This book takes you inside today’s main coaching models, exploring their roles and responsibilities. Beginning with what coaches do, Casey provides real-life examples of what you will need to know and what abilities the job requires, as well as crucial but often overlooked details such as how to build a relationship with your principal and how to assess the strengths and needs of the teachers you will work with. Then she presents a variety of professional development structures that help you deliver smart, targeted instructional support where and when teachers need it most.

Literacy Coaching gets into the nitty-gritty, offering experience-honed advice on these and numerous other important coaching functions: gathering materials, gaining entry, and getting started developing trusting relationships taking notes while observing teachers and students using data to uncover areas of instructional need teaching side by side with a host teacher and debriefing afterward coaching strategies and language running powerful workshops, visitations, and meetings