Best Practices of Literacy Leaders: Keys to School Improvement

Bringing together leading experts, this book presents the principles of effective literacy leadership and describes proven methods for improving instruction, assessment, and schoolwide professional development. The book shows how all school staff--including reading specialists and coaches, administrators, teachers, and special educators--can play an active role in nurturing a culture of collaboration and promoting student achievement. Best practices are identified for creating strong elementary and secondary literacy programs, differentiating instruction, supporting English language learners, utilizing technology, building home-school partnerships, and much more. User-friendly features include case examples, guiding questions, and engagement activities in each chapter.

• The Administration and Supervision of Reading Programs (Language and Literacy Series)
• The Reading Specialist, Third Edition: Leadership and Coaching for the Classroom, School, and Community
• The Literacy Coach's Handbook, Second Edition: A Guide to Research-Based Practice
• Simplifying Response to Intervention: Four Essential Guiding Principles - an RTI Book for Professional Learning Communities (Ensure that Each Child ... Needed to Succeed in School and in Life)
• The Literacy Coaching Challenge: Models and Methods for Grades K-8 (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)
• Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success
• How to Plan Differentiated Reading Instruction, Second Edition: Resources for Grades K-3
• A School Leader's Guide to Excellence, Updated Edition: Collaborating Our Way to Better Schools
• Diagnostic Teaching of Reading: Techniques for Instruction and Assessment (7th Edition)
• The Will to Lead, the Skill to Teach: Transforming Schools at Every Level create a responsive learning environment