Literacy Coaching

Literacy Coaching takes you inside today’s main coaching models, exploring their roles and responsibilities. Beginning with what coaches do, Casey provides real-life examples of what you’ll need to know and what abilities the job requires, as well as crucial but often overlooked details such as how to build a relationship with your principal and how to assess the strengths and needs of the teachers you’ll work with. Then she presents a variety of professional development structures that help you deliver smart, targeted instructional support where and when teachers need it most. Literacy Coaching gets into the nitty-gritty, offering experience-honed advice on these and numerous other important coaching functions:

• gathering materials, gaining entry, and getting started
• developing trusting relationships
• taking notes while observing teachers and students
• using data to uncover areas of instructional need
• teaching side by side with a host teacher and debriefing afterward
• coaching strategies and language
• running powerful workshops, visitations, and meetings