Join the 2025 Coaching Cohort!
Literacy coaches and interventionists have endless challenges. Transform your life this summer and head back to school ready to crush your goals! This cohort gives you the tools and confidence you need to coach like a rockstar.
Unlock Your Potential as a Confident Literacy Coach!
Are you ready to take your role as a literacy coach to the next level? Introducing our comprehensive course designed to empower and equip you with the skills, strategies, and confidence to become a highly effective literacy coach.
Are you ready to elevate your role as a literacy coach and make a lasting impact on student learning? Our comprehensive cohort provides you with the knowledge, skills, and resources to excel as a confident and effective literacy coach.
Here's what you'll learn:
How to Establish Your Role and Build Relationships
Time Management and Prioritization of Effective Coaching
How to Balance and Create a Comprehensive Literacy Block
Provide Professional Development and Support Structured Literacy
How to Set Up Coaching Cycles and Individualized Goals
Data Analysis and Individual Student Planning
Monitoring Student Progress and Adjusting Instruction
Step 1:
Register for the Literacy Coaching Cohort! Join educators who are passionate about literacy instruction and committed to making a meaningful impact on student learning.
Step 2:
Watch the modules & download your resources! Gain practical strategies and find impactful results! Our comprehensive modules cover essential topics such as establishing your role, time management, data analysis, and more!
Step 3:
Get seven real-time coaching calls with Amie. Participate in problem-solving collaboration and receive personalized support and guidance that will give you the most out of each module and all of the resources
Step 4:
Coach like a rock star! Head back to school with the coaching skills you need to navigate challenges with confidence and make a lasting impact on literacy for every student and their teacher!
A Closer Look at the Cohort
Module 1: Establishing Your Role and Building Relationships
Define the role of a literacy coach within the school context.
Collaborate with administrators and teachers to clarify expectations and responsibilities.
Develop strategies for building positive and productive relationships with teachers, including new hires.
Printable Resources for Teachers:
Role Definition Worksheet: A template to outline the specific responsibilities and expectations of the literacy coach role.
Relationship Building Checklist: A tool to track interactions and foster stronger connections with individual teachers.
Week 1 Cohort Coaching Call and Work Session with Amie
Module 2: Time Management and Prioritization for Effective Coaching
Identify daily, weekly, and monthly tasks as a literacy coach.
Select and prioritize three key focus areas for the academic year.
Implement strategies for managing time effectively and maintaining focus on priorities.
Printable Resources for Teachers:
Time Management Planner: A printable planner to organize daily, weekly, and monthly tasks, including space for prioritizing focus areas.
Prioritization Matrix: A tool to help coaches prioritize tasks based on importance and urgency.
Week 2 Cohort Coaching Call and Work Session with Amie
Module 3: Balancing and Creating a Comprehensive Literacy Block
Explore the components of a balanced literacy approach, including reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
Learn strategies for structuring a literacy block to maximize instructional time and meet the diverse needs of students.
Discuss best practices for incorporating whole-group instruction, small-group activities, independent work, and literacy centers.
Explore differentiation techniques to support students at various skill levels within the literacy block.
Printable Resources for Teachers:
Literacy Block Schedule Template: A customizable template for teachers to plan and organize their daily literacy block, including time allocations for different activities.
Literacy Center Ideas: A resource guide with suggestions and materials for setting up literacy centers to reinforce literacy skills in a hands-on and interactive way.
Week 3 Cohort Coaching Call and Work Session with Amie
Module 4: Providing Professional Development and Supporting Structured Literacy Instruction
Design and deliver professional development sessions to help teachers understand the components of effective reading instruction.
Support teachers in implementing a structured literacy block and utilizing data to group students.
Collaborate with teachers to plan and implement effective literacy instruction.
Printable Resources for Teachers:
Professional Development Handouts: Handouts summarizing key concepts and strategies covered in PD sessions.
Structured Literacy Block Planner: A template for teachers to plan and organize their daily literacy instruction, including grouping strategies and data tracking.
Week 4 Cohort Coaching Call and Work Session with Amie
Module 5: Coaching Cycles with Individualized Goals
Collaboratively set individual coaching goals with each teacher based on their professional growth needs and student outcomes.
Design coaching cycles tailored to address the specific goals and objectives identified by each teacher.
Implement coaching strategies, such as modeling, observation, feedback, and reflection, to support teachers in achieving their goals.
Printable Resources for Teachers:
Individual Coaching Goal Setting Worksheet: A template for teachers to articulate their professional development goals and action steps.
Coaching Cycle Plan: A customized coaching cycle plan outlining the objectives, activities, and timeline for achieving individual coaching goals.
Week 5 Cohort Coaching Call and Work Session with Amie
Module 6: Data Analysis and Individual Student Planning
Dive into data analysis techniques to identify student needs and instructional gaps.
Work with teachers to create individualized student plans based on assessment data and progress monitoring.
Develop strategies for using data to inform instructional decisions and track student growth.
Printable Resources for Teachers:
Data Analysis Templates
Individual Student Planning Forms
Week 6 Cohort Coaching Call and Work Session with Amie
Module 7: Monitoring Student Progress and Adjusting Instruction
Work with teachers to create plans for monitoring student growth and adjusting instruction as needed.
Use data to track student progress and inform instructional decisions.
Reflect on the effectiveness of coaching strategies and make adjustments for continuous improvement.
Printable Resources for Teachers:
Student Progress Monitoring Tools: Forms for tracking student growth and analyzing assessment data.
Reflection Journal: A journal for teachers to reflect on their coaching experience, set goals, and plan next steps for professional growth.
Week 7 Cohort Coaching Call and Work Session with Amie
Hi there, I'm Amie
Your Literacy Coach (and cheerleader)
I'm a K-5 Literacy Coach who's passionate about creating hands-on + engaging literacy activities for the classroom. I’ve been a reading specialist since 2018 and am so very excited to share all the tried and true activities and methods I’ve seen successfully implemented in my school with all of you! I can't wait to see you elevate your coaching game!
Take care, I'm rooting for you!
- Amie