Coaching for Balance

About the Author

Foreward

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction
The Heart of Coaching

Section 1: The Job: The Many Hats of a Literacy Coach

Chapter 1
Checks and Balances: The Competing Demands of Literacy Coaching
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Chapter 2
Creating Your Own Environment: The Coach as an Individual

Chapter 3
Taking Care of Yourself: Conserving Your Personal Resources

Section 2: The People: Building Relationships

Chapter 4
The Organism and the Organization: Working With Individuals and Groups

Chapter 5
Taking Risks: The Necessary Discomforts of Change

Section 3: The Work: Stretching Ourselves

Chapter 6
Teaching Toward Independence: Teachers as Professional Learners

Chapter 7
Developing Trust: The Language of Classroom Visitation

Chapter 8
Assessment Literacy: Learning to Make Sense of Data

Section 4: The Reasons: Coaching Matters

Chapter 9
Educating Everyone: Looking at Difference Differently and at Ourselves Honestly

Chapter 10
The Emotions of Coaching: How Does It Feel to Be a Literacy Coach?

Epilogue

Appendix
Reproducible Forms

References

Index