Jim Knight is a founding senior partner of ICG and a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning (KUCRL). He has spent more than two decades studying professional learning, effective teaching, and instructional coaching. Knight has written several books, and his 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. 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.