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

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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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From Worksheets to Workshops

Gretchen Taylor

A teacher asks first-year literacy coach Gretchen Taylor to observe and help with a disengaged student. Gretchen discovers in her observation that the issue may be that the literacy curriculum needs an update.

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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.