Erasing the Lines in the Sand

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Failure to Norm

Gretchen Taylor

Gretchen Taylor watches her coaching unravel with a teacher, and slowly comes to realize that the problem is a lack of shared expectations.

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Breaking Away from the Team

Gretchen Taylor

Literacy coach Gretchen Taylor is stymied by a grade-level team with one dominant member. She needs to find creative ways to separate individual teachers from the "group-think" herd to guide and collaborate effectively.

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Getting Out of the Tater Tot Office: The Importance of Visibility

Gretchen Taylor

Gretchen Taylor ponders what literacy coaches can do to make their presence and the possibility of collaboration better known to teachers, focusing on her work in public spaces and on her coaching calender.