Literacy Coaching Can Feel Lonely
The Literacy Architects
We break down complex literacy routines into bite-sized steps and host communities of practice on structured literacy.
Being the only literacy coach in a school can feel isolating. One moment, you’re leading a PD session, and the next, you’re in a classroom modeling a lesson, analyzing student data, or troubleshooting reading interventions. Teachers rely on you for answers, but who do you turn to when you need support?
You’re not alone in this experience. In fact, 54% of schools with a literacy coach have only one — and 36% of schools don’t have a literacy coach at all. That’s a lot of educators navigating literacy challenges without a dedicated thought partner.
That’s why we created the Literacy Leadership Network?— so you don’t have to do this work in isolation. Our Literacy Leadership Network (LLN) is your built-in network of literacy experts and fellow coaches, ready to support you with:
? Live Webinars & Short Video Trainings: Stay up to date on research-based literacy practices with expert-led sessions on topics like structuring your literacy block, analyzing assessments, and planning interventions for striving readers.
? Collaboration Meetings & Office Hours:?Get real-time feedback, brainstorm solutions, and talk through challenges with literacy experts and fellow coaches who get it.
? Done-for-You Resources: Save time with ready-to-use articles, frameworks, templates, and tools designed to help you support your teachers and students.
You don’t have to figure everything out on your own. Let us be your partner in this work. The Literacy Leadership Network is here to provide the community, resources, and expertise you need, so you can focus on what matters most.
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What We're Working On
?? February's Literacy Leadership Network?Topic: Background Knowledge and Vocabulary: They Don't Know What They Don't Know
Here's what's on the Literacy Leadership Network Calendar:
?? February 3: Live webinar to help you translate reading research into concrete plans for instructional change.
?? February 4: Webinar recording + members-only resources and downloads so you can take your learning with you.
?? February 10: 2–4 short videos aligned to this month's topic so you can further your learning.
?? February 17: Live consultancy meeting to give you the time and space to receive feedback from and exchange ideas with peers.
? Week of February 24: Office hours to ask our literacy specialists questions about your specific school or district situation.
Background knowledge and vocabulary will be the focus of February's LLN topic, but that's not all you get access to in your LLN portal! The Literacy Leadership Network now provides access to all past months of LLN content! Our LLN resource library includes 100+ different resources, including downloads, videos, articles, and our monthly webinars.
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Last month we presented an edWeb with Learning A-Z on incorporating critical thinking in the writing process. Here are the details:
Think Critically, Write Clearly: Tools for Deepening Student Thought
Critical thinking is essential for students to become confident writers and for their overall success inside and outside the classroom. But how is critical thinking explicitly taught? In this edWebinar education experts from The Literacy Architects break down the components of critical thinking and explore the prerequisite skills students need to bring this approach to their writing.
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3 周The more I learn about how reading is taught in schools, the more amazed (appalled) I am. As an outsider to the world of education instruction, I simply assumed that every k-3 teacher would have received literacy instruction training. Imagine my surprise to learn from numerous teachers that they had to go back to school and get a master’s degree in literacy instruction in order to truly know how to teach reading. And now I learn that not even every school has a literacy coach?! How is this even possible? What in the world is happening? How is teaching reading not one of the most fundamental and first things K-3 teachers learn?!