KU Center for Research on Learning

KU Center for Research on Learning




Speaker Bio - Jim Knight

Jim Knight is a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. He has spent more than a decade studying instructional coaching, writing two books on the topic: Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction, published by Corwin Press & NSDC, and Coaching Classroom Management, written with Randy Sprick, Wendy Reinke, and Tricia McKale and published by Pacific Northwest Press. Jim’s articles on instructional coaching have been included in publications such as The Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, and Teachers Teaching Teachers. Jim directs several research projects, including Pathways to Success, a comprehensive, district-wide school reform project in the Topeka, Kan., school district. Jim also leads the coaching institutes and annual instructional coaching conference offered by the University of Kansas. Jim is frequently asked to guide professional learning for instructional coaches and has presented and consulted in more than 40 states, most Canadian provinces, and in Japan. He also has won several university teaching, innovation, and service awards.




Description

Jim Knight presented, “Are You a Radical Learner?” at the 2010 Instructional Coaching Conference.

Here is a description of his presentation:
Our schools can be saved by educators who live to learn. This new group, people I call radical learners, is emerging in schools all across the world. They are people who are driven by learning, people who get up in the morning fired up to try something new, to make a difference, to teach and learn. In this session Jim will introduce the radical learner idea, suggest some ways anyone can promote radical learning, and share some exciting ways people can encourage radical learning right now today in their schools.