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Can a High-Stakes Assessment Create Readers?
Stephanie Affinito encounters an unexpected byproduct of testing for her son—the uninterrupted reading time waiting for others to finish builds a good habit. She shares how teachers might reclaim ten minutes a day for independent reading.
Creating Coaching Visions
Vision boards are a marvelous way to help teachers and coaches reflect in positive ways on their professional goals and passions. Stephanie Affinito explains how she helps colleagues create them.
I Still Am
Stephanie Affinito presents a simple and smart activity to help literacy coaches reflect on what they do well, and develop plans for growing over the summer and into the new year.
Unadulterated Reading
Just reading. Pure, unadulterated reading. That’s the reading homework that matters most in the long run. Stephanie Affinito explains why.
What Do We Mean by Coachable?
We think of teachers who are easy to persuade and work with as being the most “coachable.” Stephanie Affinito explains why the teachers who challenge us may teach literacy coaches more.
Literacy Morning Announcements
Stephanie Affinito has suggestions for how short poems and snippets of children’s literature might be integrated into morning announcements.
Creative Reading Responses: It Begins with You
Stephanie Affinito finds the secret to helping teachers get creative with reading responses is to try them out in their own reading first.
March Read Aloud Madness
Stephanie Affinito explains how you can spice up a winter professional development session with a read-aloud book tasting and competition modeled after the March Book Madness initiative.
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