Spotlight
on Literacy
Student
Disposition: WILF
by
Rebecca McKay
Director, Literacy and Professional Development
On
the road again…
Recently on a site visit, I was lucky to participate in a debriefing session
with literacy fellows, coaches, and teachers new to the Cornerstone network.
The setting was in a Cornerstone Foundation school immediately following lessons
hosted by two teachers new to the profession. Starting their career in a Cornerstone
school a few years earlier, teachers Sarah Moylan and Jacqueline Hebert had just
demonstrated that there was no limit to the potential created by a school desiring
to bring focus to instruction. They were “new teachers” at Harris
Elementary just a few years ago. This year you will find teachers sitting alongside
a coach on any given Wednesday in Sarah and Jackie’s classrooms. As the
teachers and their students go about the business of reading, writing, speaking,
and listening, the coach explains the structures, rituals, and routines of the
literacy block. What a testament to the power of embedded staff development!
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LITERACY LEARNING: INQUIRING IN THE REAL WORLD
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It’s
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It’s about tapping
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colleagues.
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and examine how to build structures to support and spread the work relevant
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