Professional Development for Literacy Coaches

Meeting the Challenges of Coaching: A Four-day Institute for Literacy Coaches 

This institute examines a coach's roles in the professional learning community, effective coaching models and the link between teaching, coaching and professional development.

Topics will include:

• Building a professional learning community
• Clarifying the roles of the coach, differentiating between coaching and supervision
• Organizing and preparing for effective coaching sessions and setting up a coaching notebook
• Helping teachers understand the reading and writing process
• Using language that facilitates teacher inquiry
• Maintaining good communication with principals and teachers
• Observing change over time in teacher development
• Supporting evidence-based teaching

Dates and Time

Monday-Thursday, August 10-13, 2009; 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. 

Also available for graduate credit with the addition of extra class hours. Graduate-credit class hours run 8-8:30 a.m. & 3:30-4:30 p.m. each day.

Meet our Speakers:

Irene Fountas

Irene is a Professor in the School of Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she directs research-based literacy projects. She has been a classroom teacher, language arts specialist, and consultant in school districts across the nation and abroad.  Irene and co-author, Gay Su Pinnell, have published several books, including their latest publication, When Readers Struggle: Teaching That Works (Heinemann)

Mechelle Abney

Mechelle Abney is a faculty member at the Center for Reading Recovery and Literacy Collaborative where she works extensively with intermediate and middle school teachers. She has over 20 years of educational experience as a classroom teacher, Title 1 Coordinator, Reading Recovery teacher and literacy coach in the primary, intermediate and middle-school grades.

 Required Texts:

The Continuum of Literacy Learning K-8: Behaviors and Understandings to Notice, Teach and Support. (Heinemann)

The Fountas and Pinnell Promtping Guide 1. (Heinemann)

*You may purchase the books using your registration form or from www.heinemann.com.
*If you already have the books, please bring them with you to the institute.

Registration Fee:   

Non-credit fee = $595.00 (including handouts)

Registration plus required texts = $650

Location

Lesley University

Cambridge, Mass.

Information on Overnight Accommodations

Register by downloading and completing the institute brochure here.

For more information, please call (617) 349-8693 or email litcol@lesley.edu.