Coaching

Investing in building the expertise of the teachers in your school is one of the most lasting decisions a leader can make.

The 2021 Literacy Collaborative cohort will be held online through a combination of live, interactive sessions and on-demand learning. Participants apply what they learn and receive job-embedded coaching from Lesley University faculty as part of their coursework.

Whether we are teaching in person or from a distance, the following are suggestions that will allow you to partake in genuine meaningful conversations about books and learn more about your students as readers.

While content coaching cycles can never replace classroom coaching cycles, they offer new opportunities to partner together around shared teacher learning and can be an important first step to deeper, more intense collaboration in the classroom, either in-person or virtually.

Savvy coaches see every interaction as a chance to build trust and “grow” a partnership.

Identifying an educator to train as a literacy coach is among one of the most important decisions a building principal has to make.

The Literacy Collaborative partnership builds schoolwide professional capacity focused on improving the literacy outcomes for all children. What does this mean for a teacher, interventionist, or literacy coach/teacher leader who becomes trained through Literacy Collaborative? Literacy coaches “in-training” immerse themselves into an initial year of training to refine their literacy learning and teaching. Through ongoing […]

Eugenia DeLucca shares her experiences as a Primary (K-2) Literacy Collaborative trained coach for Bay Shore Public Schools.