The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching: Seven Factors for Success -- Jim

<p><strong>Even under ideal conditions, teaching is tough work. Facing unrelenting pressure from administrators and parents and caught in a race against time to improve student outcomes, educators can easily become discouraged (or worse, burn out completely) without a robust coaching system in place to support them.</strong> <p>For more than 20 years, perfecting such a system has been the paramount objective of best-selling author and coaching guru Jim Knight and his team of researchers at the Instructional Coaching Group (ICG). In <em>The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching, </em> Knight offers a blueprint for establishing, administering, and assessing an instructional coaching program laser-focused on every educator's ultimate goal: the academic success of students.<p>Organized around ICG's seven Success Factors for great instructional coaching, this book offers<p>* An in-depth guide to the Impact Cycle, ICG's research-based and field-tested model for coaching teachers through issues that matter most to them;<br>* Detailed guidance on how to create a playbook of instructional strategies to share with collaborating teachers--and how to model those strategies under different conditions;<br>* Practical advice on preparing for and engaging in substantive, reflective, and teacher-centered coaching conversations;<br>* Best practices for gathering, analyzing, and responding to data for improved teaching and learning; and<br>* Real-life anecdotes and testimonies from educat