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Coaching Minute: Personalizing Assessment Binders
Kathy Provost and Heather Fisher chat about the challenges of getting teachers to use assessment binders, and the importance of helping teachers tailor the binders to their needs.
Good Intentions Gone Wrong
“Oh please, don’t do that!” As soon as the words were out of my mouth, I knew I shouldn’t have said them. It was early Friday morning before school, and...
Finding Evidence in Texts
In this demonstration lesson, Tammy Mulligan confers with fourth grader Hailey, helping her hone her develop skills in finding textual evidence. The lesson includes a prebrief and debrief with the...
Empowering Teachers to Share: Leading More Powerful Professional Development Sessions
When our new puppy, Kate, joined our family of six, it was a little chaotic. Everyone wanted to teach Kate something. Hannah wanted her to sit and listen while she...
Changing Two Words
Teachers can position children as competitors or collaborators, and themselves as referees, resources, or judges, or in many other arrangements. A teacher's choice of words, phrases, metaphors, and interaction sequences...
Coaching Conversations: Carry the Water
In this audio interview, Susan Kennedy chats with Brenda Power about the challenges of starting a new coaching position in a different part of the country, and building relationships with...
Empowering the Reading Team
One of our district goals this year is to give our paraprofessionals more in-depth training in some of the work we are asking them to do with our learners who...
Guiding Reading Specialists to Lead Professional Development
In this video, Kathy Provost meets with reading specialists to plan professional development for paraprofessionals. She explains the importance of surveying participants.
Professional Development and Personality Types
The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world. Toni Collette As leaders and coaches the biggest and most important part of our...
Grade Three Writing Checklist
Tammy Mulligan uses a checklist with third-grade writers in this demonstration lesson. The lesson includes a planning session and debrief with the teacher.
Coaching Notetaking Skills
A few weeks ago, I was in a fourth-grade classroom as the teacher taught a lesson on notetaking. Listening to her, watching the students approximate what she was doing, and...
Poetry for Notetaking
On most days when I enter Katie Czerwinski’s sixth-grade classroom, I take out my trusty notebook and pen and pull up a chair beside a student or settle into a...
Hiring for Literacy: The Big Picture
Spring is an exciting time. The playgrounds are once again full of gleeful shouts from children, the promise of summer is in the air, and we, as educators, are seeing...
Hiring for Literacy: The Interview
When given the opportunity to interview candidates for a teacher or literacy support opening, it is easy for an interviewer or interview team to fall back on standard teacher interview...
Talk to the Text Discussion Closure
Amanda Adrian and Heather Sisson lead a literacy coaching group discussion of an article using the "Talk to the Text" protocol. This is an excellent activity for fostering contributions from...
Talk to the Text Discussion Activity
Amanda Adrian and Heather Sisson lead a literacy coaching group discussion of an article using the "Talk to the Text" protocol. This is an excellent activity for fostering contributions from...
Learning How to Communicate: From Teacher to Coach
One fall Saturday evening, at the end of a long week when things felt a little out of control, I decided it would feel good to clean up and clear...
When Guided Reading Goes Wrong
“Oh, I tried guided reading. It doesn’t work,” reported first-grade teacher Dina. She continued chatting about herself, her instructional program, her students, her challenges, and other stuff. But I can’t...
Wild Reading: A Coach’s Perspective
I just finished reading Donalyn Miller's book Reading in the Wild. I know her path to creating wild readers is an important one. She believes that reading should be a regular part...
Narrative Nonfiction Conference
Literacy coach Heather Rader confers with Beth Lawson about using more narrative nonfiction in both reading and writing workshops.
Coaching Minute: Getting Started with Evernote
Ruth Ayres and Deb Gaby talk about how they are beginning to use Evernote and different ways of organizing the tool.
