Teaching, Leading, Coaching Conference (TLC)The annual in-person gathering where coaches, leaders and teachers learn from one another as partners.
Every session draws on Jim Knight’s research, and you leave with practices to bring back to your school. Network members attend at a discount.
It’s not too late for TLC 2026.
Register for 2026 Virtual Attendance and watch the conference on demand, on your own schedule.
The name is the agenda.
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Teaching
What you take homePractices you can bring back to a classroom, and the language to coach them.
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Leading
What you take homeHow principals and district leaders build the conditions where coaching takes hold, school by school.
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Coaching
What you take homeJim Knight’s coaching methods, built on 30 years of research, from the Impact Cycle to the conversations that change practice.
Coaches and teachers, and the leaders behind them.
Every year, district and school leaders fill the room alongside them, because coaching takes hold only where leaders build the conditions for it.
- District leaders
- Superintendents
- Chief academic officers
- Directors of curriculum and instruction
- Directors
- Supervisors
- School leaders
- Principals
- Assistant principals
- Coordinators
- Curriculum coordinators
- Subject matter coordinators
- Special education coordinators
- Professional learning coordinators
- Coaches and specialists
- Instructional coaches
- Instructional specialists
- Curriculum specialists
- Subject matter specialists
- Professional learning specialists
- Program specialists
- Classrooms
- Teachers
Three ways to act now.
Registration runs through the Instructional Coaching Group. Here is where to start, depending on what you need.
- If you wantThis year’s dates, location and speakers. Go toTLC on instructionalcoaching.com
- If you wantThe member discount, and a year of learning around it. Go toJim Knight Impact Network
- If you wantSomething sooner, a foundation for your coaches. Go toInstructional Coaching Institutes
Once a year, the whole community.
TLC is the widest ring of the community step: the people working the same problems all year, in one room once a year.
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Diagnose
The assessment names the educator skills behind the gap, school by school.
Assessments & Software - 02
Design
The plan prioritizes those skills, with an owner and a measure for each.
Planning & Design - 03
Coach
Former district practitioners coach those skills inside your schools.
Performance Improvement - You are here 04
Connect to community
Coaches and leaders gather in person at TLC, and keep learning together all year in the Network.
Network & Events
Questions leaders ask.
Who should attend the Teaching, Leading, Coaching Conference (TLC)?
TLC is for every leader who makes educators effective, not only coaches and teachers. Superintendents, chief academic officers, directors of curriculum and instruction, principals and assistant principals, coordinators and specialists attend every year alongside instructional coaches and teachers, and teams that come together bring home a shared language for coaching and feedback.
Can I still attend TLC 2026 if I missed it in Dallas?
Yes. 2026 Virtual Attendance gives on-demand access to TLC 2026, and registration is open on the Instructional Coaching Group’s site.
When and where is it held?
TLC is held once a year, in person. The Instructional Coaching Group announces each year’s dates, location and speakers on its TLC page.
Do Network members get a discount?
Yes. Discounted access to TLC is included in both Jim Knight Impact Network memberships, individual and school-wide.
How do I get notified when registration opens?
Registration details are posted on the Instructional Coaching Group’s TLC page. To plan a district team’s attendance alongside other work, book a conversation with engage2learn.
See you at TLC.
Dates, location and registration are on the Instructional Coaching Group’s TLC page. Network members register at a discount.
