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This comprehensive guide encompasses a multilayered model that provides a rich experience for both coach and trainee. How to Coach Teachers Who Don't Think Like You covers the process and content of coaching and describes a unique approach that encourages teachers to write and reflect upon their practices. Coaches can use literacy strategies to train across content areas and learn how to individualize their approach to honor teachers' distinctive learning styles. The author presents samples of teacher writing and student work generated from coaching and offers narratives from practicing coaches across the country in school-based, district, and independent settings to illustrate the real world of coaching.

"Essays and reflections about literacy coaching. These may include book reviews, protocols, videos, or other content to support coaches as they build their repertoire of strategies for supporting teachers' job-imbedded professional learning."

"In Learningforward's Summer 2012 copy of The Learning Principal , Valerie von Frank writes about coaching for principals. She includes the following list of attributes of effective coaches: Sincerity: How do the coach's actions reflect her stated intentions? Source: Adapted from The Coach's Craft: Powerful Practices to Support School Leaders , by Kay Psencik."

"Donald B. Bartalo reveals the experiences of school leaders and teachers who have discovered that meaningful school improvement does not necessarily come from the top-it comes from effective teaching and leaders who support it. Based on eight fundamental tenets, the text features a clear how-to process, success stories, and methods for bridging the teaching gap between the kinds of teaching needed for the 21st century and that which is found in most schools. Special features include: An interactive writing style that "coaches" educators Powerful "what to do" and "how to do it" tools Case illustrations and success stories Protocols for leading collaborative inquiry Journal reflections Leadership team activities"

Playing For Change | Song Around the World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM&feature=channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4880PJnO2E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k08yxu57NA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhbqIJZ8wCM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLxVH11MP8A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5wDGqcbj8M I have started a new blog, Radical Learners. In order to focus on getting it up and running, I am going to pause my writing on this blog for a short while.

Practical tools for K-12 literacy coaches, classroom teachers, and school leaders including study group guides, booklists, writing workshop advice, and professional development planners.

My Colleague Refuses to Collaborate with Us (LITERACY COACH CONFIDENTIAL) A literacy coach writes to us with the question: How do you work with a teacher who refuses to be a collaborative part of a team? She does her own thing without regard for other team members.