coaches institute
Teaching and Learning Alliance can support literacy coaches, literacy specialists, teacher leaders, and other educators engaged in coaching, training, support, co-teaching, and other collaborative professional learning models in the following ways:
- Providing intensive, targeted professional learning for coaches/specialists to position them as effective change agents within schools and classrooms through an annual series just for instructional coaches
- Facilitating highly varied and personalized formats for learning including workshops, 1:1 classroom-embedded "coaching the coach," and guided observations for coaches to observe exemplary practice in other districts
- Customizing learning to the needs of each coach's district, school, and role, whether it be literacy coach, reading specialist, teacher leader, or other unique model within a school or district
- Equipping coaches with powerful skills, strategies, and knowledge to maximize their impact in the classroom and extend their influence across the school or district
