Dr Jim Knight

Speaker Summary

Jim Knight, Founder and Senior Partner of Instructional Coaching Group (ICG) is also a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. He has spent more than two decades studying professional learning and instructional coaching. Jim earned his PhD in Education from the University of Kansas and has won several university teaching, innovation, and service awards.

Areas of Expertise

Coaching – Leadership and Management – Professional Development

Full Profile

The pioneering work Jim and his colleagues have conducted has led to many innovations that are now central to professional development in schools. Jim wrote the first major article on instructional coaching for the Journal of Staff Development, as well as wrote a book titled Instructional Coaching in 2007. All of this work was the first extended description of instructional coaching.

Jim has written several books in addition to those described above, including; High-Impact Instruction (2013) and most recently The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching (2021).

Jim Knight has also authored articles on instructional coaching and professional learning in publications such as Educational Leadership, The Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, and Kappan. Jim is also a columnist for Educational Leadership.

Through Instructional Coaching Group, Knight conducts coaching workshops, hosts a new podcast titled “Coaching Conversations with Jim Knight,” and provides consulting for coaching programs around the world.

Publications
  • Unmistakable Impact (2011)
  • Better Conversations (2015)
  • The Impact Cycle (2018)

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