Literacy Coach Mode

Literacy coaches- Here is a great way to help bring staff together and share strategies.

Literacy Coach Mode

A common mistake in piloting is assigning one “guinea pig” teacher per grade level. This is a recipe for isolation. My advice is to always pilot with multiple teachers per grade level. When you have a pilot team, the dynamic changes: you have someone to vent to, plan with, and troubleshoot with in real-time.

Collaboration doesn’t happen by accident. To ensure we are making decisions based on shared data, not just isolated frustrations, we must commit to meeting once a week to debrief. These structured sessions are where we transform individual challenges into collective solutions. Remember, we are not just testing a curriculum—we are testing how we can teach it together.

Literacy Coach Mode

A common mistake in piloting is assigning one “guinea pig” teacher per grade level. This is a recipe for isolation. My advice is to always pilot with multiple teachers per grade level. When you have a pilot team, the dynamic changes: you have someone to vent to, plan with, and troubleshoot with in real-time.

Collaboration doesn’t happen by accident. To ensure we are making decisions based on shared data, not just isolated frustrations, we must commit to meeting once a week to debrief. These structured sessions are where we transform individual challenges into collective solutions. Remember, we are not just testing a curriculum—we are testing how we can teach it together.

Literacy Coach Mode

Struggling to make literacy strategies stick in high school content areas? It starts with shifting who leads the conversation. In this post, I share how we moved away from top-down professional development to a distributed leadership model. Discover how we empowered content-area teachers to champion four high-leverage strategies—Background Knowledge, Vocabulary, Interactive Read Alouds, and Close Reading—to deepen student learning in every department.