Literacy coach office

Need help setting up your instructional coaching office? On this episode of the Coaching Podcast, I share eight different spaces that can be useful to get the job done! When choosing your instructional coaching office set up it’s best for you to consider your role and responsibilities. You want your instructional coaching room to be functional for the specific work you will be doing with the teachers. Click to listen as I give my best tips including making a list and map before you start.

I'm not embarrassed to say that one of the main reasons teaching first perked my interest was the office supplies. I remember sitti...

Hello! I hope everyone is surviving the final days before the holiday break! As many of you know I’m no longer a classroom teacher, I am a Literacy Coach. So I often get the question or look, “What do you do all day?” So today I am here to give you an answer of […]

I am about to start my fourth year as a literacy coach at my elementary school. This has been an exciting journey and I love my job. Like...

As an instructional coach, there are certain items that can make supporting teachers easier. Each of the items shared here are highly recommended by myself as a teacher leader working in multiple buildings across a large district. Grab a binder and fill it with essentials like your standards, pacing guide, and teacher performance rubrics. Below…

If more schools took the time for collaborative planning rather than top-down PD, we'd be in a better place.

The coaching cycle. We hear about it all of the time. It's a best-practice approach to working with individual teachers, honoring that th...

I'm not embarrassed to say that one of the main reasons teaching first perked my interest was the office supplies. I remember sitti...

I have a hard truth to tell you. I don't know if you'll like it, but it must be said. Not everyone is going to be excited to work wi...

So, if you're an instructional coach, and this is your first year, congratulations. You've made it...at least a week. Around this time in ...