The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improv

<strong><em>Jim Knight is one of the wise men of coaching. His well is deep; he draws from it the best tools from practitioners, the wisdom of experience, and research-based insights. And he never loses sight of the bigger picture: the point of all this is to have more impact in this life we&#8242;re lucky enough to live.</em></strong><br/> <strong> --MICHAEL BUNGAY STANIER, Author of <em>The Coaching Habit<br/> </em></strong><br/> <strong><em>Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance. Jim Knight's work has helped me understand the details of how effective coaching can and should be done.</em></strong><br/> <strong> --DR. ATUL GAWANDE, surgeon, public health researcher, and author of <em>The Checklist Manifesto</em><br/> <em><br/> </em></strong><br/> <strong>Identify . . . Learn . . . Improve<br/> </strong><br/> When it comes to improving practice, few professional texts can rival the impact felt by Jim Knight's<em> Instructional Coaching</em>. For hundreds of thousands of educators, Jim bridged the long-standing divide between staff room and classroom offering up a much a more collaborative, respectful, and efficient PD model for achieving instructional excellence.<br/> <br/> Now, one decade of research and hundreds of in-services later, Jim takes that work a significant step further with <em>The Impact Cycle</em> an all-new instructional coaching cycle to help teachers and, in turn, their students improve in clear, measurable