Monday, October 19th 2026

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12th Annual ICIC Conference

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NIU Naperville

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Monday, October 19th 2026 ✦ 12th Annual ICIC Conference ✦ NIU Naperville ✦

About Us

The Illinois Council of Instructional Coaching is a group collective of coaches and administrators, from Pre-K to College, throughout the state of Illinois. We are dedicated to building the art of coaching to benefit teachers and students of all ages.

Misson

To support instructional coaches and advance instructional coaching

Vision

We are a community of instructional coaches who value collaboration, best practices, professionalism, research, and networking in order to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom through instructional coaching.

Instructional coaching is a direct support to classroom teaching and student learning, but most school districts do not have the capacity to provide specialized professional development for instructional coaches on their own. Our organization is vital because we provide the professional learning, networking, and shared resources that instructional coaches need in order to serve teachers effectively. Through our programs, coaches learn research-based strategies for supporting instruction, facilitating teacher reflection, using data, strengthening curriculum implementation, and improving classroom practice. Without this organization, many instructional coaches would have little or no access to role-specific professional development, limiting their ability to support educators and, ultimately, students. Our work therefore strengthens school instructional coaching programs by ensuring that coaches have the training, collaboration, and professional community necessary to improve teaching and learning across schools.

Save the Date for our 12th Annual Conference

Monday, October 19th, 2026

NIU in Naperville, IL featuring…

Douglas Fisher!

Doug Fisher is professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. A former early intervention and elementary teacher, he is credentialed in California as an English teacher and administrator. Inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame in 2022, he has authored numerous works on literacy, leadership, and curriculum design, including The Teacher Clarity Playbook (2nd ed.) and Welcome to Teaching!.

​Coaching Standards

We are in the process of developing Instructional Coaching Standards.
You can find our draft here.


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