Event Phone: (916) 443-8400

For the past twenty years, Jim Knight and his colleagues have been identifying and validating best practices for instructional coaches.  This November in Sacramento, we are excited to host a special five-day coaching institute, made up of three different workshops: An Overview of Instructional Coaching, What Principals Need to Know About Coaching, and Coaching for Positive Behavior presented by Jim and Randy Sprick.  Participants can attend one, two, or, all three workshops to deepen their knowledge of effective beliefs and strategies for coaching.   

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Instructional Coaching: An Introduction to the Essential Beliefs, Skills, and Habits

Instructional coaches have the potential to have an unmistakably positive impact on how teachers teach and students learn. However, if coaches are going to be effective, they need to know how to be a coach.

For more than two decades, Jim Knight and his research colleagues in Kansas have been working to identify best practices for instructional coaching. The result is the publication of two books: The Impact Cycle (Knight, 2017), a simple and powerful way coaches can help teachers improve teaching to improve student learning and Better Conversations (Knight, 2015), a description of the communication beliefs and habits coaches should employ to foster powerful, learning relationships.

In this session, participants will learn and practice the communication beliefs and habits and the coaching strategies that have identified as critical for coaching. Participants will learn how to implement the identify, learn, and improve components of the impact cycle, receive free tools to use while coaching, be given access to many videos illustrating the entire cycle described in The Impact Cycle. Additionally, participants will learn essential strategies they can imploy to improve how they listen, question, find common ground, foster trust, and engage in dialogue.

This session will provide foundational skills for coaches at any stage in their development and for administrators who oversee coaches and coaching programs.

Presenter: Jim Knight

Dates: November 12 & 13, 2018

Resources Provided: The Impact Cycle, The Impact Cycle Reflection Guide, Better Conversations, The Better Conversations Reflection Guide.

Fee: $650.00 for the November 12 & 13 session on Instructional Coaching: An Introduction to the Essential Beliefs, Skills, and Habits.
(Fee for the entire five days of the coaching institute November 12-15, 2018 is $1,600.)

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What Principals Need to Know About Coaching

 

Principal support is one of the most important factors leading to the success or failure of coaching. When principals support coaches, and coaching is done well, coaches will have an unmistakably positive impact on students’ lives. When principals fail to support coaches, however, even if coaching is done well, coaches will struggle to have an impact. For that reason, one of the most important factors leading to coaching success is that principals learn some fundamentals strategies for providing support.

This workshop provides information on simple but important actions principals should take to support coaches and guides coaches and principals through a series of discussions so that, together, they can make decisions that will lead to dramatic improvements in children’s learning and lives.

We suggest that principals and coaches attend this session together.

Topics Include

• Identifying district and school top priorities for professional learning
• Eliminating role ambiguity by clarifying what coaches should and should not do
• Organizing and prioritizing how coaches use their time,
• Determiningg what policies should exist regarding teacher confidentiality,
• Identifying how coaches and principals can partner to enroll teachers in coaching,
• Developing strategies for addressing teachers who may resist change,
• Other important topics.

Presenter: Jim Knight

Date: November 14, 2018

Resources Provided: All participants receive a copy of Jim Knight’s Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach for Dramatically Improving Instruction, a Workshop Participant Guide, and additional tools and resources.

Fee: $350.00 for the November 14 session on What Principals Need to Know About Coaching.
(Fee for the entire five days of the coaching institute November 12-15, 2018 is $1,600.)

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Instructional Coaching for Positive Behavior

When teachers struggle to manage behavior in their classrooms, their students lose important learning opportunities, and teachers themselves too often lose the motivation to teach. Therefore, effective instructional coaches need to have the knowledge and skills necessary to guide teachers toward more effective behavior management in classrooms.

In this session, offered for the first time in California, behavior management expert Randy Sprick, and instructional coaching expert Jim Knight, are partnering to offer a two-day deep study of what instructional coaches need to know about classroom management, and how coaches should share that knowledge with teachers.

Topics to be addressed in this two-day session include:

• How video can be used by coaches with teachers to get a clear picture of reality in classrooms and to monitor progress toward goals
• How coaches can set student behavior goals with teachers
• The most important student behavior data that coaches should gather with students
• The highest-impact teaching strategies coaches should share with teachers so they can manage behavior effectively
• Strategies coaches can use to help teachers learn new strategies
• Strategies instructional coaches can use to help teachers make adaptations until goals are met.

Presenters: Randy Sprick and Jim Knight

Dates: November 15 & 16, 2018

Resources Provided: Coaching Classroom Management (Sprick, Knight, Reinke, Skyles, and Barnes, 2010) and Focus on Teaching (Knight, 2014). Please note participants who do not attend the November 12 & 13 sessions may exchange Focus on Teaching for The Impact Cycle and The Impact Cycle Reflection Guide if they wish.

Fee: $650.00 for the November 15-16, 2018 session on Coaching for Positive Behavior.
(Fee for the entire five days of the coaching institute November 12-15, 2018 is $1,600.)

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Location:

The Westin Sacramento
4800 Riverside Blvd.  Sacramento, CA 95822
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Dates:

These workshops are limited to 100 participants. Please double check for availability before making travel arrangements.

Date to be announced.

Times:

Monday to Friday 8:30 – 4:00; B

Meals:

Breakfast, lunch, and snacks are provided

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