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Top 5 books I read in 2022

Resources

"Where do we begin?"

How to Teach Readers

What questions do you have for Peter Afflerbach?

The Influence of Texts, Tasks, and Environment for Developing Motivated and Engaged Readers

Teaching Readers (Not Reading): Chapters 9-10

Implemented with fidelity, or teaching with integrity?

Teaching Readers (Not Reading) Book Study: Chapters 7-8

Attention and Insight

Teaching Readers (Not Reading) Book Study: Chapter 6

What's "true" within the science of reading movement?

Teaching Readers (Not Reading) Book Study: Chapters 4-5

Knowing Our Students, Knowing Ourselves

Teaching Readers (Not Reading) Book Study: Introduction, Chapters 1-3

You can't buy the science of reading

One Science is Dependent on Another

There is more than one science of reading

The Science is Anything But Settled

Teachers: What are the key literacy resources, strategies, and tools in your instructional toolbox?

Teaching Reading is Not Simple

Literacy Leadership: A Conversation with Regie Routman and Colleagues

Week 4: How to communicate feedback teachers find respectful and useful

10 Insights from Building a Second Brain

Week 3: How to affirm promising literacy practices

Three Prerequisites Before Communicating Feedback with Teachers

Week 2: How to see literacy instruction through a learning (vs. judgment) lens

A simple strategy for focusing on priorities, reducing stress, and feeling a sense of accomplishment as a leader

Week 1: How daily classroom visits can build trust with faculty

Why is getting into classrooms so challenging?

What I've learned since being diagnosed with ADHD

Three beliefs I hold right now about coaching and the role of the school leader

"What are you trying and applying today?"

Instructional Walks: The First Four Weeks

Four Strategies for Reducing Literacy Instruction to Increase Engagement, Accelerate Learning, and Decrease Stress

Leaders Need to Know Literacy

How are you providing feedback and cultivating growth for your teachers and students?

Planning Around Priorities: How do we ensure our last days, first days, and all the days in between support what is most important?

How have you resisted the literacy curriculum script?

Inside the classroom, looking out...

Setting a Vision for the Work

Take That Next Step

The 5th "C" for Creating Trust

Before anything else, trust.

Trust is the Foundation for School Improvement

How am I doing?

How Curriculum Development Led to Increased Trust and Confidence

Glows and Grows: Celebrating What is Going Well and Thinking About Ways to Improve

The difference between leadership and management

Leading Like a C.O.A.C.H.: Competence as a Key for Creating Confidence and Building Trust in School Culture

Five Questions for the Summer 2022 Book Study

The most commonly missing element (and the most important part) of writing instruction

The Literacy Curriculum is a Compass, Not a Map

Efforting

Newsletter Update: A brief history of this space, plus the 2022 summer book study choice

Neglect everything else

Choices Matter: What is your preferred coaching model for literacy instruction?

How to learn

Three questions about Leading Like a C.O.A.C.H.

Curiosity > Certainty

5 Important Articles on the Science of Reading

Tonight's Twitter chat: Leading Like a C.O.A.C.H.

Rigorous Reading

Four lessons I learned from Reading Recovery

Learning Sprints

To Wonder Instead of Know

True North

Podcast: A Conversation with Steve Barkley

Endorsing Leading Like a C.O.A.C.H.

When do you know it is time to drop a book and find another one?

Choosing hope over fear

Desperate Joy: Reflecting on my priorities after leading a school during a pandemic since 2020

The Possiblities of Failure

How much time for independent reading does your literacy curriculum allow for your students?

All These Wonders

What do you mean by "best practice"?

Rethinking our roles

Video: Introducing Leading Like a C.O.A.C.H.

Shots on goal

Guiding Readers Toward More Complex Texts

It isn't just about numbers

Instructional Coaching: Should teaching be "choreographed"?

Non-judgmental stance

Can a principal also be a coach? A conversation with Regie Routman

Can a principal also be a coach? A conversation with Regie Routman

Letting go as leadership

A Mistake Leaders Make When Developing Literacy Goals (and what to do instead)

Deep noticing

Teaching Readers is Complex

Expectations are everything

Leading Through Learning: Observing a Middle School Reading Lesson

Hunt for a feeling

The Literacy Curriculum: Buy it or build it? (or am I asking the wrong question?)

The Committed Sardine

Writing is Innovation

Conversation Cures

The Label Doesn't Matter. Your Beliefs Do.

The Wisdom of Lichens

Newsletter update for full subscribers