South Carolina initiative carves out time for science and math coaches in schools
Brenda Black-Morrison is acoach, but not in football, basketball, or soccer. She is a science coach at a rural elementaryschool in Pacolet, S.C. As science coach, she spends her days moving from classroom to classroom, planning science instruction with teachers, observing science lessons, reflecting with teachers on lessons taught, sharing in teachers’ excitement about students’ science successes — and sharing in their disappointment when lessons do not go as planned. She models or co-teaches lessons, locates resources, downloads current research, and works with teachers on their learning — within the confines of a school day.
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