Content Category: Lead Literacy
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Have Coach, Will Travel
I have a confession to make: I secretly pine for the beautiful literacy coaches' spaces that I see on social media and wish that I could re-create them for the...
Supporting Teachers in Planning an Interactive Read Aloud
Fourth- and fifth-grade teachers have a change in their schedule this year that allows them an additional 30 minutes of literacy time each day, separate from their reading and writing...
Coaching Debrief: Interactive Read Aloud
Jen Court debriefs with second-grade teacher Logan about the interactive read aloud demonstration she just completed in his classroom, as well as how it fits into their instructional plans.
Listen to Lead
I could tell the teacher had organized the classroom library without student input. It had all the telltale signs: Pinterest-perfect labels on the book bins Colored stickers on the spines...
Followership
I was sitting down with one of our teachers for his final summative meeting as part of his evaluation. In my office, he showed on his laptop a digital rendering...
Kindergarten Small Group: Details in Writing
Clare Landrigan leads a demonstration small group on including details in writing. The demonstration includes a prebrief and debrief with the teacher.
Coaching in PLCs
In our last fourth-grade PLC meeting we had tackled the first two questions, “What do we want students to learn?” and “How will we know they learned it?” Standards had...
Defining Standards Before a Demonstration Lesson
In this video from a third-grade lesson study, Jason DiCarlo works with teachers and specialists to define standards before a demonstration lesson.
Coaching Minute: New Coaches and Principals
Principal Lee Snider talks about the importance of being intentional in integrating new coaches into the school community.
Student Moves
Students move in and out of our schools all the time. Families are transient, and their kids go with them—down the street, across town, across the state, across the country....
There You Are
If you live near deciduous trees, you've probably seen, when the leaves fall, squirrels’ nests lodged high in a V formed where a large branch meets a tree’s trunk. Every...
Book Talks Go Digital
What’s the first thing you do after you turn the last page of your book? I usually sit in silence for a few moments and soak in the lessons I’ve...
Crafting Action Plans with Teachers
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. —African Proverb Often as an English learners instructional coach, I get invited to observe...
Coaching Minute: Good Communication Between Coaches and Principals
Principal Lee Snider talks with literacy coach Lora Bieghler about developing a rapport when a coach is new to the building.
How Do Literacy Leaders Supervise and Support Online Instruction?
In our district, we have been talking about reentry in the fall for months now. How many kids can we physically have in the school? Will students need to wear...
Establishing Trust
The teacher and I had met about the second-grade student a handful of times, had had various hallway conversations, and had exchanged more emails than I could remember, but it...
Prioritizing Presence
I was so excited to be invited to a coaching cycle with Angie. Angie was a strong teacher, the quiet leader type, who was respected by peers and who just...
Developing Literacy Traditions and Rituals
On Saturdays during the spring, summer, and fall, my family and I like to go to the farmers’ market. It’s just down the street at the city park, one block...
Coaching Minute: Cycle Forms
Jean Russell explains the importance of establishing norms and a framework for coaching cycles. You can access the documents she mentions below the player. Here is a copy of Jean's...
Home Language Is Love Language
There is the memory, as if it were yesterday: having brunch with a graduate school classmate, seated on an outdoor patio on a gorgeous Sunday morning in late spring. I...
Demonstration Small Group: Nathan Hale and Point of View
Tammy Mulligan leads a demonstration small group for fifth graders using a graphic novel to teach point of view.
