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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Layered Coaching -- I Am -- We Are -- Shared Leadership -- Updated Thinking -- Layered Leadership -- Making Meaning Together -- Rowing in the Same Direction -- My Stories -- 2. Being a Resource: A Room of One's Own for Literacy -- Creating Learning Spaces Together -- Wall Space -- Literacy News Bulletin Board -- Library of Mentor Texts -- Professional Library -- Read-Aloud Corner -- Study Group Meeting Area -- Staff Picks -- Community Resources -- Personal Office Area -- Book Swap -- What If You Don't Have a Room? -- Pause. Reflect. Act -- 3. A Model for Required Professional Development: "My Life in Seven Stories" -- A New Start -- The Beginning of "My Life in Seven Stories" -- Instructional Strategies Moving into Classrooms -- The Nuts and Bolts of Classroom Implementation: A Three-Day Writing Cycle -- In the End -- Today: Designing Required Professional Development -- Applying New Learning: Implementing School-Mandated Initiatives -- Pause. Reflect. Act. -- 4. Study Groups: Developing Voluntary Professional Development -- Meeting the Individual Professional Needs of Teachers -- What Should You Expect from a Study Group? -- Why Study Groups? -- Study Groups Provide "Think Time" -- My Role in Study Groups -- Finding a Focus and Resources -- Planning and Scheduling Groups -- Establishing a Predictable Routine -- What's Not on a Study Group Agenda -- Providing Additional Resources -- What Teachers Say About Study Groups -- Participants Keep Coming Back -- A Worthy Investment -- Pause. Reflect. Act. -- 5. Coaching in Classrooms: Differentiating Support for New and Veteran Teachers -- Getting Started in Classrooms -- Coaching and Collaborating -- Time Frames for Veteran Teachers -- Blanketing a Grade Level with a Strategy -- Collaborating with Master Teachers -- Dialogue Journals: A Debriefing Tool -- Switching Gears to New Teachers: Remembering My Own Story -- Differentiating Support for New Teachers -- A Glimpse of Layered Support for New Teachers -- Revisiting Lucy's Classroom -- Supporting Change -- Pause. Reflect. Act. -- 6. Supporting Curriculum and Assessment -- Supporting the Literacy Curriculum and Assessment Framework -- Literacy Curriculum and Assessment Notebooks -- Preparing Student Assessment Materials -- Release Time for Administering Assessments -- Another Set of Eyes -- Literacy Team Meetings -- Evaluating and Tracking Student Achievement -- Curriculum Maps -- Curriculum Support -- Curriculum Support in Action: Messy Work at Its Best -- Pause. Reflect. Act. -- 7. Helping Kids on the Bubble: The Literacy Intervention Classroom -- How the Literacy Intervention Room Came to Be -- "Helping" Students on the Bubble Through Inclusive Support -- Starting the Year: Establishing Predictable Routines -- Fall Assessments to Inform Instruction -- Immersed in Literacy -- Breaking Down and Chunking Out Instruction -- A Snapshot of One Morning in the Literacy Intervention Classroom: Working with Students Through the Research Process -- Evaluating the Success of the Program: A Snapshot of Students Who Completed the Two-Year Intervention -- Student Survey -- The Literacy Rooms Today: Fourteen Years Later -- Defining Success -- Pause. Reflect. Act. -- 8. Creating Unity through Whole School Experiences -- Involving Teachers, Staff, and Students in the Selection Process -- Book Access for All -- No One Way to Approach a Book -- Celebrating Ourselves as Writers -- The Big Day: The Author Visit -- Planning with Purpose for a Schoolwide Read: Paper Things -- Read-Aloud Considerations -- The Best Day Ever -- Pause. Reflect. Act. -- 9. Cultivating Teacher Leadership -- Focus and Alignment -- Building Capacity: Creating Structures to Get the Work Done -- Cultivating Teacher Leadership -- Grade-Level Teacher Leaders Facilitate Curriculum Conversations -- A Process That Involves All Staff and Utilizes Teacher Leaders -- Snapshot of Grade 3 Team Making Meaning Together of Curriculum: Theme -- Moving Beyond One-to-One Level Coaching -- Pause. Reflect. Act. -- 10. Nuts and Bolts: Scheduling and Budget -- A Typical Day -- What's in a Week -- Overview of a Month -- Rhythm of a Year -- Coaching Boundaries -- A New School Year, New Stories: A Wave from the Heart -- 11. Final Words: Mentoring New Talent -- Knowing I Was Being Checked Out and Wanting to Be Liked -- Feeling Incompetent and Wanting to Be Valued -- Not Knowing What I Should Be Doing and Wanting to Be Embraced as a Resource -- Appendix -- Mentor Texts for Teaching Writing Craft -- Mentor Texts for Teaching Comprehension -- Read-Aloud Ideas -- A Sampling of Professional Books from the Literacy Room -- My Top Twenty Professional Resources |
| Summary |
The first edition of Becoming a Literacy Leader chronicled Jennifer's work as she moved to a new school and a new job as a literacy specialist and found herself tackling everything from teacher study groups to state-mandated assessment plans. This new edition is a thoughtful, reflective evolution of her work as she rethinks how her identity and role as a literacy leader have evolved |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Language arts teachers -- Training of -- United States
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Literacy -- Study and teaching -- United States
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Literacy programs -- United States
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Language arts teachers -- Training of
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Literacy programs
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Literacy -- Study and teaching
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016013795 |
| ISBN |
1625310978 |
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9781625310972 |
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