NCTE Study Group and Coaching Resources

Successful study groups take the time to develop operating principles: How will we work together? They use student data to define goals: How can we use data to become better “kidwatchers” and increase achievement? They reflect on new learning and make changes: What changes will we make in our group, in our classrooms, at our school? Add this strategy-rich resource notebook, organized by these questions and more, to your professional library today!

Includes …

Study group experiences to address the literacy challenges in your school
Protocols for peer observation and debriefing
Vignettes and recommendations from coaches, administrators and teachers
DVD with video footage of educators asking questions like yours
Over 300 pages of articles addressing literacy coaching and teacher learning (click here for bibliography of included professional reading)

The majority of this collection has been extracted from NCTE journals, books, and from across the NCTE Reading Initiative topic-focused professional development curriculum. Learn more about the NCTE Reading Initiative at www.ncte.org/profdev/onsite/readinit.

View a Sample Chapter/Article

* Journal articles are provided in PDF format and can be opened using the free Adobe® Reader® program or a comparable viewer. Click here to download and install the most recent version of Adobe Reader.

Grade Level(s): General, Elementary, Middle, Secondary