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107: Jim Knight | How To Have Better Conversations | Empower Teachers To Become Active Agents In Their Own Professional Development | What It Takes To Get People To Implement Good Practices | High Impact Instructional Coaching
September 12, 2016 by Educators Lead in Podcast
Jim Knight is the President of the Instructional Coaching Group and a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning and the Director of the Kansas Coaching Project. For nearly two decades, Jim has studied professional learning and instructional coaching and has served as the principal investigator of grants and contracts totaling nearly 30 million dollars. Jim has also written and co-authored several books, including: Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction, High-Impact Instruction: A Framework for Great Teaching, Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach for Dramatically Improving Instruction, Mentoring, Coaching, and Collaboration, Coaching: Approaches & Perspectives, Focus on Teaching: Using Video for High-Impact Instruction, and Better Conversations: Coaching Ourselves and Each Other to Be More Credible, Caring, and Connected.

Find out more about Jim’s High-Impact Instruction and Creating an Impact School workshops by visiting https://us.corwin.com/en-us/nam/consultant/jim-knight

 

When he was younger, Tom used to do a lot of mountain climbing.  So much, in fact, that in the Canadian Rockies there’s a route called Fall of Knight, named after the time Tom fell there and broke his femur (2:13)

Started out getting a bachelor’s and master’s in English, and then started working on a doctorate in English, then working in Special Education at a community college and making amazing progress with students who had failed repeatedly, which led to Jim choosing education as a career (4:48)

Frustrated by the fact that methods that have been proven to work weren’t being used, Jim became a Certified Professional Developer for the Strategic Instruction Model and began working with Michael Fullan, and decided to get a doctorate in education, and then developed the concept of Instructional Coaching  (6:45)

Jim gives a brief description of the Instructional Coaching model and how it works (10:10)

One of the most important takeaways from the Instructional Coaching model for principals is Responsible Accountability – teachers must be active agents in their own professional development (13:57)

School leaders must move their schools from a culture of talk to a culture of action (17:00)

Time is the biggest roadblock Instructional Coaches face (19:00)

The key to effecting long-term change is helping teachers find an emotionally compelling reason to invest in the change (22:17)

Goals should be PEERS Goals – Powerful, potentially Easy to achieve, Emotionally Compelling, Reachable, and Student-focused (24:30)

Focus on as many goals as you can, which is usually just one (27:33)

The Big Four: Planning, Assessment, Instruction, Community Building (28:41)

The Partnership Approach to working with teachers (29:30)

Jim’s book Better Conversations isn’t about clearly communicating a tough message, but about building a relationship where we can engage in dialogue, and where everyone feels their voice has been heard and everyone feels empowered by the dialogue (32:30)

If you want to improve your conversations, and become a better listener, you must not only practice, but practice while being videotaped and then review the tapes (38:00)

How to videotape your conversations (most people won’t mind) (39:00)

Most people simply aren’t aware of their poor conversation habits (43:10)

It’s better to work on improving your conversation skills with someone else who’s working toward the same goal (45:54)

Don’t let mistakes keep you from learning. When we stop learning, we stop living (49:40)

The crucial importance of establishing and respecting boundaries, and accepting that you can’t do it all (be selectively incompetent) (51:55)

Oddly enough, knowing your limitations can help you deal with feelings of not being up to the job, and knowing that you tend to be proud can keep you humble (56:05)

A great school leader is able to make complex things simple (1:02:12)

Several books that have had a big impact on Jim (1:03:11)

Educating students is all about having clarity on what students need to learn, what the success criteria are, whether they’ve hit the success criteria, and continually making adjustments along the way (1:05:40)

Teachers can’t trust you until they know you have their best interests at heart (1:07:07)

If Jim had a time machine, here’s the advice he would go back and give his younger self when he was just starting out in administration (1:08:20)

 

Books mentioned in this episode

Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization  by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work: Seven Languages for Transformation by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Leading in a Culture of Change Paperback by Michael Fullan

The Six Secrets of Change: What the Best Leaders Do to Help Their Organizations Survive and Thrive by Michael Fullan

Motion Leadership: The Skinny on Becoming Change Savvy by Michael Fullan

Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future by Margaret J. Wheatley

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brené Brown

Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help by Edgar H. Schein

Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen

Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest by Peter Block

Student Voice: The Instrument of Change by Russell J. (Joseph) Quaglia and Michael J. Corso

 

Connect with Jim Knight

@jimknight99

InstructionalCoaching.com

 

 

About EducatorsLead:

Educators Lead is a podcast created to help launch educators into the next level of leadership. This show is for you if you are interested in educational leadership as an assistant principal, principal, superintendent, teacher or someone who hopes to be a school leader one day. Educators Lead offers inspiration and practical advice to help you lead more effectively. Jay Willis interviews school leaders weekly to discuss why and when these educators made the decision to move into school leadership, challenges along the journey, and stories that made it all worthwhile. Educators Lead is a great resource for any educator looking to make a greater impact.

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