Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success

Literacy is a skill for all time, for all people. It is an integral part of our lives, whether we are students or adult professionals. Giving all educators the breadth of knowledge and practical tools that help students strengthen their literacy skills is the focus of Read, Write, Lead.
Drawing on her experience as a mentor teacher, reading specialist, instructional coach, and staff developer, author Regie Routman offers time-tested advice on how to develop a schoolwide learning culture that leads to more effective reading and writing across the curriculum. She explains how every school including yours can
Implement instructional practices that lead to better engagement and achievement in reading and writing for all students, from kindergarten through high school, including second-language and struggling learners.
Build Professional Literacy Communities of educators working together to create sustainable school change through professional learning based on shared beliefs.
Reduce the need for intervention through daily practices that ensure success, even for our most vulnerable learners.
Embed the language of productive feedback in responsive instruction, conferences, and observations in order to accelerate learning for students, teachers, and leaders.
In their own voices, teachers, principals, literacy specialists, and students offer real-life examples of changes that led to dramatic improvement in literacy skills and perhaps just as important increased joy in teaching and learning. Scattered throughout the book are "Quick Wins" ideas and actions that can yield positive, affirming results while tackling the tough work of long-term change.

• Becoming a Literacy Leader, 2nd edition: Supporting Learning and Change
• Best Practices of Literacy Leaders: Keys to School Improvement
• Visible Learning for Literacy, Grades K-12: Implementing the Practices That Work Best to Accelerate Student Learning (Corwin Literacy)
• Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
• A Principal's Guide to Literacy Instruction (Tools for Teaching Literacy)
• I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers
• DIY Literacy: Teaching Tools for Differentiation, Rigor, and Independence
• Leading Well: Building Schoolwide Excellence in Reading and Writing
• The Literacy Coachs Survival Guide: Essential Questions and Practical Answers, 2nd Edition
• The Administration and Supervision of Reading Programs (Language and Literacy Series)