From Worksheets to Workshops

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Learning How to Communicate: From Teacher to Coach

Gretchen Taylor

Gretchen Taylor weeds through old teaching files in her early days as a literacy coach and finds a common theme in both roles: the tendency to send overly long emails and notes.

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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.