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=Role of the Reading Coach and the Coaching Cycle =


 * __Reading Coach's Role Needs Assessment __**

Take this Reading Coach's Needs Assessment to identify the roles that you are taking on at your school. 

The reading/literacy coach will serve as a stable resource for professional development throughout a school to generate improvement in reading and literacy instruction and student learning. 
 * __Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) - Reading Coach Model __**

A reading coach has been defined by Just //Read//, Florida! as one who helps others to recognize their instructional knowledge and strengths, and supports them in their learning and application of new knowledge and instructional practices. The goal of coaching is to improve the percentage of highly proficient readers and to decrease the need for reading interventions by coaching based upon data. Coaching promotes job-embedded learning, which is described by Wood & McQuarrie (1999) as “one of the most promising new approaches to professional growth in education.” Coaching provides ongoing, sustainable support to teachers. Depending on the needs of teachers and the goals of the school, coaching can be provided one on one, in small groups, by grade level, by department, or by skill level. 
 * __Just //Read//, Florida! Role of the Reading Coach__ **

In this article from The Learning Principal, the essential elements of a successful relationship include clarity, communication, and collaboration.
 * __ Clarifying the Coach's Role __**

In this chapter, excerpted from //The Literacy Coach: Guiding in the Right Direction,// Dr. Enrique Puig identifies 35 guiding principles for literacy coaches. Dr. Puig is the co-author of two essential works for Reading Coaches: //The Literacy Coach: Guiding in the Right Direction// (Allyn & Bacon/Pearson) and //The Literacy Leadership Team: Sustaining and Expanding Success// (Allyn & Bacon/Pearson). He is the former Director of the Florida Literacy and Reading Excellence (FLaRE) Center at the University of Central Florida and is the current Director of the Morgridge International Reading Center at UCF.
 * __ Guiding Principles for a Literacy Coach __**

In this report from the Carnegie Corporation/Annenburg Institute, high school literacy specialists and teachers acquired concrete tools for differentiating between the ability to read out loud and the ability to read for comprehension, between simply finding new information and linking new information to other ideas. They began creating sophisticated content standards for literacy. But the literacy professionals realized that these steps did not go far enough. Teachers needed a powerful infrastructure, one that addressed their teaching moves //in the classroom//, so that every teacher had the capacity to teach deep literacy skills.
 * __ Coaches in the High School Classroom: Studies in Implementing High School Reform __**

District's may use flexibility in applying the role of the reading coach to meet district needs. 
 * __ Flexibility of the Reading Coach per the FL DOE __**

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