The Literacy Coach: A Key to Improving Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools
(2003)
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A literacy coach is a master teacher who provides essential leadership for a school’s overall literacy program. Leadership areas for coaches include attending meetings and professional development sessions to bring information and ideas back to their school; providing guidance to content-area teachers in teaching literacy; offering expertise to reading teachers; developing and administrating quality assessment systems; and liaising with stakeholders (school administrators, teachers, policymakers, university experts, community members) to help them understand a school’s literacy program. The report provides program examples and offers some pathways for becoming a school-based literacy specialist.Sturtevant, E.G. (2003). The Literacy Coach: A Key to Improving Teaching and Learning in Secondary Schools. Washington, DC: Alliance for Excellent Education.
