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| The Impact of Instructional Coaching How Leadership Can Support the Role |
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If you’re an instructional coach - or you’re considering stepping into the role - you’ve probably faced the question: what exactly do you do?
It’s a fair question. Instructional coaching is a relatively new profession in schools, and its impact can be profound when done right. But for that to happen, we need to understand what coaching truly is - and what it isn’t. |
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The Instructional Coaching Done Well Roadshow 2026 |
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Stopping in Auckland, Sydney, Hobart & Melbourne
Instructional Coaching Done Well - what does it look like?
Based on 30+ years of research by Jim Knight, discover how to create a sustainable, impactful instructional coaching program that really works in the short and long term across 2 practical days.
Designed for leaders and educators interested in improving learning, engagement, and teaching in their unique context, participants will explore a research-backed, evidence-informed blueprint for implementing instructional coaching effectively - now and into the future in their school.
Bring your leadership team or instructional coaches along for a shared learning experience! |
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Teaching Leading Coaching Conference 2026 |
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The Teaching, Leading, Coaching Conference (TLC) returns this year in Dallas Texas, marking a truly significant milestone. This year, we celebrate 30 years of Jim Knight’s pioneering research in Instructional Coaching - work that has shaped how educators collaborate, learn and grow together for decades.
TLC 2026 honours this remarkable legacy while looking ahead to the future of coaching practice and its impact in schools.
Secure your place below - either in person of virtually! |
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The Ripple Effect : Transforming School Cultures One Conversation at a Time |
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Auckland, New Zealand — 7 August 2026 |
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The Ripple Effect explores how just one coaching conversation can shift thinking, shape behaviour, and foster a culture of trust, collaboration, and professional growth. This one-day conference highlights the power of a coaching way of being and how it influences every interaction within a school community.
Discover more by clicking below!
Hosted and delivered by our partners at The Education Group. |
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The Impact Cycle inAction |
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Melbourne - 7 - 9 October 2026 |
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The Impact Cycle in Action returns in 2026!
This is the only coaching course where you can experience the reality of coaching in a real school environment.
This practical 3-day workshop is designed for leaders, teachers, and instructional coaches who want to explore The Impact Cycle and see it in action over the course of three days. Each day will incorporate a variety of classroom visits, coaching demonstrations, coaching practice, strategies to implement coaching and ‘Ask Me Anything’ sessions with current instructional coaches and leaders.
Proudly delivered in partnership with the Crowther Centre at Brighton Grammar School. |
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Coaching in Education Podcast |
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CoachED Conversations
System Support: How do we set up coaches for success?
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Have you ever wondered why some coaching programs thrive while others fizzle out?
In this episode, we’ll explore what it takes to set coaches up for success in schools. By focusing on clarity around coaching roles and the necessity of support systems, we can ensure that coaching isn’t just another fleeting initiative, but a sustainable priority.
Join Richard Reid and Dan Steele as they share their expertise on this vital topic. |
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Stories from the Coaches with Ange Miezitis
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What if one of the most powerful leadership skills is simply learning to notice? |
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In this new episode, host Richard Reid speaks with Ange Miezitis about leadership, wellbeing and the importance of slowing down enough to truly see what matters.
Drawing on over three decades of experience in education, Ange shares how the practice of noticing helped her nurture strengths in others, make more intentional decisions and create space for meaningful coaching conversations.
A thoughtful episode for anyone interested in coaching, mindful leadership and building healthier learning cultures. |
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Fostering Dialogue: Turning Conversations into Learning
When we talk about improving schools, we often focus on strategies, structures, and systems. But improvement ultimately depends on something far more fundamental: the quality of our conversations.
In Better Conversations, Jim Knight describes dialogue as a learning conversation. Dialogue is different from debate, persuasion, or simple exchange of information. In dialogue, we are not trying to win. We are not trying to prove a point. Instead, we are trying to think together. |
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Coaching Accreditation Program |
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Designed for educators by educators, the Coaching Accreditation Programprovides comprehensive training for educators in the skills, conversational frameworks, and "way of being" of coaching.
Delivered ONLINE by leading experts in the field, this course provides a pathway to industry recognised coaching credentials with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). |
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Commencement dates below |
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| | Growth Talk: Managing “Got a Minute?” Conversations |
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Conversation is at the heart of learning and leading.
This course explores a common leadership moment: the spontaneous “got a minute?” conversation. These unscheduled corridor chats or knocks on the door aren’t in your calendar and leave no time to prepare, yet they offer powerful opportunities to support thinking, progress, and learning in the moment.
Over a highly practical day participants will explore how to bring shape to impromptu other-initiated conversations; the key skills that fuel learning conversations; and how to show up in ways that best support the thinking and progress of our colleagues. |
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Introduction to Leadership Coaching |
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| Are you or your team new to coaching, and curious where to start?
Experience leadership coaching with hands-on practice, feedback, and collaborative learning with the 2-day Introduction to Leadership Coachingcourse.
Gain confidence and competence in using the 3 elements of coaching - the GROWTH framework, key coaching skills, and Way of Being - to foster a culture of growth, improvement, and excellence within your educational community. |
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| "This course has given me lots to think about, lots of new strategies and skills to try, and more confidence in evidence based best practice when having effective coaching conversations.” |
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"A very enjoyable and practical course that I have already begun using straight away. It clarified how to maintain a coaching conversation whilst still offering ideas ” |
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The Impact Cycle 2-day course is designed to support educators in establishing instructional coaching cycles that lead to improved teaching and student learning.
The course is for anyone who works alongside teachers to help them develop their practice. |
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Managing Challenging Conversations |
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| Do you find yourself avoiding difficult conversations - even when you know they need to happen?
The Managing Challenging Conversations 1-day course is designed for leaders and managers who want to enhance their confidence, skills, and understanding to engage in these conversations in ways that maintain high expectations alongside constructive relationships. |
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| "The skills and tools I’ve learned to be clear and concise in my messaging when having challenging conversations - I loved how much time we had to reflect on ourselves and our position in conversations.”
Hannah Simmons, Kororoit Creek Primary School VIC |
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Exploring the Seven Success Factors of Instructional Coaching |
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How can we make instructional coaching effective?
For over 20 years, Dr Jim Knight has researched instructional coaching and collaborated with over 150,000 instructional coaches. From this work, we have distilled his findings into Seven Success Factors that are critical for instructional coaching to work.
During this 1-day course, you will explore the Seven Success Factors as a blueprint for establishing, administering, and assessing an effective instructional coaching program that is laser-focused on every educator’s ultimate goal: the success of students. |
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Using AI in Instructional Coaching: Best Practices and Tools |
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This course dives into how AI tools can amplify instructional and peer coaching by enhancing- not replacing - human connection.
You’ll explore AI-driven coaching scenarios, mastering effective prompts for lesson analysis, strategy development, and goal setting.
Practical activities will guide you through using AI to identify instructional adaptations and refine teaching approaches. |
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Complimentary Professional Learning |
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| | What does it actually take to embed coaching across an entire organisation - and make it stick?
In this webinar, Ben Calleja - Director of Growth Coaching International in WA, SA & NT - sits down with Nancy McNally, Principal of Alkimos College in Perth, to explore exactly that.
Nancy has worked with GCI for many years, leading the rollout of coaching across three schools - so she speaks from real experience. |
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