Literacy coach

Take a look inside my office as a PreK-5 literacy coach! Get a free science of reading bulletin board to use in your own literacy coach office, too!

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

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

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 […]

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 my 12 years. It was an exciting and enlightening year, to be sure. As much as I struggled, I feel so lucky to have been given this…

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…

A reading list specifically for instructional coaches is one way teacher leaders can continue their own learning and hone their craft. The suggested reading list below are all titles recommended by teacher leaders in the field. By no means do you need to read all of these books. This list is simply a way to…

Each Tuesday and throughout the month of March, my colleagues at Two Writing Teachers and I host the Slice of Life Story Challenge, where hundreds of teachers practice their own writing. To learn more about the Slice of Life Story Chalellenge, click here .

This is why it is important that we take our learning into our own hands. I love to read current professional development books because I am always learning

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