Power Tools For Talking
Custom protocols enrich coaching conversations
By Learning Forward
Categories: Coaching, Collaboration, ImplementationFebruary 2015
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Resources for Adopting and Adapting Protocols for Adult and Student Work
| Resources for adopting and adapting protocols for adult and student work |
| School Reform Initiativewww.schoolreforminitiative.org Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse Tools www.literacycoachingonline.org/tools.html Project Zero’s Visible Thinking Routines www.visiblethinkingpz.org EngageNY Teaching Practices & Protocols www.engageny.org/resource/grades-3-5-ela-curriculum-appendix-1-teaching-practices-and-protocols Continuum of Protocols https://schoolreforminitiative.org/doc/continuum_discussion_protocols.pdf Specific Protocols used in this project Carousel brainstorm: For generating and displaying a group’s ideas on multiple topics. www.engageny.org/sites/default/files/resource/attachments/carousel_brainstorm_protocol.doc Collaborative assessment conference: For looking deeply at student work. www.schoolreforminitiative.org/doc/cac.pdf |
References
Ippolito, J. (2010). Three ways that literacy coaches balance responsive and directive relationships with teachers. The Elementary School Journal, 111(1), 164-190.
Ippolito, J. (2013). Professional learning as the key to linking content and literacy instruction. In J. Ippolito, J.F. Lawrence, & C. Zaller (Eds.), Adolescent literacy in the era of the Common Core: From research into practice (pp. 215-234). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Ippolito, J. & Lieberman, J. (2012). Reading specialists and literacy coaches in secondary schools. In R.M. Bean & A.S. Dagen (Eds.), Best practices of literacy leaders: Keys to school improvement (pp. 63-85). New York, NY: Guilford Press.
Ippolito, J. & Pomerantz, F. (2013/2014). Protocols as essential tools for literacy professional learning communities in the Common Core era. Massachusetts Reading Association Primer, 42(2), 44-55.
Peterson, D.S., Taylor, B.M., Burnham, B., & Schock, R. (2009). Reflective coaching conversations: A missing piece. The Reading Teacher, 62(6), 500-509.
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Categories: Coaching, Collaboration, Implementation
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