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I’ve been a literacy coach for nearly a decade, through six different job titles and several theories of change (some of them contradictory), with one persistent question:
- What should a literacy coach know and be able to do?
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New Blog:
"Our desire to discuss our teaching and share our students’ growth creates sales opportunities.
To the billion-dollar education industry, I’m not just a teacher – I’m a potential influencer who might convince other educators to buy in..."
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A Classroom Teachers’ Guide to Reading Research Minding the Research to Practice Gap Following the reading research is more challenging than it sounds. There are thousands of studies and it’s hard to know where to start. For classroom teac…

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Following the reading research is more challenging than it sounds...For classroom teachers, making sense of studies is extra challenging because a lot of the research has been done in contexts that we can’t replicate. So how do we make sense of a study to decide whether it’s worth our effort?

The Standards Trap: Why Grade-Level Teaching Fails Our Students The Common Core Standards were marketed as a great equalizer—if we provided standards-aligned lessons, then all students would be prepared for college and career. But the more I learn about effecti…

“Most curricula are designed to be successful in the adoption process, not the classroom.”
- @KJWinEducation on X

So what should we do when we're handed a program that doesn't work?

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