Literacy coach

This year, my coaching partner, Vicki, and I are trying out a new model for our coaching.

As an instructional coach, there are certain items that can make supporting teachers easier. Each of the items shared here are highly recommended by myself as a teacher leader working in multiple buildings across a large district. Grab a binder and fill it with essentials like your standards, pacing guide, and teacher performance rubrics. Below…

This year I had the amazing opportunity–thanks to an extremely supportive administration team–to be a part-time instructional coach in the high school where I’ve taught for 9 of m…

Teachers need to get to a point where they feel like they need their grade level content teams in order to plan and implement curriculum, not like going to a team meeting is just one more thing or a waste of time. So how can instructional coaches help to create Collective Teacher Efficacy in teams? I’m glad you asked! Here are SEVEN tangible ways you as an instructional coach or literacy coach can intentionally help to create high-functioning teams that positively impact students’ learning.

Hello! I hope everyone is surviving the final days before the holiday break! As many of you know I’m no longer a classroom teacher, I am a Literacy Coach. So I often get the question or look, “What do you do all day?” So today I am here to give you an answer of […]

Have you recently landed a coach interview? Congrats! Prepare for your interview with these key instructional coach interview questions and avoid this...

You kick up your feet and take a sip of your iced peach green tea, as you look out at the sunny summer afternoon and smile. Oh how you love summer. Oh how you wish the summer days and land of no schedules would never go away. Ahhh… You take another sip and decide you should […]

If more schools took the time for collaborative planning rather than top-down PD, we'd be in a better place.

1. Be a know-it-all - There is a fine line between being an authority on a subject and being a know-it-all. Coaches are there to suppor...

Every administrator wants to increase student achievement, but, unfortunately, some school leaders toss around the “We’re all reading teachers” phrase at their staf…