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Becoming a literacy leader : supporting learning and change /

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 evoluti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Allen, Jennifer, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Portland, Maine : Stenhouse Publishers, [2016]
Edición:Second edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.