Dr. 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.
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 about
instructional coaching for the Journal of Staff Development, and
his book Instructional Coaching (2007) offered the first extended
description of instructional coaching. Jim’s book Focus on Teaching
(2014) was the first extended description of how video should be
used for professional learning. Recently, writing with Ann Hoffman,
Michelle Harris, and Sharon Thomas, Jim introduced the idea of
instructional playbooks with their book on that topic.
Jim has written several books in addition to those described above,
including Unmistakable Impact (2011), High-Impact Instruction
(2013), Better Conversations (2015), The Impact Cycle (2018), and
The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching (2021). 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 and.
Through ICG, Knight conducts coaching workshops, hosts the Facebook
Live Program, “Coaching Conversations,” and provides consulting for
coaching programs around the world.
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