind coaching, and the coaching itself.
engage2learn’s former district practitioners coach inside schools, on the skills an assessment named. The Instructional Coaching Group brings the research that defines what good coaching is, and the community where coaches and leaders keep growing.
- For coaches and leaders
Jim Knight’s work, inside a partnership
The Impact Cycle, the partnership principles and the seven success factors, built into how a district assesses, designs and coaches.
- For districts
Learning that continues after the coaching
The Jim Knight Impact Network and the events keep leaders working the same problems with peers, year after year.
The Network & Events pillar, and the coaches academy.
Each is now part of engage2learn’s catalog, and each connects to the rest of the cycle.
- Network & Events
Jim Knight Impact Network
An annual membership for principals, assistant principals, instructional coaches and district leaders: monthly workshops with Jim Knight and other experts, job-alike collaboratives, a members-only community and a GroweLab license.
See the Network - Network & Events
Teaching, Leading, Coaching Conference (TLC)
The national gathering for instructional coaches and the leaders who support them.
See how it works - Network & Events
Instructional Coaching Institutes
The foundational institutes on the Impact Cycle and the partnership principles.
See how it works - Performance Improvement
Coaches Academy
Great teachers become great coaches on purpose.
See how it works
Assess the coaching program, then build it.
- Assessments & Software
Coaching System Assessment
A gap analysis across all seven success factors.
- Planning & Design
Coaching System Design
The structures, playbook and routines that close the gaps.
- Performance Improvement
Coaches Academy
Coaches develop inside the system the design built.
30 years of learning alongside coaches.
Jim Knight’s instructional coaching research began in 1996. Over 150,000 instructional coaches have been trained through Jim Knight and the Instructional Coaching Group.
For more than three decades, I’ve had the privilege of learning alongside remarkable coaches, teachers, and school leaders whose ideas and commitment have shaped everything we do.
Coach, then connect to community.
The Instructional Coaching Group’s work lands on the last two steps of the cycle, and its research shapes the first two through the Coaching System Assessment and the Coaching System Design.
- 01
Diagnose
The Coaching System Assessment assesses a coaching program against seven success factors.
Assessments & Software - 02
Design
The Coaching System Design builds what the assessment found missing.
Planning & Design - You are here 03
Coach
The Institutes and the Coaches Academy are where coaches learn the Impact Cycle together.
Performance Improvement - You are here 04
Connect to community
The Jim Knight Impact Network and TLC keep coaches and leaders learning together.
Network & Events
Jim Knight’s research, inside your schools.
Tell us about your coaching program and your leaders, and we’ll show you where the Network, the Academy or a coaching system assessment would start.
