Foreword
About the Author
Preface
Sharing Our Work
How This Book Came to Be
Suppositions
From Philosophy to Action
Conclusions: A Word About Imagination
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Three Metaphors for Literacy Coaching
Metaphor I: Coaching Pie
Metaphor II: Nesting Dolls
Metaphor III: Phases of the Moon
Closing Thoughts
1. Defining and Clarifying Your Role
Opening Thoughts: Finding Ourselves
Coaching Connection: Living Horizontal in a Vertical World
Related Research: Four Schools, Three Literacy Coaches, and 160
Teachers
Tools for Defining and Clarifying Your Role
A Coaching Story: Crossing Lines
Coaching Connection: Wet Cement in the Threshold
Taking Chapter 1 Personally: How Are You Defining and Clarifying
Your Role?
2. Stepping Into the Work of Literacy Coaching
Opening Thoughts: Big Shoes
Coaching Connection: Sitting Big
Related Research: What Can a Coach Do for You?
Tools for Stepping Into the Work of Literacy Coaching
A Coaching Story: Quality Over Quantity
Coaching Connection: One Piece at a Time
Taking Chapter 2 Personally: How Are You Stepping Into Your Work as
Literacy Coach?
3. Stretching Yourself
Opening Thoughts: Risky Business
Coaching Connection: Coaches Worth Their Salt
Related Research: Reflecting With Others
Tools for Stretching Yourself
A Coaching Story: Reading With a Different Lens
Coaching Connection: Yoga and Honoring Resistance
Taking Chapter 3 Personally: How Are You Stretching Yourself?
4. Developing and Supporting Learning Communities
Opening Thoughts: Smart Work
Coaching Connection: Red Grapes or Green Grapes
Related Research: Learning to Learn
Tools for Supporting and Developing Learning Communities
A Coaching Story: Modeling in Professional Learning
Coaching Connection: The Rubik′s Cube
Taking Chapter 4 Personally: How Are You Developing and Supporting
Learning Communities in Your School?
5. Coaching Individual Teachers
Opening Thoughts: Records on the Run
Coaching Connection: Thinking Outside the Mailbox
Related Research: Feedback and Situated Identities
Tools for Coaching Individual Teachers
A Coaching Story: Learning to Script Lessons
Coaching Connection: Just What I Needed
Taking Chapter 5 Personally: How Will You Work With Individual
Teachers?
6. Documenting Your Work, Managing Your Time
Opening Thoughts: Matters of Time
Coaching Connection: Drumming Class
Related Key: Energy and Time
Tools for Documenting Your Work and Managing Your Time
Coaching Story: Play Fast
Coaching Connection: Machines That Make the Work Harder
Taking Chapter 6 Personally: How Do You Document Your Work and
Manage Your Time?
References
Index
Jan Miller Burkins is currently completing her sixth year as a
full-time coach at Chase Street Elementary School, Athens, Georgia.
She has worked as a language arts consultant for a regional
educational service agency, a district-level literacy coordinator,
a reading specialist, and an elementary classroom teacher. Her work
as a consultant has taken her into elementary, middle, and high
schools where she has helped school leaders examine their reading
instruction, modeled lessons, and facilitated professional
learning.
Burkins is also a part-time assistant professor at the University
of Georgia, where she teaches classes to students pursuing graduate
degrees in literacy education. She has also developed a series of
courses for educators interested in becoming literacy coaches.
Burkins is the author of Coaching for Balance: Meeting the
Challenges of Literacy Coaching.
In 1989, Burkins received her undergraduate degree in early
childhood education from Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham,
Alabama, and in 1993 her master’s from the University of Alabama.
She later earned her reading specialist certification and her
doctorate from the University of Kansas in 1999. Her dissertation,
which was a meta-analysis of the research on phonemic awareness,
was the Dissertation of the Year for the University of Kansas
School of Education and one of three finalists for the
International Reading Association’s Dissertation of the Year.
“This engaging resource lends an authentic voice to the challenges
that literacy coaches face in their daily work and offers clear
solutions for meeting those challenges. An excellent array of
practical tools supports literacy coaches as they strive to
establish collegial partnerships, reflect on their coaching roles,
and refine coaching practices to facilitate effective learning
communities.”
*Maryann Mraz, Associate Professor, Reading and Elementary
Education, University of North Carolina at Charlotte*
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