What You Need to Know About Collaborative Coaching Practices: Coaching Resources for Enhanced Literacy Instruction and Raising Student Achievement

What You Need to Know About Collaborative Coaching Practices- How can coaching empower teachers to take risks and try instructional models that will positively impact students’ literacy engagement and achievement?- What strategies or practices can I put in place to build collaborative partnerships with principals and teachers? - How can I work with the principal and staff to create a shared vision of my role as a literacy coach?- What types of data should I collect and analyze with teachers in order to inform classroom instruction and set student goals that are significant and worth pursuing? If these are some of your own frequently asked questions, then this book is for you. In this book you will learn how literacy coaches can make a difference in fostering collaborative learning communities where all teachers and students thrive. We explore how to create a shared vision of the coach’s role so all stakeholders have clarity of purpose and feel supported. We describe specific coaching strategies and models of professional learning that give coaches and teachers opportunities to reflect on their practices, collaboratively plan, and focus on how students learn best. In addition, each chapter provides literacy coaches with tools and techniques to help you build meaningful partnerships with administrators and classroom teachers as well as design coaching cycles that are responsive to teacher and student needs. This book for literacy coaches is part of Schoolwide’s professional learning series “What You Need to Know About.” Each book in the series includes a multitude of resources for teachers, students, administrators, and coaches that have been successfully implemented in classrooms nationwide. Also available in this series are What You Need to Know About Guided Reading (Grades K–5); What You Need to Know About Reading Assessment (Grades K–5); What You Need to Know About Science Content Literacy (Grades K–8); and What You Need to Know About Leading Effective Literacy Practices.