Becoming a Literacy Leader : Supporting Learning and Change.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Jennifer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts teachers--Training of--United States.

Language arts teachers.

Literacy--Study and teaching--United States.

Literacy.

Literacy programs--United States.

Literacy programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Summary:

In this second edition of Becoming a Literacy Leader: Supporting Learning and Change, author Jennifer Allen reflects on her work as a literacy specialist and how the role has evolved in the decade since she wrote the first edition.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction: Layered Coaching

I Am

We Are

Shared Leadership

Updated Thinking

Layered Leadership

Making Meaning Together

Rowing in the Same Direction

My Stories

Chapter 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

Chapter 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.

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-003-84306-9

1-003-84010-8

1-03-268060-1

1-62531-097-8

9781032680606

OCLC:

1402813984