In this series of posts, I've been walking you through how a literacy coach casts a curricular vision for their school, and turn it into a reality. This is not a process that will be done overnight. How will you lead your teachers to excellence? What next steps would make the biggest impact
in this area?
Only the best: Dream a
little. Think about what would be the
ideal demonstration of this area. What resources would be involved? What components would it have? What would
the teachers sound and look like? What would
the kids be engaged in? Write all of
this down. This is where you want to take your teachers. This is
the goal. You will lead your teachers towards this goal.
Baby Steps: Next, come up with the baby steps to help
your teachers reach that goal. These baby steps could take years.
Once you have these written down, you will be able to divide them up into
a yearly plan and then a quarterly plan. My personal plan is every 3
months. The next time you conduct school-wide walk throughs you will
assess if the baby steps you implemented in this time period have been
successfully implemented. You will
determine if the current plan of action has been effective or not.
Writing down your plan of action ensures that you will remain focused and
it allows you to go back and check to see what if your current goals were
attained or if further instruction is required.
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