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    Three simple secrets of school-based coaching

    By Juli Kendall
    January 2007
    Written on a sticky note stuck to the edge of my laptop are three phrases: Listen first; teach by example; be patient. These are three things I’ve learned as a school-based literacy coach. My notes on these simple but essential guidelines are a scaffold for the coaching I do. I wonder how coaches who are flung into this adult learning role without much preparation deal with the reactions of the teachers with whom they work. Many of us who coach have enduring memories of our first interactions with classroom teachers; indeed, our first early struggles are about as easy to forget as a bad case of stomach flu. Why, then, do so many education decision makers easily accept the idea that there exists a superhuman race

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    Teacher Leaders Network member Juli Kendall died in August 2006. She was a National Board Certified Teacher with 30 years of experience and had spent more than 20 years teaching and coaching in the Long Beach, Calif., schools. A four-year archive of her reading/writing workshop journals is available at www.middleweb.com

    This article first appeared on the TLN web site: www.teacherleaders.org.


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