Instructional Coaching for Enhancing Teaching Practice

Practical support for Senior and Middle Leaders to achieve powerful improvements in teaching and learning. You will learn how to strengthen the conversations with teachers and how to make observations purposeful to achieve positive shifts in teaching and learning practice and improve Professional Growth Cycle outcomes.

Dates and Locations
6 May & 7 May 2026 Auckland
10 Jun & 11 Jun 2026 Christchurch
Cost

$795 + GST pp (Auckland)

Your fee includes a copy of Jim Knight’s book The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching and The Impact Cycle Reflective Guide book

Cancellation Policy

Are you committed to empowering your teachers with the best strategies for success in the classroom? To seamlessly integrate professional learning and development (PLD) into their daily practices? This workshop is designed to equip you with practical tools and insights to drive continuous improvement in teaching and learning practices with teachers, within teams, and across the school.

You will learn how to spark quality conversations, unlock the secrets of effective observation, and how to roll out and sustain these practices within teams and Departments, and school-wide. You will have clarity about mastering the art of setting clear next steps, observation, modelling, practise and providing constructive feedback.

There are no pre-requisites for this workshop

Workshop Content:

  • The partnership principles and how to use them as a basis for coaching
  • How instructional coaches can work with teachers to identify the shifts in practice needed, and how to set meaningful and achievable goals and next steps
  • How coaches can partner with teachers to make adaptations until the goal and shifts in practice are embedded
  • How to carry out purposeful observations
  • How to go about explaining and modelling teaching strategies
  • What a school can do to support this work so that all teachers benefit

Designed around the key themes of Dr Jim Knight’s 2018 book, The Impact Cycle: What Instructional Coaches Should Do to Foster Powerful Improvements in Teaching, the programme has been tailored to meet the needs of NZ school leaders and teachers.



What others have said

“What an amazing 2 days of PLD that was. For me, it was the best PLD in my career so far - it has really invigorated and motivated me. A huge thanks to you and the team for the preparation and delivery of this.“
Lee-Anne Maxwell, Conifer Grove School
Associate Principal

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