Coaches AcademyGreat teachers become great coaches on purpose.
High-caliber teachers are often promoted into coaching without the training, tools or support to be effective. The Coaches Academy embeds Jim Knight’s Impact Cycle, Partnership Principles, and his Seven Success Factors in daily practice: our coaches shadow real coaching cycles, calibrate what proficient looks like, and use growth data to guide what comes next.
Identify. Learn. Improve. With a coach for the coach.
Scroll around the Impact Cycle. At each stage, the Academy is in the room with the coach, calibrating together and sharing feedback.
- Impact Cycle · Identify
Coaches learn to get a clear picture of reality.
Academy coaches shadow your coaches in real coaching cycles and calibrate on what proficient looks like as a coach and teacher agree on reality, a goal and a strategy.
- Impact Cycle · Learn
Teachers learn the strategy, from a true partner.
Coaches get personalized feedback on putting the Partnership Principles into day-to-day conversations, so teachers experience the coach as a partner.
- Impact Cycle · Improve
Growth data says what to coach next.
Coaches use growth data in GroweLab to see whether the goal is being met and decide the next move, with the Academy beside them as they adjust.
- And then
A program that lasts past its launch.
The Academy aligns your coaching systems, protocols and documentation to the Seven Success Factors, so the cycle keeps turning after the Academy ends.
Coaching as partnership, not evaluation.
Jim Knight’s seven Partnership Principles describe how a coach and a teacher work as equals. The Academy gives coaches personalized feedback on living them in everyday conversations.
- Equality
- Choice
- Voice
- Reflection
- Dialogue
- Praxis
- Reciprocity
Jim Knight is widely regarded as the founding father of instructional coaching.
The Institute first, then the Academy, inside a designed program.
- Network & Events
Instructional Coaching Institutes
The foundation: the Impact Cycle, the Partnership Principles and the Seven Success Factors.
- This page Performance Improvement
Coaches Academy
Institute learning embedded in daily practice, coach by coach.
- Planning & Design
Coaching System Design
The program, playbook and routines built with your coaches.
Coaching teachers want, and leaders who grow.
[e2L coaching] will walk you through how to get better, and what teacher doesn’t want to get better!
“It has definitely been a super-positive experience. Through engage2learn, we were able to provide an opportunity for our leaders to grow.”
Invest in the coaches who carry the cycle.
The Academy is the coaching step for your coaches. Our coaches work beside yours on the coaching skills an assessment or a coaching-system review points to, and connect them to peers who keep them growing.
- 01
Diagnose
The Coaching Effectiveness Assessment shows which coaching actions to strengthen.
Assessments & Software - 02
Design
Coaching System Design builds the program your coaches work inside.
Planning & Design - You are here 03
Coach
The Academy embeds the Impact Cycle and Partnership Principles in daily practice, measured in GroweLab.
Performance Improvement - 04
Connect to community
Coaches keep learning with peers in the Jim Knight Impact Network and at TLC.
Network & Events
Questions leaders ask.
Who should attend the Coaches Academy?
The Academy is for instructional coaches and specialists, especially high-caliber teachers promoted into coaching roles without the training, tools and support to be effective. It is personalized to each coach.
Do coaches need an Instructional Coaching Institute first?
Attending an Instructional Coaching Institute first is ideal, not required. The Academy is the natural next step after an institute, embedding that learning in daily practice.
What do coaches practice, and how is feedback given?
Coaches practice the Impact Cycle, Identify, Learn and Improve, and the Partnership Principles in real coaching conversations. Academy coaches shadow those cycles, calibrate on what proficient looks like at each stage, and give personalized feedback.
How is coach growth tracked?
Coach growth is tracked with growth data in GroweLab, so coaches and their leaders can see progress against the competencies the Academy focuses on.
How does the Academy fit with Coaching System Design?
The Coaching System Design builds the program with your coaches; the Coaches Academy works beside the coaches inside it. Together they align the coaches and the system to the Seven Success Factors.
Isn’t this just more workshops?
No. The Academy happens inside real coaching work, through shadowing, calibration and growth-data analysis, rather than in a workshop room.
Coaches who coach on purpose.
Tell us about your coaching team, how many coaches, how new, and what training they have had, and we’ll show you what the Academy would look like for them.
