We should teach our children how to develop these relationships whenever possible, and co-educational schools provide that experience,» says Kathryn Starke, an
elementary school literacy coach.
Having a block of planning time each week enables
the schools literacy coach and Corcoran to join in with teams.
Now De Santiago, a soft - spoken 36 - year - old with a poster for the Social Justice Club hanging outside his door, uses a similar strategy he learned from
the school literacy coach to prepare the class for a discussion.
For the 21 schools in 7 districts that are part of a 5 year Striving Readers Research Project, efforts to sustain the use of the school wide PD model, CTL's Adolescent Literacy Model (ALM), and the infrastructure support of
the school literacy coach and literacy leadership team will be crucial in continuing to ensure that students have sufficient literacy skills to master content at the middle and high school levels.