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    Megin Charner-Laird

    Megin Charner-Laird (mcharnerlaird@salemstate.edu) is associate professor and co-coordinator, programs in educational leadership at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts.

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      Preparing the next generation of school leaders is an invigorating and ever-changing enterprise, but the past year and a half have brought more change and more of the fear and uncertainty change inspires than anyone could have anticipated (Superville, 2021). We, the co-directors and core faculty of educational leadership programs […]
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      While much has been written in the last decade about the need for disciplinary literacy instruction and its potential to support higher levels of student learning and communication (Fang & Coatoam, 2013; Hynd-Shanahan, 2013; Lee & Spratley, 2010; Moje, 2007, 2008, 2015; Shanahan, 2012; Shanahan & Shanahan, 2008, 2014), relatively […]
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      Effective and authentic communities of practice in schools have the potential to support teachers in improving their instructional practices around perennial challenges, such as improving the literacy skills of all students. But before they can achieve such goals, communities of practice take time to build, effort to sustain, and ongoing […]
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