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What is the role of the Literacy Coach at FRC?

Literacy To facilitate the implementation of FRC’s vision in regards to literacy.

As a learner...

   -Completed M.Ed. with a focus on literacy as social justice. Thesis: What Makes Avid Writers? http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32030
  - Continue reading and attending conferences to keep current with the latest research
  - Meet with feeder schools and PTSD K-8 Literacy consultant to coordinate paractices
  - Work with admin team and other committees to develop school wide strategies and structures to facilitate
          literacy instruction and practice throughout the school and foster a literacy-rich school climate

As a school-level planner...
  - 
Write monthly newsletter to share literacy initiative and ideas
  - Participate in the PTSD Literacy Committee
  - Administer Fountas and Pinnell testing to determine literacy levels of new students in August / September and as they arrive throughout the year
  - Determine needs regarding student literacy challenges 
  - Work with Literacy Committee to plan and deliver PD sessions, deliver sessions to staff
  - Attend meetings re student concerns (at-risk, etc.)
  - Coordinate literacy lab groups and peer coaching models
  
- Assist content area teachers in finding additional resources (e.g. levelled texts)
  - Organize staff registration at conferences  

 As a coach...
  - work with a team to pilot and implement Reading is Thinking courses
  - work with students to publish a yearly literary journal of student work
  - Work with staff to introduce literacy strategies in the classroom, including: 
        - developing unit/lesson plans
        - providing mini-lessons/modelling
        - helping with student conferencing/ writing workshops
        - facilitating book clubs
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