Leading Change

Coaching for Literacy GAINS

Learning Partners for Strategic Learning: teachers working together to plan instruction, deliver lessons, and assess effectiveness.

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Adobe Connect Series for Literacy Leaders and Coaches  New
Literacy leaders and coaches for grades 7-12 are invited to participate in a Literacy GAINS Adobe Connect series focusing on research related to adolescent literacy. The content of the sessions will connect to The Handbook of Adolescent Literacy Research by Leila Christenbury, Randy Bomer and Peter Smagorinsky. Each site will receive a copy of this resource.
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Adobe Presenter Professional Learning Series:  New
A Framework for Literacy Coaches
  

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Professional Learning Sessions    New


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A Framework for Literacy Coaching
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Coaching Regional Sessions Material PPT   3.9 Mb    
Frequently Asked Questions

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How to Access a Provincial Literacy Coach  New
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Learning Focused Conversations and Shared Reading in Grade 12 History
In this video, learning partners collaborate to improve student understanding of complex texts in a grade 12 history class. Instruction is focused on ‘talk to the text’ reading strategy which teaches students how to deconstruct a dense text and improve their understanding of history content.
 
FLV  12:32 min
MP4   229 M
Lesson Study: Professional Learning in a Secondary School
In this video, secondary science teachers engage in Lesson Study, a professional learning model that engages teachers in systematically examining their practice with the goal of becoming more effective.
 
FLV    9:03 min
MP4    68 M
Principals Want to Know

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Summarizing and Notetaking in Secondary Science
In this video, learning partners collaborate to enhance learning in a secondary science classroom by focusing on two key strategies, summarizing and notetaking.
 
FLV  19:32 min
MP4   140 M