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    3 ways to fund literacy coaching

    By Kiley Walsh Symonds
    October 2003
    Vol. 24, No. 4
    “I never thought about it that way.” Jan Knight hears that a lot as a literacy coach in Walnut Creek, Calif. As she models lessons, observes instruction, and coaches, Knight’s job is to help teachers re-evaluate how they’re teaching literacy and help them try new strategies. Districts investing in literacy coaches say Knight and other coaches are making a difference. Literacy coaches — classroom teachers who are released from teaching students to model lessons, observe classroom instruction, and coach teachers one-on-one or in grade-level groups — are a growing trend in the answer to a national call to focus on improving literacy, despite the fact that no current federal or California state funding is specifically designated to support coaches. In California, districts as large as

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    Kiley Walsh Symonds is the policy director of the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (BASRC). You can contact her at BASRC, 181 Fremont Street, 2nd floor, San F rancisco, CA 94105, (415) 348-5519, fax (415) 348-1340, email: ksymonds@basrc.org.


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    Kiley Walsh Symonds is the policy director of the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (BASRC). You can contact her at BASRC, 181 Fremont Street, 2nd floor, San F rancisco, CA 94105, (415) 348-5519, fax (415) 348-1340, email: ksymonds@basrc.org.


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