Jim Knight

Jim Knight is a founding senior partner of the Instructional Coaching Group and a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. He has spent more than two decades studying professional learning, effective teaching, and instructional coaching.

Knight has written numerous books, including The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching: Seven Factors for Success and Data Rules: Elevating Teaching with Objective Reflection (coauthored by Michael Faggella-Luby). His articles on instructional coaching have been included in publications such as Educational Leadership, The Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, and Teachers Teaching Teachers.

He directs Pathways to Success, a comprehensive, districtwide school reform project in the Topeka, Kansas, School District and leads the Intensive Instructional Coaching Institutes and the Teaching Learning Coaching annual conference.