Coaching Toward Transformation: Lessons Learned from Three-Second-Grade Writing Teachers
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literacy coaching, professional learning, writingAbstract
This article captures lessons learned while coaching a team of writing teachers across a poetry writing unit of study. Because of the heightened pressure of successful implementation of curricular programs, coaching can become focused solely on fidelity and blind implementation of the resource. This article captures coaching techniques used to shift away from conformity and towards transformation in teaching.
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