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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"literacy coach"”.
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Teacher Perceptions of Their Effectiveness in Supporting Reading Strategies as a Result of Collaboration with a Literacy Coach
… add to the pressures on public educators. Is coaching an effective way to support and encourage secondary content-area teachers to include reading strategies in their daily work with students?</p> <p>Purpose</p> <p>The purpose of the study was to examine the literacy coach initiative in two …
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Using sociocultural and cognitive lenses the nature of reading scaffolding provided by an experienced district literacy coach during an upper elementary small group reading intervention
… scaffolding, provided by an experienced district literacy coach. A constructivist paradigm informed this study's methodology. One experienced district literacy coach and five fourth-grade students participated in this descriptive case study (Merriam, 2009). The coach was observed during the course …
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The Rhetoric and Realities of Literacy Coaching: An Autoethnography
<p>I became a literacy coach eight years ago. After working at one school for five years with four different principals and reading everything I could find about being a literacy coach, I was keenly aware of the gap between the rhetoric of literacy coaching and the realities I faced in this role. …
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An Exploration Of The Impact Of Instructional Coaching
… through mastery of Florida State Standards. Literacy coaches support teachers to ensure students master these standards. Research about the impact of instructional coaches at the elementary and middle school levels exists, but research is limited about the impact of coaching at the high …
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The Effectiveness of Literacy Coaches as Perceived by School Administrators, Classroom Teachers, and Literacy Coaches
School districts are hiring literacy coaches to provide professional development and followup support for teachers as a means to improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement in reading. A paucity of research exists reflecting a clear analysis of the factors which can be used to determine …
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Good to Great: A Case Study of an African American Literacy Coordinator’s Role in Transitioning a School From Dependence on a Scripted Reading Program to Balanced Literacy
… of race on the implementation process as a Literacy Coordinator transitioned an elementary school from Open Court to balanced literacy. A retroactive case study was used to examine the Literacy Coordinator’s actions and decisions, teachers’ perspectives, and the effects of race on the …
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Changing school culture: a primary literacy initiative, all hands on deck
… of this study was to implement the balanced literacy approach to reading instruction for two-hundred sixteen kindergarten through third graders, as a means of increasing student achievement, focusing instruction school wide, and creating a collaborative instructional culture. Data to evaluate …
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The effects of story performance on fourth and fifth grade students' comprehension and oral reading fluency of narrative and expository texts
… strategy) was used, in part, to differentiate literacy instruction over a period of seven weeks. </p> <p>Treatment 1 consisted of twenty-eight teacher-storytelling performances (fourteen narrative and fourteen expository). Likewise, Treatment 2 consisted of twenty-eight teacher-story reading …
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A case study of lesson study in a high school: Implementation after the initial funding cease
… who collaborated with the science teachers, one literacy coach, and one curriculum coordinator. Data collection included secondary sources obtained by the university partnership; observations of the lesson study, the participants’ regular classrooms, and department meetings; two phases of …
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Scaffolded Discourse Within a Comprehensive Literacy Model
… that has these features is the comprehensive literacy model within the Partnership of Comprehensive Literacy model. This mixed methods study examined the language of scaffolding that occurred in three settings within the model: grade level meetings, coaching and mentoring, and small group …
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Teachers' Perceptions of Implementing Response to Intervention in Meeting Academic Needs of At-Risk Students in Kindergarten through Second Grade.
… teachers' perceived it beneficial to have a literacy coach or reading specialist in the building and to have administration's support. Recommendations for implementing RTI successfully were based on the data analysis.</p>
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The Impact of Collaborative Literacy Coaching on Middle and High School Teachers' Personal and General Sense of Efficacy for Literacy Teaching
… the impact of a nine month collaborative literacy coaching (CLC) initiative on middle and high school content teachers' personal and general sense of efficacy for literacy teaching. A variety of data, including but not limited to transcripts of weekly collaborative literacy coaching …
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Teachers' and Principals' Perspectives of Literacy Coaching in an Elementary School.
… of this qualitative study was to discover the literacy coach's tasks and qualities teachers valued the most and which qualities they valued the least. Knowing those precepts might help one to become a more efficient and valuable resource for both classroom teachers and principals. School …
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The Relationship Between Teachers' Perceptions of the Feedback They Receive and Their Teaching Efficacy in High-Performing Schools
… learning communities and instructional coaches are aimed at building teacher capacity, maximum results can only be achieved when school leaders balance how they leverage their evaluative power while promoting these formative experiences. Absent in the drive for heightened accountability, …
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Literacy Principals's...Literacy Coaches' Perceptions of Principals' Literacy Leadership
… the instructional leadership of the principal on literacy initiatives as it relates to student achievement. It examined literacy coaches' perceptions of how a principal's instructional leadership relates to teachers' literacy curriculum. The study also examined whether South Carolina principals' …
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Zoom: The Changing Nature of Middle School Shared Instructional Leadership on the Way to the Common Core
… that was shared among the administrators and literacy coaches who led the adoption and implementation of the new Standards. The research was conducted during their first year of the CCSS implementation plan and was based on a year-long series of interviews with district level administrators, …
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The Literary Coach as Instructional Leader: How Three Literacy Coaches in Rural Georgia Improve Teacher Practices
… theories into practice. A major obstacle facing literacy coaches and leadership teams is identifying an effective implementation model and practice that promotes and support high quality literacy instruction through direct, school-based work with teachers in a district. To understand the support …