Description: Literacy Leadership in Changing Schools will help literacy leaders improve teachers professional development in grades K6. The authors use literacy basics to suggest concrete approaches that leaders and coaches can use to help teachers improve their instruction with culturally and linguistically diverse students. Based on firsthand experiences, research, and a school-university-community collaborative (Changing Suburbs Institute in New York), this practical book homes in on what literacy leaders need to do in todays rapidly changing schools. With vignettes, strategies, and guidelines, each chapter is devoted to one essential component of serving as an effective literacy leader. Throughout, the book addresses typical issues leaders and teachers face, such as high-stakes testing, increasing failure rates, rigorous teacher and principal evaluations, family engagement, shrinking resources, and teachers inexperience with instructing diverse students.
Review Quotes:
"The book is an engaging read where research is seamlessly intertwined with practice. Many of the suggestions presented are considered best practice for educators and are applicable for all teachers, not just those in school leadership roles." -- Teachers College Record
-- "Teachers College Record"