Product Description: Every worthwhile book has a deeply held belief, and for Jim Knight’s Better Conversations and this worktext, The Reflection Guide to Better Conversations, here it is:  “Effective communication is an essential skill for a fulfilled life, and we can’t teach it to students if we don’t know how to do it ourselves...read more

Product Description: Check out The Better Conversations trailer: https://youtu.be/y3FrWTXC8Uw “I thought I knew how to have a conversation; I’ve had millions of them.  Some were good, others not so much so. But I want to have GREAT conversations, and Jim Knight has taught me how...read more

Product Description: In Better Conversations, Jim Knight reveals why true dialogue improves professional performance, job satisfaction, and classroom instruction. Together with The Reflection Guide to Better Conversations, the two books provide a brilliant, scaffolded professional learning experience on a topic central to learning, central to life...read more

Product Description:   Provide targeted professional development on the “nuts and bolts” of instructional coaching! Designed to complement the best-selling book, this comprehensive multimedia presentation provides staff developers with the necessary materials to demonstrate the principles of a partnership approach for coaching teachers to improve classroom instruction...read more

Practical guidelines for selecting the right type of coaching for your teachers and students! This resource brings together the voices of recognized experts in the field—including Joellen Killion, Cathy Toll, Jane Ellison, Randy Sprick, Jane Kise, Karla Reiss, Lucy West, and Jim Knight—to present unique approaches for coaching teachers and leaders. Chapters review the roles of coaches in schools, examine the research base on coaching, and provide in-depth discussions of specific models, including: Literacy coaching  Cognitive coaching  Instructional coaching  Content-focused coaching  Classroom management coaching  Leadership coaching

Explains the basics of instructional coaching, details the essential skills that are needed by instructional coaches, and includes discussion of such topics as getting teachers on board, providing model lessons, and engaging in reflective conversations.

Product Description: Revision of a text on civil procedure first published by Professor James in 1965. An explanatory companion for the basic law school course in civil procedure. Covers the matters included in most casebooks on the subjects, which in most law school curricula is the foundation course for procedure in general, including criminal procedure and administrative agency adjudication...read more

Product Description: First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Faced with a growing administrative workload and responsibility for a variety of extra-curricula activities, many teachers find themselves in situations where they need to delegate tasks to colleagues. This book provides a step-by-step guide to the skills needed to do this effectively...read more

Product Description: Book by Knight, Jim