A coaching program that’s built to work, and proves it.
Coaches hired, a model chosen, and practice that still varies from room to room. engage2learn assesses the coaching system against Jim Knight’s Seven Success Factors, designs it with your leaders, works beside your coaches, measures the coaching, and connects your coaches to peers doing the same work.
Five stops on one line, across all four pillars.
A coaching program is built in order: assess the system, design it, develop the coaches, measure the coaching, and connect the coaches to peers. Start at the first stop, or wherever your program already is.
- AssessAssessments & Software Coaching System Assessment The program read against the Seven Success Factors.
- DesignPlanning & Design Coaching System Design Each weak factor built into the system.
- DevelopPerformance Improvement Coaches Academy Coaches growing in the Impact Cycle.
- MeasureAssessments & Software Coaching Effectiveness Assessment How well the coaching works, coach by coach.
- ConnectNetwork & Events Jim Knight Impact Network Coaches and leaders learning with peers.
And the cycle turns again
Five rungs down, from uneven coaching to a system that works.
Scroll down the ladder: from the outcome you see to the skill behind it, and back up to how you’ll know it moved.
From the outcome to the skill behind it
- The outcome you see
Coaches in every school, and practice that still varies.
The district hired coaches and chose a model. Some coaches move teachers; others are pulled into duties. Nobody can say what the program is producing.
- What the diagnosis looks at
The coaching system, factor by factor.
The Coaching System Assessment assesses the program against the Seven Success Factors, distilled from Jim Knight’s 30 years of research with over 150,000 instructional coaches.
- The plan
A system designed around what the assessment found.
Coaching System Design builds each weak factor: roles, time, the coaching process, data and the support leaders give.
- The coaching
Coaches growing in one model.
The Coaches Academy works with your coaches on the Impact Cycle and the Partnership Principles, inside real coaching cycles.
- How you’ll know it moved
The coaching itself, measured.
The Coaching Effectiveness Assessment shows how well the coaching is working, coach by coach, against a research-validated baseline.
Built on decades of coaching research.
- 30
- years of Jim Knight’s instructional coaching research, begun in 1996
- 150,000+
- instructional coaches trained through Jim Knight and the Instructional Coaching Group
- 10
- years of peer-reviewed research and five large-scale studies (Rutgers, ASU) behind the Coaching Effectiveness Assessment
Jim Knight is widely regarded as the founding father of instructional coaching.
Coaching built to be measured.
Dr. Reddy’s research is the base of the Coaching Effectiveness Assessment, the stop on the route where a program proves what its coaching is doing.
engage2learn was the only coaching organization we found that was already aligned to our research. We know the experts at engage2learn will be able to scale the impact of our validated assessment data insights and provide measurable results for schools.
Match your question to a stop on the route.
Most programs start at the assessment. Some are further along.
- If you’re sayingWe have coaches, but practice isn’t changing. Start withCoaching System Assessment
- If you’re sayingWe’re building a program from scratch. Start withCoaching System Design
- If you’re sayingOur coaches need training in one model. Start withCoaches Academy
- If you’re sayingWe need to know whether our coaching works. Start withCoaching Effectiveness Assessment
- If you’re sayingSomething that isn’t on this list. Start withAsk us. We’ll match the right engagement.
The whole cycle, aimed at your coaching.
Building a coaching program draws on all four steps of the cycle, each through a Jim Knight offering or a coaching assessment.
- You are here 01
Diagnose
The Coaching System Assessment and the Coaching Effectiveness Assessment read the program and the coaching.
Assessments & Software - You are here 02
Design
Coaching System Design builds each weak success factor.
Planning & Design - You are here 03
Coach
The Coaches Academy works with your coaches in the Impact Cycle.
Performance Improvement - You are here 04
Connect to community
The Jim Knight Impact Network keeps coaches and leaders learning with peers.
Network & Events
Questions leaders ask.
Where should a district start if a coaching program exists but practice is not changing?
Start with the Coaching System Assessment. It assesses the program against the Seven Success Factors and shows which ones are holding it back, so the work aims at the system rather than at individual coaches.
Do we need the assessment before the design?
It is the recommended start, because design then builds exactly the factors the assessment found weak. A district without an assessment can still begin design, which then starts from a review of the same seven factors.
How do we prove the coaching works?
The Coaching Effectiveness Assessment measures how well the coaching itself is working, coach by coach. It rests on ten years of peer-reviewed research and five large-scale studies from Rutgers and ASU, and coaching activity is recorded in GroweLab as it happens.
What does the Network add?
The Jim Knight Impact Network keeps coaches and the leaders who support them learning with peers after the build, in monthly workshops and role-specific collaboratives, so the program keeps improving rather than settling.
Build the program your coaches deserve.
Tell us where your coaching program stands, from first hires to a decade in, and we’ll show you which stop on the route comes next.
