Resources from 2010 Presentations

Following are links to some resources provided by presenters from the 2010 International Literacy Coaching Summit. As people send more files in, they will be added, so check back for new submissions.

What's Hot and What's Not: Vocabulary
Sherrye Garrett: Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi
From the preconference workshop.
PowerPoint (1.37 mb)

We All Write: Using Authentic Language to Inspire Students
Jessica Olivarez-Mazone: Corpus Christi ISD, Texas
Teachers: become more familiar with writer's workshops and literacy centers, and learn how to incorporate and adapt these for use in your own classrooms.
PowerPoint (1.00 mb)

Secondary Literacy Coaching & School-Wide Instructional Change
Krista McDaniel: Littleton High School, Colorado
Explore the necessity of collaboration between and among secondary educators to implement school-wide shifts in instructional practices and the role of a literacy coach in facilitating those collaborative efforts.
Slide Show (PowerPoint 2007) (215 kb)
Worksheet pdf (735 kb)
Info sheet pdf (530 kb)

Coaches as Critical Friends: A Sustainable Model for Coach Support
Jacy Ippolito: Salem State College; Joanna Lieberman: Cambridge Public Schools, Massachusetts
In this session, presenters will share how district-wide literacy coaches and administrators from the Cambridge Public Schools are using protocol-based discussions in the Critical Friends Group Model to sustain and improve professional development for building-based coaches.
Slide show pdf (1.18 mb)

Coaching Without Judgment
Shannon Kane & Mary Beth Crowder-Meier: Community Academy Public Charter Schools, Washington, D.C.
Instructional coaches should not work from positions of evaluation or judgment. Instead, coaches should focus on potential. In this institute, learn strategies for coaching without judgment, and plan ways to work toward this potential.
Presentation pdf (2.91 mb)

Summer School: Academic Intervention and Embedded Professional Development
Mary Beth Crowder-Meier & Shannon Kane: Educational Consultants, Washington, D.C.
Summer is not just time to relax and rejuvenate! Summer school is a great opportunity to support students through high-quality instruction and to support teachers and instructional coaches through embedded professional development. In this session, lead coaches will share how they turned a traditional summer school into transformative practice.
Presentation pdf (172 kb)

Creating Effective Professional Development for Instructional Coaches
Mary Beth Crowder–Meier & Jenn McDermott: Independent Consultants, Virginia
Professional developers and literacy coaches need high-quality professional development themselves. This is an opportunity for school and district administrators–as well as coaches themselves–to consider the professional development of their instruction coaches.
Presentation pdf (117 kb)
Presentation pdf (302 kb)

Using Marzano's Strategies as Response to Intervention
Diane Ghastin: Round Rock ISD, Texas
Using Robert J. Marzano's effective instructional strategies can increase students' responses to instruction. Presenters will demonstrate classroom–tested practices, backed by Marzano's research, that help students understand concepts at deeper levels and provide students the tools for self assessment and motivation. Participants will actively engage in practicing the strategies.
PowerPoint (2.41 mb)

Reading Intervention for Math Success: A Cross-Curricular Tutoring Program
Linda Fenimore: Round Rock ISD, Texas
Examine the research base for cross-curricular interventions and learn which strategies and methods have made a difference for freshman students in a suburban high school.
PowerPoint (8.37 mb)

The Data Are In: Four Years of Coaching Implementation and Analysis
Kelly Feighan: Research for Better Schools, Pennsylvania; Elizabeth Heeren: Memphis Striving Readers Program,
Tennessee
Explore the instruments, analysis, results, and lessons learned from a four-year evaluation of the
implementation and impact of literacy coaching in four urban middle schools.
Presentation pdf (4.93 mb)

The Comprehensive Intervention Model for Preventing Reading Failure: An Approach to RTI
Shari Frost & Roberta Buhle: National-Louis University, Illinois
Discover how literacy coaches can help schools implement a Comprehensive Intervention Model (developed by Dr. Linda Dorn) as RTI. Frost trains and supports literacy coaches through the Partnership in Comprehensive Literacy Project at National-Louis University and is director of the Literacy Coaching Clearninghouse. She is also co-author of a book published by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: Effective Literacy Coaching: Building Expertise and a Culture of Literacy. With Dr. Roberta Buhle, co-author of the Illinois Snapshot of Early Literacy (ISEL), Frost will co-present a set of standardized, individually administered measures of early literacy development for grades K, 1, and 2.
PowerPoint (1.50 mb)

See How Coaching Helped Embed the RTI Process into Our School
June Haynes: Sandusky City Schools, Ohio
Come and see how a reading coach has helped guide teachers to understand, utilize, and embed the RTI
process into a school’s culture.
PowerPoint (4.29 mb)

Literacy Coaching in Special Education: Helping Students Succeed within an RTI Framework
Mitzi Brammer: Special School District, Missouri
Literacy specialists, literacy coaches, classroom teachers, and school administrators will learn how to utilize special education literacy coaches as part of site-based data teams to make instructional decisions for all students within a Response to Intervention framework.
Slide Show (PowerPoint 2007) (779 kb)

A Mentoring Model That Benefits All: RTI in a PDS
Christopher Kennedy: Ohio University, Ohio
Learn about a unique professional development school collaboration between a university and a local school that provides primary-level intervention for struggling readers.
PowerPoint (2.28 mb)

Integrating IRA's Six Guiding Principles into an Effective RTI Plan
Rebecca Binks: University of St. Francis, Illinois
Learn how to effectively integrate the International Reading Association’s six key principles of RTI into the implementation and evaluation of an RTI plan.
Presentation pdf (197 kb)

"I Already Do That." Motivating the Reluctant Teacher
Elizabeth Erickson: Grand View University, Iowa; Kouider Mokhtari: Iowa State University, Iowa
We will share effective strategies to engage teachers in their own learning starting with a positive learning environment and engaging lessons.
PowerPoint (1.94 mb)

Effective Metacognitive Strategies for the Classroom
Traci Powell & Stacie VanLoenen: Pasadena ISD, Texas
All students, especially those who have comprehension problems, can be taught metacognitive tools to help improve reading comprehension.
PowerPoint (1.58 mb)

From Coaching Cognitive Reading Instruction in South Texas to Just Getting Books in South African Classrooms: Lessons to Move Us Forward
Misty Sailors: The University of Texas at San Antonio
From her keynote talk on the most recent research on coaching, its role in classroom instruction and student learning, and the role it plays in professional development of teachers in developing countries
PowerPoint (6.37 mb)

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